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Re: "There can be"

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Friday, April 11, 2008, 17:38
ROGER MILLS skrev:
> Mark Reed wrote: >> Ich kan' nicht JSTOR lesen. :( > Moi non plus........ >> >> So does the y in Spanish «ha + y» have the same origin as the y in >> French «il y a»? > > Yes. Supposedly < Lat. ibi 'there' IIRC. I think _y_ is used in "Don > Quixote" > > (I just discovered something weird: Control+hypen reduces the type size > and, I think, changes the font. (Mistake for Shift-hyphen) aargh. For a > while I couldn't figure out how to undo it. Double aargh. I hope this > msg is readable...........
It might just be that Rhodrese has forms like _yet_ < IBI EST. /BP

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