Re: OT: French/English etymology question: "sauf"/"save"

Padraic opines:

>"Douglas Koller, Latin & French"
>
>  > Mark questions:
>  > and I was wondering
>>  >if this were
>>  >related to the identical (somewhat outdated)
>  > meaning of English "save".
>
>  > I've always assumed so and therefore never
>>  researched it, but the OED
>>  says "yes".
>
>Yeah, and it's not outdated at all. All save one;
>I'll do it, saving that it's legal; contents
>sterile saving that packet is uncompromised.
Yeah, but I still use it, which hurls it into an Oscar Wildean
antiquity of total undudeness.

Kou

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