Re: OT: Roman Calendar (was Re: USAGE: syllables)
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 14, 2003, 19:14 |
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En réponse à Nik Taylor :
>I wouldn't be surprised if _Quinctilis_ were an alternate, archaic,
>spelling convention. Not all words had fixed spellings in Latin, after
>all.
Of course. But I was replying to Mark's comment that the "correct" spelling
was *certainly* "Quinctilis". Well, it was *certainly* not so. Even if it
existed (and I never denied that, I'm only talking about Classical Latin
after all, not about Latin as it was written and spoken at the time of the
Roman kingdom), it *certainly* was not the usual spelling. Otherwise that's
the one people would learn nowadays.
Christophe Grandsire.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.
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