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Re: The Birds and the Bees of Gender

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 30, 1999, 19:09
dunn patrick w wrote:
> Although I always thought "cattle" came from the same root as "chattle,"
It does! Cattle came into our language thru Norman French, while "chattel" came thru Parisian French, nicely demonstrating the ca --> cha sound change that occurred in Parisian, but not Norman, French, also demonstrated in candle and chandelier. -- "It's bad manners to talk about ropes in the house of a man whose father was hanged." - Irish proverb http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-name: NikTailor