Re: Weekly Vocab 3
| From: | David Starner <dvdeug@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 15, 2003, 22:01 |
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On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 02:08:54PM -0400, Robert B Wilson wrote:
> <skipping reason='what in angamando is "argot" (my american heritage
> dictionary is still awol...) and how did such a strange
> looking word get into english?'>
www.dict.org has some dictionaries online, primarily a 1913 Webster and
a dictionary made by Princton AI researchers. Needless to say, it's from
the French (the Webster says "Of unknown origin"), and can be pronounced
with or without the final t.
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