Re: OT: the euro & 01.01.02 (was NATLANG/FONT:)

Anton Sherwood wrote:

> <dîme> is the French equivalent of `tithe', and so was a living word in
> Jefferson's time; perhaps he picked it because it's conveniently short
> and had no English meaning.
It is in fact recorded in Middle English in precisely this sense.
However, I think that Jefferson thought of it as meaning "tenth"
generally, rather than "tithe" specifically.

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