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Re: CHAT: measures (was: browsers)

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Monday, February 10, 2003, 20:33
En réponse à John Cowan <cowan@...>:

> > Apparently galon > Eng. gallon was the Normand version of jalon.
That's what I feared ;))) . The
> semantic distance between "milestone" and a unit of measure is > apparently > not too large. >
I wouln't have found it too large if the unit had been a distance unit. But a capacity unit? (would it have to do with sailing?) Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.

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