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Re: Active and Passive please help.

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 18, 2001, 15:50
Andreas Johansson wrote:

> BTW, what happened to the English cognate of Dutch "heten", German > "heissen", Swedish "heta" etc? I remember finding it increadible that > English lacks a verb of this meaning when I learnt it.
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