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Re: easy question

Shane MiQogh ([email protected])



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Synonyms or are we talking about something else?
   
  Tu/vous There's an odd combination of the french language...

"Stephen A. Carter" <[email protected]> wrote:
  On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 10:21:06 +0100, Philip Newton wrote:
>You mean like French oeil/yeux, for example? They look pretty
>different, but AFAIK derive through regular sound change from singular
>and plural of the same Latin word (oculus/oculi?).

Great example. Yes, that's the kind of thing I had in mind.


-- Stephen Carter
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Nagoya, Japan




  


		
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