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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Mathieugp (talk | contribs) at 00:28, 10 January 2005. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

The way I scanned the dictionary has left this list with some really big holes... it's missing some really obvious words. If only I could think of them.  :) fabiform | talk 19:24, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)

How many of these newly-added words are really from Latin and not from French? RickK 00:13, 17 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion

I noticed this list uses various ways of commenting the origin of the word. I think we should standardize it and make it more "dictionary like". I suggest this one syntax:

Example:

Nation [Middle English nacioun, from Old French nation, from Latin natio, from natus, past participle of nascere, meaning "to be born".] (Compare contemporary French nation.)

I welcome all comments. There may be reasons not to go forward this way. I would certainly like to know before I start going over the list... ;-)

-- Mathieugp 05:36, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I think that's an excellent idea. Also, maybe we can take out multiple inflections of words (e.g. absurd, absurdism, absurdity) that clutter up the page. --Psp 00:50, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I agree. We should not have the multiple inflections of the same word as different elements of the list. -- Mathieugp 00:28, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
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