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Re: uneditable


  • Subject: Re: uneditable
  • From: Alex Zavatone <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 02 May 2013 09:57:01 -0400

And while we're off topic, for the native French speakers, little things in English can be so strange - because they are.

Take "Information", for example.

In English, the plural of information is information.  "Informations" isn't a word in English.  I'm not sure if this is because it's a collective noun, or just le plural or le singular are the same word.  Fun.

And will someone tell me where the British got "lef-tenent" from lieutenant, "mili-tree" from military and "med-sin" from medicine?

Of course, we Americans do say "zee-bra" when it should be zeb-ra, so not everyone has it right.

Ahh, the joy of it all.

Yes, so about that AppleScript…


On May 2, 2013, at 9:11 AM, Luther Fuller wrote:

> This is a more interesting topic than I thought it would be!
>
> I found the Macmillan Dictionary web page which allowed me to submit a new word candidate and submitted "uneditable".
>
> On May 2, 2013, at 3:04 AM, Marion Dickten wrote:
>
>> this is now getting absolutely off-topic, but I felt I have to add my five cents. I'm a German and live next-door to France, so to speak, and somehow I'd like to explain Yvan's answer that must seem absolutely odd to every native to the English language. He said:
>
> I lived next-door to France for awhile. Pirmasens and Zweibrucken, 1963 - 1966.
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