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To: Vicomte13
devolved from the same parent tongue or tongues

Maybe they devolved, but not much. BTW, the winning word in the national spelling bee was Ursprache, which we are now allowed to use as if it were an English word rather than German.

112 posted on 06/06/2006 8:32:53 AM PDT by RightWhale (Off touch and out of base)
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To: RightWhale

"Maybe they devolved, but not much. BTW, the winning word in the national spelling bee was Ursprache, which we are now allowed to use as if it were an English word rather than German."

Well, the 19th Century English linguists' equivalent word: "Edenic", is too easy to be a winning word in a spelling bee!


130 posted on 06/06/2006 7:36:50 PM PDT by Vicomte13 (Paris vaut bien une messe.)
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