[ichabod1]

I saw a documentary on this that had an interesting take. It said that we often have two words in English for the same thing, one German, and one French, but that the French variant usually is subtly different, adding a richness of detail to the language that many other languages lack. For example, well to take yours, smoke and fume. Smoke means one thing, fume basically means the same but has completely different connotations.

[Peter Libra]

Glad to have your comment, yes the French is more evocative, as we in Canada now well know (chuckle). I thought on seeing a reply, someone had picked me up on the word "Bourne". I scrambled to my 1968 Websters and it has ME as the origin, ie: old English. I will have to blame my old English school marm for that- she is long gone.

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