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To: Mike Darancette

There is a hospital in New Orleans called the Hotel Dieu. Hotel is the word for Hospital.


15 posted on 09/22/2013 4:00:58 PM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: sportutegrl

No, “hôtel” is french for “hostel”.

hôpital is “hospital”.

Note the carat above the ‘O’ in each word. It means that there used to be an S after it, somewhere in time.


20 posted on 09/22/2013 5:56:48 PM PDT by JoeTheGeorgian
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