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Re: Possible new name for "deity"



On Mon, Feb 23, 1998 at 11:34:05PM +0100, Vincent Renardias wrote:
> 
> On 23 Feb 1998 bruce@va.debian.org wrote:
> 
> > 	trove

> > Does this have an unfortunate meaning in any language other than English?
> > The only negative association I can find is that "trover" is a sort of
> > replevin, but only lawyers and logomaniacs would make that association.

> It's only "1 letter away" from the French "find" (troUve), but it
> certainly isn't a problem.

As well as 'trovo, trovi, trova', different conjugations of find in
Italian.
 
I can't think of any negative connotations of this...

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David Welton                          http://www.efn.org/~davidw 

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