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Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments (with șurubelniță)



On 2020-03-28, Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote:
>> >  
>> >> Reco meant Roumanian (a Latin language). Or does everybody
>> >> already know that?
>> >>   
>> >
>> > Yes, Romanian or Rumanian is Latin, but here in the context Latin is
>> > ambiguous. 
>> >  
>> 
>> My confusion stemmed from the fact I thought the correct word was
>> "Roumanian," not Romanian, which I took for a typo, exposing my
>> ignorance (which paradoxically seems to be increasing the more I know
>> (because the more I know the more I realize I don't)).
>> 
>
> Either spelling is used in Britain, and sometimes Rumanian.

You've retained those more Norman Conquest style spellings over there, I
think.


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