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Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments (with șurubelniță)



On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 09:44:20 -0000 (UTC)
Curt <curty@free.fr> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 

Mostly the 'our' stuff where you use 'or'.

We do (as do you) actually still have a bit of Danish (son and daughter,
from sen and dottir, nothing like the Latin forms).

-- 
Joe


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