Paul Isambert wrote :
(long snip) >> Philip Taylor wrote (in part) : >> Surely it is not possible that in the current (2001) edition, the >> distinction between Old French and French has been lost in >> the etymologies ????? > > That would be quite surprising. I am going to take that up with the Editors. > > So you could say ‘mayday’ was borrowed from pseudo-French. Agreed. > (Sorry for the off-topic-ness of all that.) Moi aussi :-) ** Phil. -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
