descendents

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>Larry, you've no doubt also noticed that a growing number of people
>don't know the difference between English "ambience" from Latin and
>English "ambiance" from French.
>
>-Wilson
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
So that's it!  I wasn't aware of the difference:  just thought people were
giving "ambience" a French pronunciation.  They were, as you point out,
usually mistaking the meaning.
AM


>On 6/15/06, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
 >> >
>> Maybe they figured that's the difference between "descendents" and
>> "descendants".  Or not.
>>
>> LH
>


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