Slavic vs. Slavonic

[MIYAMOTO Ken]

Hi,

I'm just curious of the origin of these two variants. Why did the
US get "slavic" while "slavonic" is used in Britain?

Ken

On Sun, 4 Jan 1998 20:54:34 -0500
Robert Beard <rbeard at bucknell.edu> wrote:

>"Slavonic" is the British term.  "Slavic" has always been the term
>used in the US and is also used by some British specialists.
>


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Princeton, NJ, USA
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