OT: Errors in Reporting

[Kathleen E. Miller]

At 10:36 AM 3/25/2004 -0500, you wrote:

>Quibbles are fine. My degree's in History, so I only know what the 
>dictionaries tell me. And in this instance the word wasn't in the OED and 
>AHD4, RH and M-W all had something different. Random House said it was 
>from Greek iota. M-W said it was "perhaps alteration of Italian otto 
>eight" and AHD4 said it was an
>Alteration of octo– " which lead to looking up octo which has "Greek 
>okta-, okt- Latin octo-" and "Greek okta-, okt-, okt- (from okt) & Latin 
>octo-, oct-, from octo ." So is it safe to say they're "related by 
>derivation, borrowing, or descent."


Kathleen E. Miller