and what about ...

David K. Barnhart dbarnhart at HIGHLANDS.COM
Tue Nov 3 16:50:23 UTC 2009


This whole issue is clouded by the mish-mash of terms partly from Greek and
partly for Latin as well as all those terms from science compounds that
never appeared as such in pre-modern Latin or Greek.  And what about the
pseudo-Greek and pseudo-Latin, such as stewardae?



DKB



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