11.52, Qs: Etymology, Frequency Word Lists, Ling Posters

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Subject: 11.52, Qs: Etymology, Frequency Word Lists, Ling Posters

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Date:  Wed, 12 Jan 2000 13:36:43 +0000
From:  "Ronald E.Emmerick" <emmerick at uni-hamburg.de>
Subject:  "Etymologies are either obvious or wrong"

2)
Date:  Wed, 12 Jan 2000 16:20:41 +0100
From:  "Lidia Lluis" <Lidia_Lluis at sail-labs.es>
Subject:  frequency word lists for German, French, Spanish and Italian

3)
Date:  Wed, 12 Jan 2000 10:20:36 -0500
From:  Mark Turner <mturner at htech.com>
Subject:  Linguistic posters?

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Wed, 12 Jan 2000 13:36:43 +0000
From:  "Ronald E.Emmerick" <emmerick at uni-hamburg.de>
Subject:  "Etymologies are either obvious or wrong"

"Etymologies are either obvious or wrong". This is a saying I first
heard from my former teacher in Cambridge, the late Sir Harold Bailey,
who also knew its source. I made a note of it but cannot find it. I
thought it was an American linguist but I am not sure. It has been
suggested it may be Meillet, but no one has so far been able to give me
chapter and verse. It is not in the OED.

-
Prof. Dr. Ronald E. Emmerick
Hamburg University



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Date:  Wed, 12 Jan 2000 16:20:41 +0100
From:  "Lidia Lluis" <Lidia_Lluis at sail-labs.es>
Subject:  frequency word lists for German, French, Spanish and Italian



I am looking for frequency word lists for German, French, Spanish and Italian,
extracted from written texts.

Thanks.


-------------------------------- Message 3 -------------------------------

Date:  Wed, 12 Jan 2000 10:20:36 -0500
From:  Mark Turner <mturner at htech.com>
Subject:  Linguistic posters?

I'm in a new office and have some walls to decorate.

I'd appreciate hearing about posters or prints on any
linguistic topic: language family trees, IPA symbols,
language or dialect maps, grammatical diagrams,
early dictionaries, writing systems (Rosetta Stone?),
old phonetic instruments, or anything else.

Please mail me directly, and I'll post a summary of the
responses.

Thanks,

Mark Turner
mturner at htech.com

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