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Re: Polishing the carbs

To: "scott s." <75270_3703a@csi.com>
Subject: Re: Polishing the carbs
From: Dave Massey <105671.471@compuserve.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 07:56:01 -0500
Cc: triumphs@Autox.Team.Net iA3CxFKB001937
Message text written by "scott s."
>In 1800's correspondence, it was common to see noon written as "12 M."
For some reason we got away from that.
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Possibly because the french word for noon is midi.  The spanish word is
mediodia.  I would think that the latin word is something along those
lines.  It was tres chic back then to use the french influenced words back
then.  Heck, a serious portion of our lexicon comes from french.  It came
over with William the Conqueror.

Dave

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