Re: [ImmoderateHeroQuest] Nothing to do with: Hamsters (but that won't stop us)

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_VRj0TNzyWqpOJ0uZpZv_dBIa5AQ-a6sxEm2jcxAi1bgW384v5lcA8MFu4X2CKeSwj8M>
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 23:58:50 +1200


At 12:34 PM 4/6/2005 +0100, you wrote:
> > Latin doesn't use Z so they wouldn't have an "izare"
> > form. The
> > closest is the post classical transformation of t
> > (as in Latin and Gratis) to z (as in Lazio and
> > Grazie).

>Really? I thought that looked a bit odd, but put it
>down to my Latin being rusty. Which still leaves the
>question of why in French it became an S?

Because they borrowed it from the latin form.

--Peter Metcalfe            

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