RE: [ImmoderateHeroQuest] Re: Hamsters

From: Jane Williams <janewilliams20_at_YSMaRJ1YAgaYo-14kb_9KnPrVHYTvbI7pOPql7SxgJIy-E0CalNSVSsE829_g>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 19:08:34 +0100


> > while "ise" is the
> > French version which comes from the Latin "izare". I wonder why the
> > French changed the Z to an S...?
>
> So no one would mistake them for Americans? (must be the
> French- Canadians behind it I guess)

While that does sound like something the French would do, I suspect they'd have had to be remarkably foresighted (by a thousand years or so) to do that to their language while it was still in the process of evolving from Latin.            

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