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by D. Michael McIntyre-3 :: Rate this Message:

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On Sunday 05 July 2009, Chris Cannam wrote:
> We should probably throw in the odd Couleur and Colore class as well,
> just to increase our linguistic coverage.  Sorry, couverage.

I could add that using "Color" already expands our linguistic coverage
considerably.

Color.  I just said that in Romanian.  Color.  That one was Latin.  Color.  
That one was Spanish.  Color.  That one was Provençal.

> > (As far as that goes though, in the 18th century we changed "colour"
> > into "color" and you changed "curb" into "kerb."
>
> We have both curb and kerb.  Kerb is a noun, curb is a vurb.

What, your drivers never kerb your tires?  (Oh drat, I mean your tyres.  
That's another one where our spelling is older, incidentally.)
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D. Michael McIntyre

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