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Re: Language slipping?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 22 Dec 1999 20:26:51 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, James Simpson writes:
> Just my 2 er, uh, I was trying to be cute, but I can't think of the French
> word for cents.
Try "centimes" - a centime is 1/100th of a franc.
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| (...) Most of the words in English that refer to "basic" things or actions have a French counter part; the English words are generally considered the baser, informal, or perhaps "lower-class" of the two, while the the French words for the same thing (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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