On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 09:44:20 -0000 (UTC) Curt <cu...@free.fr> wrote: > On 2020-03-28, Joe <j...@jretrading.com> wrote: > >> > > >> >> Reco meant Roumanian (a Latin language). Or does everybody > >> >> already know that? > >> >> > >> > > >> > Yes, Romanian or Rumanian is Latin, but here in the context > >> > Latin is ambiguous. > >> > > >> > >> My confusion stemmed from the fact I thought the correct word was > >> "Roumanian," not Romanian, which I took for a typo, exposing my > >> ignorance (which paradoxically seems to be increasing the more I > >> know (because the more I know the more I realize I don't)). > >> > > > > Either spelling is used in Britain, and sometimes Rumanian. > > You've retained those more Norman Conquest style spellings over > there, I think. > >
Mostly the 'our' stuff where you use 'or'. We do (as do you) actually still have a bit of Danish (son and daughter, from sen and dottir, nothing like the Latin forms). -- Joe