On 12/10/2012 18:49, Sampo Syreeni wrote:
..
but we seem to be hitting some interesting ones at last: my latest one
was "ossuary". Why precisely a language should have to retain such forms
and why somebody should inject a word like that into the vocabulary
escapes me. But once again it's pretty as a flower.
Nice example. It is far from being a one-off. We have many words ending
in -ary, from which one can see the pattern of meanings:
reliquary
antiquary
aviary
seminary
bestiary
mortuary
library
All come to us from Latin via French - or we invented them following the
same roots. And not to be confused with all the words ending in -ory ...
and -ery ...
Richard Dobson
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