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Latin malus=bad, peior=worse,pessimus=worst
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Pejor...just a label for 'pejorative use', not a word itself > Not so sure about that... it wouldn't surprise me to find out that there is a similar word in French.
there may well be, but I'm betting with boronia on this -- it looks like an abbreviation for the F. equivalent of "pejorative sense".
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I had assumed, along with boronia, from its context that that was the meaning of Pejor.
And on consulting my "dictionaire" I find: pejorati-f -ve (adj) pejorative
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not trying to be ultra-picky, but I'm guessing that you consulted your dictionnaire (2 n's) :-)
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Sorry - can't afford 2 ns - it ain't chicken feed, you know!
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now, now
or - if I, too, cry poverty, would that be: ow, ow!?!?
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Sorry - can't afford 2 n'sBut Rhuby, this whole thread is about double-n tendering.
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Ackshully©, the Spanish is peor, not pejor. It comes from the latin, pejor. Mejor is the correct spelling for better/best in Spanish, latin melior and is the antonym of peor.
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Thanks - I stand corrected. And learned something today
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I believe that 'Pejor.' in the definition is just a label for 'pejorative use', not a word itself
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