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#121961 02/03/04 01:04 AM
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Finis and finish both entered English in 1400s. They both ultimately came from Latin, though the etymologists don't say so. And to say a word is derived from Latin and give it
a French pronunication is a bit inconsistent. I have never heard the final "s" pronounced as shown in the dictionaries.)


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HEY! Is that today's Word? Your post just made me go look, and sure enough, I didn't get it! Though I did get Mail issue 111. Very strange. Twice in recent months I've not gotten a word; and there was that week when I got an extra!


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One of the Great Names in Sports is Fennis Dembo. Fennis and his twin sister, Fenise, were so named by their mother as a declaration that these -- her tenth and eleventh children -- were her last.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/1997/weekly/catchingup/1124/


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Mercy--I wonder how many times they were called Dennis and Denise?


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at 6'6", they probably didn't call him Dennis Fembo more than once...



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When will "finis" be finis? If you click on "oday's Word"
at the bottom of the screen,"finis" is for the third time
given as "Today's Word".



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