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#133330 09/25/04 09:20 PM
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Going back, why 'riz' not 'ris' or is that 'rhiz'?


#133331 09/25/04 09:27 PM
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Because that's the way it's spelled. Why any spelling in preference to any other?

BTW, 'riz' outgoogles 'ris' 682 to 104, FWIW.


#133332 09/26/04 05:43 AM
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'riz' outgoogles 'ris' 682 to 104

Perhaps because riz is the modern French word for rice and ris is the Old French word for rice and more people post more things in modern French on the web than in Old French?


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Not when the google target is "spring is sprung" riz. Unless spring is sprung is modern French for 'to make your étoufée'


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google target

Touché.


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the rhizome's sprung, when the grass is rizen


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