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OP The logic of language. I remember from school having for at least a year great trouble with those two words.
I could do the most difficult ones easy but I kept confusing these two. I wrote lettre for letter and littel for little. Even now I sometimes hesitate. Here I've learned to look a bit into etymology and I see that indeed it makes no sense at all.
Little comes from Old English: -- lytel
Letter comes from Old French: lettre
Centuries ago they could have done a better job by making it littel and letter. Is it too late for that?
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted little-letter BranShea 11/23/07 04:55 AM Re: little-letter R. Eastcourt 11/23/07 05:27 AM Re: little-letter BranShea 11/23/07 07:38 AM Re: little-letter Zed 11/26/07 10:12 PM Re: little-letter BranShea 11/27/07 10:10 AM Re: little-letter zmjezhd 11/27/07 03:29 PM Re: little-letter AnnaStrophic 11/28/07 01:35 PM
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