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Originally Posted By: BranSheaThe 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?
Is this theatre of protest, or theater of the mind?
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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