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I looked up the word 'ennui' in my dictionary and found that it has a peculiar origin from French via the Latin phrase mihi in odio est "it is hateful to me". It's not an acronym. You can't really call it transliteration, can you? What's the story?
Thanks.
S. Beetle.
Last edited by Stag_Beetle; 02/12/2006 2:25 PM.
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