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Is, or is there not, a connection between hibernate and winter? I can't pull out a definitive answer from all the posts... thanks! :0) There's no etymological connection.
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Okay, all gobbledygook aside, what is the Final Answer?
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." [Arthur C. Clarke]
As tsuwm said earlier: if you're asking about semantics, yes they are related. And, as goofy said a little later on: if you're asking about etymological connection, no.
I have been "corrected" by my students for pronouncing them incorrectly...
Yeah, prescriptivism is a female dog, ain't it. I've stopped correcting most people who pronounce often with a t or err as air. As Faldo said elsewheres: "shift happens".
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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As Faldo said elsewheres: "shift happens". actuarially, that's been said around these parts, early and often, by Max (y'all should read some of these old threads!)
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