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OP We were discussing the need to perform a ‘due diligence’ exercise today and I remembered that there is another meaning of the word diligence:
Diligence: n. A large stagecoach - French, from (carrosse de) diligence, speed (coach), from Old French, diligence, dispatch, from Latin diligentia, from diligens, diligent-, diligent.
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