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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT Best way to compress files with digits
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On Sunday 02 November 2014 21:55:31 Alan McKinnon wrote:

> English is a heavily overloaded language and there's always more
> than one way to communicate something

Even the simplest cases usually have three words for the same thing: one from 
French, one from Latin and one from Anglo-Saxon. I won't even mention words 
that have come down from Old German and so on, but at least we don't have 
many words from Italian or Spanish. (Zucchini? What's that?)

-- 
Rgds
Peter