On Sunday 02 Nov 2014 22:03:13 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> 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?)

That's clearly baloney!

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Regards,
Mick