From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!cvl!cas
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: English
Article-I.D.: cvl.153
Posted: Sun Apr 17 13:18:24 1983
Received: Wed Apr 20 23:17:54 1983


   I would like to remind you all that there is no such thing as an
"English" word.  They *all* came from French or German (or Greek, or
Latin, or Japanese, or Martian...).  All of our "rules" are statistical
peculiarities.
			Cliff Shaffer
			...{mcnc,we13,seismo}!rlgvax!cvl!cas