>>>>>Refrain... oh you mean you'll abstain from an impulse to say how many. :)
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>>>What's a 'frain' and why would you have to 're' do it?
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>>You telling me Spanish has no words beginning with "re", meaning "to do again"?
>>
>
>Not since the reconquista.

Charles

yesterday you mentioned the Languedoc region of France, I think. A friend (French teacher) informed me that it got its name from the other French people's referring to the gluttoral sound the inhabitants made: "la langue d'oc" or "the language where they go 'oc'" (bit like "the Knights that go Neep", I suppose :-)

On a similar vein, I understand that the word "barbarian" came from the Roman's disdain of their language, saying that they all go "bar - bar - bar".