by "Ed Cryer" <ed@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Mar 18, 2008 at 09:57 PM
"Johannes Patruus" <invalid@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Ed Cryer wrote:
>> How many Latin words have a "k"? Apart from Kalendae I can only think
>> of words taken from Greek; proper names like Karthago, and
>> philosophical terms like logike.
>>
>> Ed
>
> http://tinyurl.com/36wel3
>
> Patruus
There's something weird going on here. I mean "calendar", "Carthage",
"logic" etc. have all gone to "c" in English.
So why did the Romans use the unRoman "k"?
Ed
