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--- Adam Walker skrzypszy: > Does anyone know where the first "S" in despues comes from? The VL original > was supposedly depost or depositus giving French depuis, Portuguese depois, > Italian dopo and Rumanian dupa. Only Spanish has this extra "s". Is there > any identifiable historical reason or was it just Spanish whimsy. No idea. But an interesting phenomenon indeed. > Also did Latin apud spawn any childrean besides French avec from apud+haec? Not that I know of. In general, this is a very interesting site: http://www.orbilat.com/Linguistics_Contrastive/Function_Words/Origin_of_the_Prepositions.html Jan ===== "Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones __________________________________________________ Yahoo! Plus For a better Internet experience http://www.yahoo.co.uk/btoffer