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On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 07:35:17AM -0700, Adam Walker wrote: > I'm trying to choose between two possible etymologies > for "in a huff" and I'm dithering between a native > derivation directly from Late Latin "inodiare" + VL > -icius</i> and an Old Provencial derivation as above. > At this point it all comes down to the "j". Why does the pronunciation of the <j> matter, though? It doesn't affect the derivation one way or the other . . . I don't know anything about Old Proven�al, but I would assume that the <j> was pronounced somewhere along the continuum from [j] to [Z]. -Marcos