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Saturday, July 17, 2010

Grice does 'history of language'

From M. Quinion's World Wide Words, today:

on 'taxi' -- originally


German "Taxe", a charge or levy.

"After the device became common in Paris, ...
the French created the term "taximètre" for it,
from "taxe", a tariff (why the
"e" should change to an "i" is unrecorded)."


----- About to create that record:


"Letter from Mme desGrieux to Mademoiselle LePratt,"

--- 'Are you coming by 'taxi'?
--- 'TaxE'!
--- 'taxi'!
--- Your French manners annoy me!

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