From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhtsa!alice!danny Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: Re answer to Shakespeare pun puzzle Article-I.D.: alice.1443 Posted: Mon Jan 31 09:43:04 1983 Received: Tue Feb 1 03:02:48 1983 A minor point - English 'grave' and 'lie' don't "come from" German 'Grab', 'lu:gen', and 'liegen'. Rather the English and German words have common ancestors. Compare: French 'ami' doesn't "come from" Spanish 'amigo'; they have a common ancestor - they both "come from" Latin 'amicus'.