From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!karn Newsgroups: net.misc Title: An interesting word derivation Article-I.D.: eagle.815 Posted: Mon Mar 7 20:40:27 1983 Received: Tue Mar 8 04:06:17 1983 I came across an interesting etymology for a word most of us are familiar with: "cretin". Its from the Latin for "Christian", via a French dialect. Interesting. I wonder how many other common words have such interesting roots.