Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site zeppo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!zeppo!mmc From: mmc@zeppo.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes.d Subject: Re: defenestration - (nf) Message-ID: <1087@zeppo.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Mar-84 09:58:51 EST Article-I.D.: zeppo.1087 Posted: Wed Mar 21 09:58:51 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 22-Mar-84 01:33:04 EST Sender: mmc@zeppo.UUCP Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany Lines: 7 #R:pitt:-53400:zeppo:8300001:000:193 zeppo!mmc Mar 21 09:58:00 1984 ...which, in turn, derives from the Latin "fenestra". The circumflex in French often indicates a disappearing letter, usually an 's'. Cf. fe^te < festum, mai^tre < magister, etc., etc., etc.