Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 / ST 1.0; site saber.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!decwrl!sun!saber!msc From: msc@saber.UUCP (Mark Callow) Newsgroups: net.garden,net.consumers Subject: Re: Re: Grass Message-ID: <1752@saber.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 20:56:20 EDT Article-I.D.: saber.1752 Posted: Thu Aug 22 20:56:20 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 06:33:41 EDT References: <10695@rochester.UUCP> <449@nbires.UUCP> <2123@iddic.UUCP> <466@nbires.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Saber Technology, San Jose, CA Lines: 12 Xref: watmath net.garden:734 net.consumers:2848 >Bob Bruck: > ...but I prefer to think that the word lawn had it's You may prefer to think what you like. I prefer to believe Webster's. > most recent derivation from the (English?) fabric "lawn", which probably had > the same Latin derivation as "launder". A word's derivation can't change. That would be akin to changing your biological parent. You (it) comes from where you come from. -- From the TARDIS of Mark Callow msc@saber.UUCP, sun!saber!msc@decwrl.ARPA ...{decwrl,ucbvax}!sun!saber!msc, ...{amdcad,ihnp4}!saber!msc