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From: msc@saber.UUCP (Mark Callow)
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>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
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