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Minor correction. "Speaking" sounded like Germanic to me, sprechen/spreken, and Merriam Webster confirmed it. The latin roots gave us "orate", "dictate", and "e
by mahmud 16y ago
Minor correction. "Speaking" sounded like Germanic to me, sprechen/spreken, and Merriam Webster confirmed it. The latin roots gave us "orate", "dictate", and "eloquence".
- a-priori 16y agoAh, yes, you are right about that. I don't know where I got the idea that "speak" was Latin-based.