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[guido at gvr.org (Guido van Rooij)]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 02:15:00PM +0200, Arnaud Lebret wrote:
> Maybe you can find the same kind of thing in American|British English if
> you think of the difference between 'lamb' and 'mutton', for example. Do
> you know which language this difference is coming from ?

Mutton is problably imported from french (Mouton).
Lamb is the same as we use in dutch, so it might be that the origin is
germanic...but I'm not sure.

-Guido