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From: ftilley@indirect.com (Felix E. Tilley Jr.)
Subject: Re: List....Old English
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I remember reading a book on the history of English, I believe the 
author's name was Baugh.  He said a professor of Old English 
gave a task to some graduate students.  They were to ramdomly pick
2000 words from an Old English dictionary, and see how many had
modern decendents.  The students found 650 out of 2000.  That's a
big loss.  But would it be different with other languages?  

I don't know.  What are your thoughts?

Felix Tilley
ftilley@indirect.com

