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From: tcrnlag@ucl.ac.uk (Leia)
Subject: Re: English importation of words (was Re: Is '#' a "pound sign" or what?)
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Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 05:00:35 GMT
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In article <4hi911$qi5@news4.digex.net>, jav@cpcug.org wrote:

> In <1996Mar4.144005@vms.ocom.okstate.edu>, chorley@vms.ocom.okstate.edu
writes:
> 
> >I would imagine "fe^te" came from a German "Feste"
> 
> So then "Ein Feste Burg ist Unser Gott" means "God has a party when he 
> comes to town"?
> 
>      -------------------------------------------
>      -----  John Varela     jav@cpcug.org  -----
>      -------------------------------------------

And then it's NOT from the French word fete?  (Circumflex over the first
'e' of course!) 

L.  (who last had French 8 years ago...)

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