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From: alderson@netcom16.netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: the "s" inflection of Spanish
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The plural <s> emerged in the Romance languages from their Vulgar Latin
ancestor, not from any outside influence.
-- 
Rich Alderson   You know the sort of thing that you can find in any dictionary
                of a strange language, and which so excites the amateur philo-
                logists, itching to derive one tongue from another that they
                know better: a word that is nearly the same in form and meaning
                as the corresponding word in English, or Latin, or Hebrew, or
                what not.
                                                --J. R. R. Tolkien,
alderson@netcom.com                               _The Notion Club Papers_
