History...
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Sep 18 12:00:01 EDT 1998
At 9:58 AM -0500 9/18/98, Dale M. Wheeler wrote:
>Mia culpa...
>
>As a result of typing to fast (combined with thinking backwards in Hebrew
>at the time), I said, as several have said privately, that history is
>shortened to
>h'story; obviously its shortened to hist'ry (the "shewa" taking the place
>of the "o", not the "i").
>
>I'll try to do better next time... (-:
Uh ... and while we're at it, are we writing Italian or Latin: i.e. "mia
colpa" or "mea culpa"? (-;
Carl W. Conrad
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