Etymology (originally Re: C Bites (really, how to spell ))

[Richard Welty]

> 	Andrew Macpherson.	<andrew at stc.UUCP> writes:
> 
> Gentlemen, it's really very simple, the use of `x' in English derives
> directly from the etymology of the word:
> 
> connexion derives from latin: con- and nectere, nexum to tie.
> 
> Since this x in the gerund is rather rare, English has very few such
> words spelt with an x, whereas American tends to use x's frequently
> since it reduces the amount one has to write :-)
> ( hence `sox' == half-hosen, socks)
> 
and if the Boston Red Sox started up a farm team in Argyle, we could call
them the ...			:-) (sorry)

(actually, the two teams were originally called the Red Stockings and the
White stockings, but that is a matter for net.baseball, if such should ever
come to pass ...)
-- 
				Rich Welty

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			from "The Definitive Biography of P. D. Q. Bach"

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