From: John McCormac (jmcc at domain hackwatch.com)
Date: Mon 01 Oct 2001 - 23:03:44 IST
On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Paul Jakma wrote:
>
> Aside: "gratis" is dutch for free, which might explain why belgian's
> use it. though it surprises me they would, as the french speaking
> belgians are terribly disdainful of anything vlaams or dutch.
Surely it has a Latin (or Greek) origin? Most of these words have Latin
origins.
Regards...jmcc
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