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Re: SV: API for RDF: locutor

From: Graham Klyne <GK@Dial.pipex.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 15:32:20 +0000
Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000308152957.00bb9100@pop.dial.pipex.com>
To: "Greg FitzPatrick" <gf@medianet.org>
Cc: <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
At 01:19 PM 3/8/00 +0100, Greg FitzPatrick wrote:

>Might I ask the origin of the word "locuter"?

 From my Oxford English dictionary...

locution n.
   1 a word or phrase, esp. considered in regard to style or idiom.
   2 style of speech.
   [Middle English via Old French locution or Latin locutio from loqui 
locut- 'speak']

Neither 'locuter' nor 'locutor' are listed.

#g


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