- From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:06:57 -0400
- To: "Booth, David (HP Software - Boston)" <dbooth@hp.com>
- Cc: "Williams, Stuart (HP Labs, Bristol)" <skw@hp.com>, "wangxiao@musc.edu" <wangxiao@musc.edu>, W3C-TAG Group WG <www-tag@w3.org>, Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>, Jonathan A Rees <jar@mumble.net>, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
Booth, David (HP Software - Boston) scripsit:
> I think you meant "racine" instead of "radix". And BTW, I did not
> coin the term "racine", I got it from CWM code that TimBL checked in
> on 29-Dec-2001:
Racine or radix (or radish or even licorice, for that matter), they're
all roots to me. And even the OED finds only one citation for "racine",
from line 4881 of the anonymous part of the Middle English (around 1400)
translation of the French _Romance of the Rose_.
In modern spelling:
For of each sin it is the root.
Unlawful lust, though it be sweet,
And of all evil the racine.
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John Cowan http://ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
We want more school houses and less jails; more books and less arsenals;
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leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of
the opportunities to cultivate our better natures. --Samuel Gompers
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