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Re: bad leap day joke - lost data on Oracle
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Tom Brandt <[log in to unmask]>
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Tom Brandt <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 2 Mar 2000 08:47:21 -0500
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At 09:18 PM 03/01/00 -0500, Wirt Atmar wrote:
>Richard writes:
>
>Spanish took a slightly different course in its vulgarization of Latin. L's
>and r's are both "liquid laterals" and they too have a high cross-mutational
>rate, thus "bursa" became "bolsa" in Spanish, again meaning (money) bag, but
>now most commonly meaning "stock market", as in Bolsa de Madrid or Bolsa, S.A.

And "bourse", as in Bourse de Paris or Bourse de Luxembourg


Tom Brandt
Northtech Systems, Inc.
http://www.northtech.com

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