----- Original Message -----

From: Piotr Gasiorowski

To: nostratic@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 12:44 AM

Subject: Re: [nostratic] Someone needs to take a trip off the list

Whoa, ye linguists. En bon français, "connaissance" ne s'écrit pas avec un "s" seul. In English at large, the spelling "cognizance" is certainly more common than "cognisance" which strikes me as a characteristically UK (& possibly Canadian) spelling (in a simple test, Google yields 58,900 hits for the former and 17,900 for the latter).

 

[PCR]

Perhaps we should acclaim you the list parliamentarian.

 

Quite right, of course, about **"connaisance".

 

I will not, à la Glen, claim that I have seen it "plus souvent". It was a simple typo.

 

 

Pat

 

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