Re: Question for European Java users

zero wrote:

[me:]
> > More likely it shares a root with the extensive cluster of English
> > words like ordinal, ordinance, and order, which have senses hovering
> > around and between counting, (proper) placement, and regulation.
> > "Ordinary" does not seem to be part of that cluster.
> [...]
> Actually I believe it is. Ordinary is "of the order", meaning just like
> everything else.

You may very well be right. I was going by the OED from which it appears that
the ordin* words have entered English via either Old French or directly from
Latin. That might be a sufficient reason to claim that (in English) one ordin*
word was in a different cluster from another one, and that was the view I was
taking earlier, but -- having gone back for a second look -- I'm no longer
sure.

In any case, since we are talking about a French word here, the distinction is
immaterial...

-- chris


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