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Originally Posted by Kunama
but the Middle English source is for Denier (the coin), from the word denarius relating to 'ten asses' ...... 
anyway, you guys are drifting off topic, lets get back to warming the Earth.
(If we were serious about doing everything to combat CC then we wouldn't be on the compooter using up electricity so much.) |
The third listed (although obsolete) meaning in SOED is also a Middle English source, and originally from Old French denier, being the coin as you mentioned.
Here's where an international keyboard woud be handy, because:
dénier - from Middle English/from French someone who denies, etc. (Note the acute)
denier - from Middle English/from Old French coin, etc. (Note the absence of the acute)
You know, I actually thought I should have paused and found a way to put that acute over the first
e of denier, but I figured no-one could possibly have a problem with
that ....
