>> Earl Grey Grande - Bit of latin influence here surely. On 21/3/10, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed:
>Earl and grey are of Germanic origin. > >Grand is an interesting word - the more commonly used word for big in >classical Latin is magnus, as in magnificent, magnitude, Magnum Photos and >so on. The Romance languages developed from vulgar Latin, which preferred >more concrete terms for things, words with a bit of colour and punch and >magnus seems to have been a bit too abstract, so grandis was much more >common at the level of ordinary people. Yet somehow the Romance languages >retained the comparative and superlative of magnus - maior & maximus, rather >than those of grandis - grandior and grandissimus. > >Highly recommended read for anyone who's interested in such things: ><http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521734189> That's far too brainy for me. I'm thinking more like: <http://pective.com/pic/grande-starbucks-coffee-cup> -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ---------- http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
