Hi Dierk,

On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 15:49:18 +0100GMT (11/12/2001, 22:49 +0800GMT),
Dierk Haasis wrote:

>> On a side remark: Shouldn't this be "Authentification"?

DH> Not according to Longman's DCE the OED - there is no such word. It
DH> goes back to the plural stem of the Latin "authenticare".

I would have thought it is "authentus, a, um" + "facere". (BTW since
when do Latin words have "th"? Wouldn't this be a Greek word?).

BTW I'm just guessing. f'up2tbot.

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