Readers acknowledge other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific conceptsThe words for most nationalities remain reasonably fixed across different languages – most words for English begin Eng- or Ang-,most words for French begin Fra-. But the words for “German” appear random: allemand (in French), Deutsch (German), or nemetski (Russian),tedesco (Italian). Why so?Richard Williams, Kingston upon ThamesContinue reading...
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