Pierre Abbat scripsit:
> I looked that up in the OED. The whiting is merlan in French, merlangus in
> Latin, which is probably of Germanic origin.
WordNet is a useful resource for this sort of thing.
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
--Douglas Hofstadter