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- From: fr@compu.com (Fred Rump from home)
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- Subject: Re: Pest house
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.180542.22041@compu.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 18:05:42 GMT
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- ceb@dbrus.Unify.Com (Caroline E. Bryan) writes:
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- >lence" which means, in short, plague. "Pestilence" comes from Latin
- >"pestis", meaning plague. The English word "pest",
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- Medieval German also used the word from the Latin. Pest seems to be straight
- from the monks who wrote their stories in Latin.
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