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Philip Newton ([personal profile] pne) wrote2010-12-29 10:59 pm
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The things you learn: choose/choice

I would have thought that choose and choice would be related, but they’re only related distantly: choose is Germanic (related to German kiesen/auserkoren; Kür, etc.) while choice is Romance (though ultimately from Germanic as well).

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