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Old Tue Dec 11, 2007, 01:13pm
Mark Padgett Mark Padgett is offline
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Originally Posted by eg-italy
Well, I know that this will disconcert Mark, but the word comes from Latin (at least not from the French. ):

concertatio -onis f.: contest , strife, dispute
I am familiar with the "concertatio" (pronounced kon-cur-tay-tee-o) reference since I took two years of Latin in HS and two more years of it in college.

Don't ask me why.
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