Thread: Is the term "disconsortion"?
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Old Tue Dec 11, 2007, 01:24pm
mbyron mbyron is offline
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Alas, like many Latin words, this one crept into English via French, in this case the obsolete French verb 'desconcerter'. Thank the Normans.
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