Is the term "disconsortion"?

[Mark Padgett]

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.

[mbyron]

Alas, like many Latin words, this one crept into English via French, in this case the obsolete French verb 'desconcerter'. Thank the Normans.

[eg-italy]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

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.

I had five years of Latin in HS after two years also in MS, so I easily beat you.

And, of course, we pronounced "concertatio" in a very different way: something like "con-cher-tah-tsee-o". Ecclesiastical pronunciation, they call it.

Ciao

[Adam]

Originally Posted by eg-italy

I had five years of Latin in HS after two years also in MS, so I easily beat you.

So it takes 5 years to graduate high school in the metric system?

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

So it takes 5 years to graduate high school in the metric system?

Maybe he was red-shirted? (a metric red shirt is kinda maroonish purple btw)

[eg-italy]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

So it takes 5 years to graduate high school in the metric system?

You know that one meter is larger than one yard, one kilogram is more than one pound, one liter is more than one pint. So we need one year more in HS.

Canadians say that they use the metric system, but I believe they are cheating.

Originally Posted by Dan_ref

Maybe he was red-shirted? (a metric red shirt is kinda maroonish purple btw)

No, no: our HS takes five years. And, of course, we don't say red-shirted: the real name of the color would be too long to say.