El Desheredado?

calbert at hslboxmaster.com calbert at hslboxmaster.com
Thu Aug 16 15:12:39 CDT 2001


> Henry Mu wrote:
> 
> > I don't know about hight, but "encre" is "ink" en François.
> 
> Indeed.

Is there ANY realtionship between "anchor" and "encre"? 

just checked...the root is "A"ncre.....but I'll look again in the 
OED......

> 
> For those mastering French: two years ago French novelist Bernard
> Morlino wrote a nice novel (Les Fantômes de Nerval) about this really
> weird figure who went to walk with a lobster in the streets of Paris
> -- for which he has my eternal sympathy.

but wasn't that one of the Great Economists? I want to say 
Ricardo.....

love,
cfa



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