Cygwin Pronunciation

Gerald Combs gerald at ethereal.com
Wed Aug 10 14:11:46 CDT 2005


Jason Clinton wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 August 2005 11:40, you wrote:
> 
>>Guess I won't be having Gyros for lunch...
> 
> 
> 'Gyro', 'cygni' and 'cygnus' are Greek; not English.

Gyro and Cygnus are both in the Merriam-Webster, Dictionary.com, and
Wiktionary dictionaries of the English language (I don't have access to
the OED).  Does that not, by definition, make them English?

Cygnus and cygni both have Latin etymologies, BTW.



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