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On Tue, 13 Jun 2000 10:16:10 -0400, Walter Prager
<walter.prager@alcatel.com> wrote:

>daniel mcgrath wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> What are your comments on "sans" meaning "without", from the French,
>> as an English word?
>> 
>> daniel
>
>According to Merriam-Webster (http://www.m-w.com):
>
>                        Main Entry: 1 sans
>                        Pronunciation: 'sanz
>                        Function: preposition
>                        Etymology: Middle English saun, sans, from Middle
>French san, sans,
>                        modification of Latin sine without -- more at SUNDER
>                        Date: 14th century
>                        : WITHOUT <my love to thee is sound, sans crack or
>flaw -- Shakespeare> 
>
>(I guess if it's good enough for Will, it's good enough for me.)
>
>                        Main Entry: 2 sans
>                        Pronunciation: 'sanz
>                        Function: noun
>                        Inflected Form(s): plural sans
>                        Date: circa 1909
>
>(I've got to admit -- I've never thought of it as a noun.)
>
>                        Main Entry: sans ser�if
>                        Variant(s): or san�ser�if /san-'ser-&f, 'sanz-/
>                        Function: noun
>                        Etymology: probably from sans + modification of Dutch
>schreef stroke --
>                        more at SERIF
>                        Date: 1830
>                        : a letter or typeface with no serifs 
>
>Sans-serif is the most common usage (that I know of) of "sans" in the English
>language.
>-- 
And?

daniel