Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/31

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Subject: RE: [Leica] OT - how to spell 'lens'
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 12:47:33 -0500
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At 10:59 PM 1/30/2001 -0500, Dan Cardish wrote:
>Occasionally people will say something such as, "The camera design hasn't
>changed a whit since 1957".  Is this derived from "nawiht" in the Old
>English expression?

"whit" derives directly from Old English.  "Nawhit" is the negative.

Marc

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