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Old November 26th 15, 09:32 PM posted to uk.railway,misc.transport.urban-transit,uk.transport.london
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Default London's Great Northern Hotel
On 26/11/15 12:03, Robin wrote:
The OED's oldest example of "build" as a noun (= "a building") is
attributed to 1387. It shows it as obsolete but changes in English
usage are often "back to the future"

I strongly suspect that it has been taken from German: Neubau, Tiefbau,
Umbau (a personal favourite - how many syllables does English need to
get close to that?) and so on.

Ian
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