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November 26th 15, 08:32 PM
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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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