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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 19:54:12 -0300
From: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello <jansy@aetern.us>
Reply-To: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello <jansy@aetern.us>
Subject: Tessellated or Tesselated? Misprints?
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From: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello
To: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 7:50 PM
Subject: Fw: Fw: Fwd: RE: Humbert's pedophilia on film
Dear List,
Sandy Drescher observed that the word "Tessellated", from the "etymologic note
in Webster's On-line explains the unexpected-to-both-of-us double l's:
Etymology: Late Latin tessellatus, past participle of tessellare to pave with
tesserae, from Latin tessella, diminutive of tessera - :to form into or adorn
with mosaic".
I checked the spelling in the Michaelis and OCE and confirmed Sandy´s find. The
is, indeed a missing "L" ( a distaster?) in my copies of "Ada" ( Penguin,
Vintage, Library of America )
The missing L appears even in "Adaonline" and in Brian Boyd´s annotations.
In ADA:
Dolly, an only child, born in Bras, married in 1840, at the tender and wayward
age of fifteen, General Ivan Durmanov, Commander of Yukon Fortress and peaceful
country gentleman, with lands in the Severn Tories (Severnïya Territorii), that
tesselated protectorate still lovingly called 'Russian' Estoty, which
commingles, granoblastically and organically, with 'Russian' Canady, otherwise
'French' Estoty, where not only French, but Macedonian and Bavarian settlers
enjoy a halcyon climate under our Stars and Stripes.
I cannot imagine that the "missing L" resulted from faulty revision, the mistake
is too regular in the various copies and editions of ADA.
Was it omitted on purpose?
Jansy
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