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From: Chaswe@aol.com
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Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: Nymphet
In a message dated 03/04/2004 18:19:13 GMT Standard Time, chtodel@cox.net writes:
perhaps some of us know why he, as a Francophone, did not come up with
nymphette." Instead he spells it the American way, on the model of "cigaret," which gives a curiously masculine effect at first sight.
The word: "Nymphet, f, a little Nymph", is thus defined in An English Dictionary, by E.Coles, printed for Peter Parker, London 1685.
Perhaps that's why he decided to spell it the American way.
Charles Harrison Wallace