SC - Mock Sturgeon-Final results-long

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Robert Beaulieu and Charles McCN wrote:
> 
> Charles McCN wrote:
> >
> > Fact (usu fact-us, fact-um, etc) is latin, for fait (fr. = made, done)

Um, don't you mean fait (made, done) is French for the Latin fact -us,
- -um, etc.?

> > The fact bit comes into english, eg manuFACTure (lit make by hand - manu)
> 
>         Agreed!!!
>         Now what about the origin of "contre"?
> 
>                 Lord Robert de QuelQuePart
> 
>         P. S.: I assure you that it means conter (oc or look alike).

The root contra, variations of which are found in Latin and all the
Romance languages, means "against", as in counteract, counterpoint, and,
of course, counterfeit, which last is generally used to mean
"artificial". I would suggest a literal translation of "made against",
meaning "made in lieu of". 

Adamantius
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