[Sca-cooks] Measurement Questions/OED

[tgl at mailer.uni-marburg.de]

<< The separation between French and English is not quite as great as
German and Japanese though.  If it was originally written in Basque and
I referenced the OED the point would be well and truly taken. ... >>

You are right. Sorry for my comment. The OED has the word in question,
under "boss (3)".

As to "boces" and "sommes", I might add that according to Scully's
glossary one somme was 52 litres in Paris.

Again: sorry.

Th.