--- Philip Hart <philiph at SLAC.Stanford.EDU> wrote: > > > OT, why are there two "r"s in "occurrence" and one > in "appearance"? The word "occur" come from Latin "occurrere" and "occurrence" from "occurrentia" with double r's in both. English just doesn't end words in double r's (or any other double letters, usually). __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools