On Feb 24, 2004, at 2:08 PM, mary whalen wrote: > > --- 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 > > Dear Mary, You are off on a good start, but to ERR is human... Ken