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Subject:Re: French or Latin? (was Re: sans serif fonts) From:Peter Brown <pbrown -at- MKS -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 24 Jul 1997 12:16:14 -0400
Eric Haddock wrote:
> A couple people have said a couple different things. Is
> the "sans" in sans serif Latin or French?
According to Merriam Websters,
from Middle English saun, sans,
and French sans,
and Middle French san, sans
Modification of Latin, sine.
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