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16799: Coates: Re: 16798: Kathleen: Cap Haitien (fwd)
From: Carrol Coates <ccoates@binghamton.edu>
My sense would be merely the matter of historical evolution of French
orthography: in the 17th cent. and before, "francois" was the spelling for
what is now "francais"--and the pronunciation was the same by the late 17th
cent. and later. By the late 18th, people may have variously used either
spelling.
Carrol F. Coates
Binghamton University--SUNY
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