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Thread poster: Patricia Baldwin
Patricia Baldwin
Patricia Baldwin
United States
Local time: 00:52
Spanish to English
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Sep 7, 2007

Did you know...?

Mortgage. The mort part of mortgage is the same syllable that appears in mortify, rigor mortis, and mortician. Yup, it's all about death, French (and ultimately, Latin) style, but a mortgage (literally "dead pledge") was so called originally because it was absolute: the property was dead to the lender if the debt was paid, and dead to the borrower if it wasn't.



And...

The Quick and Dirty Grammar Tips

For those tra... See more
Did you know...?

Mortgage. The mort part of mortgage is the same syllable that appears in mortify, rigor mortis, and mortician. Yup, it's all about death, French (and ultimately, Latin) style, but a mortgage (literally "dead pledge") was so called originally because it was absolute: the property was dead to the lender if the debt was paid, and dead to the borrower if it wasn't.



And...

The Quick and Dirty Grammar Tips

For those translators that also teach....here's some grammar with a twist

http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/default.aspx


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lingomania
lingomania
Local time: 17:52
Italian to English
Love it Sep 11, 2007

Love this thread to...........ehm "death"!!
Thax for the twisty thing.

Rob
 


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