Re:The compiler flag that time forgot
by TazeTSchnitzel on Monday May 04, 2015 @09:08PM
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Monks had a lot of influence on spelling. In French, they abbreviated the "ls" at the end of some words to "x", thus "animals" becoming "animax" (later "animaux", as others added a "u" to make the spelling fit the pronunciation better).
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'Connexion' is the one I have come across most frequently, and most of that was when an old colleague leant me a book he got as a child about engineering feats from the late 1800s and early 1900s (up to about 1940). They still used the 'x' instead of 'ct' when writing it, though it was British.