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Posted by: cheesestraws on 2024-08-24 15:15:13 Interesting, if a Latin derivative I think. More facetious than a serious suggestion :-D. "performare" is Church Latin, but not classical, and doesn't mean "to perform" but "to form thoroughly" or something like that. Think it got back into Church Latin from French, which is where English gets it from too. However, the combined ae thing doesn’t exist in American English…what is its proper name again? The sound is a diphthong, the written combination of the letters is a ligature. Think it's valid in AmE, it's just that nobody but me ever types it, really, and I mostly do it to be annoying.
Posted by: LaPorta on 2024-08-24 15:45:31 I more mean that anything that would have that has been rewritten in American. For instance, the British word orthopaedics is orthopedics here. Encyclopaedia is encyclopedia and so forth. I can’t think of (not that it might not exist) any words that have an ae next to each other in them.
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