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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: db Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: Re: An Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 09:37:57 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 11:37:57 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="ced161979ae62de1592dd71f1841cd9d"; logging-data="1762646"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19PCMMvGZyJ1weAvZPI0jNCHSngezCYAXE=" User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3OvsH2enjMwOgRvTG3X9MnvrcoM= Bytes: 1476 On Sun, 28 Apr 2024 12:45:20 +0300, Mikko wrote: > On 2024-04-28 09:25:14 +0000, db said: > >> There is an old English use of "an" for "if". Where does this come >> from? I can't think of similar forms in German or Danish or Latin. > > It could be English "when". Or it could be the Swedish "om". But perhaps > it is something else. The "om" (also in Danish) comes close and might be the relative of "an". M and n get confused a bit. I remember the name Willian used in Brazil. -- db