RE: :what is the meaning of "ad hoc query"?

From: Henry Poras <Henry.Poras_at_ctp.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 17:16:05 -0500
Message-Id: <10682.122322@fatcity.com>

Actually, a lot of French words entered English during the Norman (shortened from Norseman) rule. You can still see the division between French/AngloSaxon (Germanic) ruler/ruled in some word pairs. A lot of animal names have German roots while the food they became are French: calf/veal, pig/pork, ox/beef, sheep/mutton. Neet stuff.

Henry

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From: Eric D. Pierce [mailto:PierceED_at_csus.edu] Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 3:51 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: :what is the meaning of "ad hoc query"?

On 15 Nov 2000, at 7:16, Suri, Deepak wrote:

Date sent:      	Wed, 15 Nov 2000 07:16:00 -0800
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> Ad Hoc basically means unplanned, or in other words "on the spur of the
> momment".

"ad hoc" is latin, = "for this". (for a specific purpose).

I heard from a historian that a lot of latin was brought into english language usage in the 17th century by clerical elites (priests, religious scholars). Latin was used in catholic churches until quite recently (20 years ago?). Also a lot of words from "old french" are in the english language, and some will appear to be very similar to latin words (or italian/spanish).

regards,
ep

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