[PLUG] Alea jacta est*

[Denis Heidtmann]

He was likely a linguist.

On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 2:29 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:

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> *Latin, commonly translated as 'the die is cast.' In fact, the English
> expression refers to 'alea' as 'die' (one of a pair of dice), but the
> Romans had no dice; the alea was a game piece that was thrown during
> play, but it wasn't actually what we think of today as a die. And
> while I'm at it, what idiot decided that the plural of die should be
> dice?
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