On Jun 5, 2005, at 10:21 AM, Cormac Lawler wrote:
On 6/4/05, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com>
wrote:
My daughter recently asked Danny why the word
'receipt' has a 'p' in
it.
Well, he gave a decent answer but I think he made it up out of thin
air.
That's the best that most of us can do, even very well educated and
smart people.
The p is silent as in psychology, or swimming ;)
C
The word combines two previous vulgate words, one for a list of
ingredients(receit), the other for receive (recipere). A receipt is
then a recitation of what you are the recipient of.