What makes ‘statue’ and ‘statute’ so alike?
Aug 30, 2021
2 minutes
A sharp-eyed reader spotted a typo in the Monitor’s May 31 issue. In a review of a book about Napoleon’s plunder of major artworks across Europe, the French general demanded “one hundred paintings, busts, vases or statutes” from the pope. The reader noticed that this, not . Why, he wondered, are these words so similar?
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