On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 18:21:20 +0200 JLuc <jluc at no-log.org> dijo: >Item is latin, not english, isnt ? Originally Latin (adv., 'just so'), and probably further back to Indo-European. Its use in English as an adverb dates to 1398, and as a noun to 1561. I think that's long enough to call it an English word now. :)