"Dave Kearton" wrote in message
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From the Adelaide 'Advertiser'

The OED sees this etymology as less likely than the Romance language origins
from mediæval Latin words for oar and rudder, and by derivation, steersman,
through Portuguese and Spanish, to the French "pilote."
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Andrew Chaplin
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