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The computer screen tostare at hour after hour as your brain and eyes fight over which one is going to degenerate faster?
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It would seem to be, first, an example of the pig/pork, cow/beef phenomenon (e.g., "roast" is germanic, and "toast" is romantic; the Latin tostare meaning "to roast"*), and secondly, the influx of modern French terms when French cooking became de rigeur beginning in the late 18th century (braise, 1797; saute, 1813).
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The past tense of Latin torrere "to parch" was tostus, which became a new verb, tostare "to toast".
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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