Date:  Mon, 14 Nov 1994 12:01:29 -0500

From:  PPATRICK[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GUVAX.BITNET

Subject: Re: where did _this_ come from?



The "What cost x" may simple be special to math texts. In Jamaica in

the mid-1960s I encountered it in arithmetic books which I'm pretty

sure were English in origin. Maybe that's why it doesn't sound archaic

to me! think also of "what price freedom" etc...