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From http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=781363&category=REGION

Latin roots take hold for students
"Dead" language finds popularity at Shen, other schools in state
By TIM O'BRIEN
March 19, 2009

The language may be dead, but its pulse still beats. From the titles we give our doctors to a lawyer seeking a writ of habeas corpus, Latin is everywhere.

And surgo, which means to stand up or rise, is the root word for surge, which describes what has happened to interest in the tongue in recent years. Statewide, the number of students studying it leaped from 12,140 in 2003-04 to 15,299 last year.

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