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Whats the derivation of the word “Encarta”?

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Whats the derivation of the word “Encarta”?

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I feel pretty sure it’s from “carte,” French for map. (Mapmakers are called cartographers, for instance.) Encarta, MSN’s massive online encyclopedia, HAS a worldful of great maps; you could also say that the structure of an online encyclopedia is a branching-tree system of mapped information.

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