No, I said that your "Artificial Meter Booster" topic was bound to get nuked at a moment or another, not because of a definitive version or anything like that but because that's just the way we sadistic moderators always act with topics of that kind -- especially when you are the author. It was the same on the French version if you remember well ...
Yarp.
Connoisseur comes from the old French conoiseor. The verb "connaître" was then "conoistre", from the latin cognoscere. The English language integrated the word from the old French at the beginning of the 18th century, and it didn't evolve as it did in French.