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Grothendieck called "schemes" schémas in French. I find it strange we call them schemes. In fact, Grothendieck called them (pre-) schemas(this is an English word) in his talk(in English) at Proceeding of the international congress of mathematicians at Edinburgh in 1958. There is an English word schema which means almost the same as French schéma. I think English words schema and scheme have different meanings and nuances although they are similar. So who first called Grothendieck's schéma scheme in English? And why he did not call it schema?

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