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absinthebri
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Latin, Greek... There are many ways of saying "not English". Many English words may be Latin- or Greek-derived but they're not actual Latin or Greek. Unlike many medical terms.
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Yamaguchi Shogun
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Aldrew
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To take you all back a couple of years. Page 3...
"Elephants can't jump" Ture. The reason for this is that they walk on tip toes. You try jumping when doing that...
"A ducks quack doesn't echo" I think you'll find it DOES. http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/acoustics_world/duck/duck.htm |
mince-inside
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Duck quack does echo. I have studied lots of birds and these are brilliant mime artisits, what they actually do is quack once and then mime to the echo fooling you to think there is no echo.
Quite clever of the wee chaps.
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absinthebri
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"Duck" is an anagram of "decimal".
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scotsboyuk
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On 2004-09-21 11:05:44, methylated_spirit wrote:
absinthe: its an ENGLISH word. MOST english words are derived from latin.
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English is made up of words derived from not just Latin; they also derive from Greek, French, German, Norse, Gaelic, Welsh and various other 'regional' languages.
It could be argued that English ultimately derives from the language of the Phoenicians since it is there alphabet that was the basis for the Latin alphabet.
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kimcheeboi
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On 2004-09-21 11:05:44, methylated_spirit wrote:
Jabe: thats a good point, thanks for clarifying.
absinthe: its an ENGLISH word. MOST english words are derived from latin. Now go away, if you have nothing else to say on the matter. You have said it a thousand times.
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just like mucopolysaccharidosis is a string of Latin words but it is an ENGLISH medical term, methys is right.
And for those of you that are vocabulary-challenged, (  ) its like this:
Streetcar= street + car
streetcar is still a word.
crossroad = cross + road
crossroad is a word.
Or are you just trying to be difficult, @absinthe?
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Latin itself uses compound words, in fact most languages do. Aquaduct, for example, is made up of 'aqua' (water) and 'duct' (conveyor) and describes a structure used to transport water from one place to another. Seperate words are often used to form more descriptive terms, it is quite amazing how many words are composed of more than one word.
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mince-inside
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@scotsboy you've now got me thinking what's the sortest word that is made up from two!...
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methylated_spirit
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hehe i've started a wordy debate, and seeing as so many people have posted their opinions, is it a mass debate or a massdebate?  
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absinthebri
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And for those of you that are vocabulary-challenged, ( ) its like this:
Streetcar= street + car
streetcar is still a word.
crossroad = cross + road
crossroad is a word.
Or are you just trying to be difficult, @absinthe?
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I can't find either streetcar or crossroad in my ENGLISH dictionary. They must be in there somewhere... |
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streetcar is not a word is it? crossroads is....... not in the UK perhaps though 
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On 2004-09-22 08:20:38, mince-inside wrote:
@scotsboy you've now got me thinking what's the sortest word that is made up from two!...
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dunno they all seem quite long  frostbite is the shortest I can think of but there's gotta be shorter ones
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absinthebri
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On 2004-09-22 10:36:54, Vlammetje wrote:
streetcar is not a word is it? crossroads is....... not in the UK perhaps though
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Streetcar is not known in British English (I think). We, like the Dutch, use tram.
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Vlammetje
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oh i didn't see that 
hair-brush.... hmm same length as frostbite 
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methylated_spirit
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The key phrase here is "in common usage"
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