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Page 2 of 2 < 1 2 Topic Options #187062 - 10/02/09 11:02 AM Re: Words derived from hand and feet [Re: zmjezhd] kah454 stranger Registered: 09/22/09 Posts: 19 Loc: Long Island, NY USA Apparently the best seller in our government and military circles these days is "Lessons in Disaster", a book about the US path to involvement in Vietnam. Perhaps in the future we can be free of the mortmain of ideology that has sent us down these paths to involvement in conflicts which cannot be resolved by outsiders. Top #187067 - 10/02/09 02:11 PM Re: Words derived from hand and feet [Re: kah454] BranShea Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 3387 Loc: Netherlands, the Hague Hi,kah454 As we are not supposed to drift off to politically tinted items here, I can only add that today's (again French derived) compound word made me think: mortmain >> 'mainly deaths'. ( mainly, because as I listened to the pronunciation of it, it sounded like: 'mordmaine'.) Edited by BranShea (10/02/09 02:12 PM) Top Page 2 of 2 < 1 2 Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. (have been consolidated into a single forum above) ------   Words from medicine   Beheading words   Meta-words   Words from classical mythology   Animal Safari   Words with unusual etymologies   Eponyms or words derived from people's names.   Loanwords from German   English as a global language Print Topic Switch to Threaded Mode View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts Forum Stats 7151 Members 16 Forums 12706 Topics 187592 Posts Max Online: 853 @ 10/23/07 11:39 AM Who's Online 0 registered (), 8 Guests and 19 Spiders online. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Newest Members Crejella, larsrc, KIDDETROIT, marksonamor, poetree 7151 Registered Users Top Posters wwh 13858 Faldage 12381 Jackie 10232 tsuwm 9400 Buffalo Shrdlu 6595 AnnaStrophic 6481 Wordwind 6296 of troy 5400 maverick 4683 WhitmanO'Neill 4186 November Su M Tu W Th F Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

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