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<i>From today's WAD:</i>
"It's a good thing we don't have to go with the literal meaning of words or we'd be exercising in the nude in the gymnasia. The word gymnasium derives from the combining form gymno-, meaning nude or bare. Other words similarly formed are gymoplast (protoplasm without surrounding wall) and <b>gynosophy</b> (a form of philosophy practiced by those refusing to wear clothes)."
Are we missing an <b>/M/</b> here? I surely hope so...
<link>]http://onelook.com/?w=gymnosophy&last=gynosophy&loc=spell1</link>
(I give up on trying to use HTML instead of those nonexistent UBB codes... *sigh*)
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From today's WAD:
"It's a good thing we don't have to go with the literal meaning of words or we'd be exercising in the nude in the gymnasia. The word gymnasium derives from the combining form gymno-, meaning nude or bare. Other words similarly formed are gymoplast (protoplasm without surrounding wall) and gynosophy (a form of philosophy practiced by those refusing to wear clothes)."
Are we missing an /M/ here? I surely hope so...
http://onelook.com/?w=gymnosophy&last=gynosophy&loc=spell1
(I give up on trying to use HTML instead of those nonexistent UBB codes... *sigh*)
I replaced your html (<>) brackets with UBB ([]) markup; it's the Instant UBB code that doesn't seem to work.
Last edited by tsuwm; 10/03/05 01:29 PM.
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those refusing to wear clothes - or just a Freudian slip..
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From today's WAD:
"It's a good thing we don't have to go with the literal meaning of words or we'd be exercising in the nude in the gymnasia. The word gymnasium derives from the combining form gymno-, meaning nude or bare. Other words similarly formed are gymoplast (protoplasm without surrounding wall) and gynosophy (a form of philosophy practiced by those refusing to wear clothes)."
Are we missing an /M/ here? I surely hope so...
http://onelook.com/?w=gymnosophy&last=gynosophy&loc=spell1
(I give up on trying to use HTML instead of those nonexistent UBB codes... *sigh*)
I replaced your html (<>) brackets with UBB ([]) markup; it's the Instant UBB code that doesn't seem to work.
Not to mention an /N/. OK, so it's not as funny as the gynosophy.
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