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#98352 03/11/03 10:39 AM
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A very apt word for the day for me. I was cleaning out my room and found a shoebox full of old and new postcards I'd been collecting over the past two decades. As I placed a few others I'd found in on top of the pile I said to myself "There's probably a word for this". And now I know.


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There's a word for it, but the etymoloy is hard to find. I looked in a couple Greek - English
online dictionaries, and they all said the could not find "deltos" the root AHD gives. And there
seem to be no other words derived from the same root.


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The online Liddell and Scott from Perseus has deltos. It means writing tablet, letter, will.

http://makeashorterlink.com/?D2E5116C3

The index to their reference sources can be found here:

http://makeashorterlink.com/?W216526C3

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could not find "deltos"...there seem to be no other words derived from the same root

What's that? You say you never saw a triangle-shaped postcard? [Confound it, why don't they make a tongue-in-cheek-emoticon?]


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My turn to claim chopped liver status. It doesn't come from delta, the triangle-shaped Greek letter, but from deltos meaning writing tablet or document (such as a letter or will).

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why don't they make a tongue-in-cheek-emoticon

Just doesn't seem to work as well if you put it in clear, does it, wofa?



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