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Carpal Tunnel
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Carpal Tunnel
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a wwftd subscriber wrote to ask if Monday's word, minatory, was related to the Minotaur, who was quite threatening. since the latter comes literally from Minos' bull, I had to tell her no, it was only serendipity. googling the two rewarded me with this: http://www.danmahony.com/oddwords.htm
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Pooh-Bah
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Maybe its a natural connection to make. Thanks for the link by the way. Hadn't seen it before so I've subscribed to try it out for a while. I also get the Oxford wftd, but that's usually very abstruse and I think I'll cancel it - I tried once but its come back.
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Carpal Tunnel
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Carpal Tunnel
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Back when there was a thead about "clew" helping Theseus find his way out of the labyrinth, I didn't know that the labyrinth was apparently entirely inside subrerranean level of Minos' palace. I am skeptical that much of a labyrinth could be contained in such a small area. And I still wonder what the Greek equivalent of "clew" was.
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