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While searching for hadal, I noticed this:
Date: Thu Dec 3 00:04:22 EST 1998
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--syzygy
X-Bonus: Life is like a dog-sled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. -Lewis Grizzard
syzygy (SIZ-uh-jee) noun
1. Astronomy. Either of two points in the orbit of a celestial body where
the body is in opposition to or in conjunction with the sun. Either of
two points in the orbit of the moon when the moon lies in a straight
line with the sun and Earth. The configuration of the sun, the moon,
and Earth lying in a straight line.
2. The combining of two feet into a single metrical unit in classical
prosody.
[Late Latin syzygia, from Greek suzugia, union, from suzugos, paired : sun-,
syn- + zugon, yoke.]
Zeugma and syzygy surely share an origin: yoke? Or not?
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Zeug me
Jackie 10/21/2003 2:19 AM ![]()
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of troy 10/21/2003 2:56 PM ![]()
syllepsis and ellipsis
Alex Williams 10/21/2003 5:00 PM ![]()
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Wordwind 10/22/2003 12:20 AM ![]()
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Bingley 10/22/2003 4:21 AM ![]()
Yet another 'connection'
Jackie 11/05/2003 4:39 PM ![]()
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of troy 11/05/2003 6:23 PM ![]()
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Buffalo Shrdlu 11/06/2003 3:17 AM ![]()
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Jackie 11/08/2003 2:27 AM ![]()
Re: Yet another 'connection'
Buffalo Shrdlu 11/08/2003 2:54 AM
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