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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread halieutics #121432 01/27/2004 5:56 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 An impressive title for deep-sea fishing. Halieutics Hal`i*eu"tics (?), n. [L. halieuticus pertaining to fishing, Gr. .] A treatise upon fish or the art of fishing; ichthyology. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: halieutics #121433 01/29/2004 1:32 PM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Oh, what a can of worm you've opened here, wwh! If there are halieutics, then why not treatises on other animals such as anserinics, bovinics, and felinics? (And so on...) Would be a pity to limit these specially-named halieutics to fish. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: halieutics #121434 01/31/2004 11:05 PM Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 555 maahey addict maahey addict Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 555 There is just such a branch of entomology, WW, strictly reserved for ants - Myrmecology. As long as we continue to keep breaking up a large body of science into smaller divisions of specialised interest, we don't have to fear not having enough -ologies- to remember, eh? ..Is there an -ology for giraffes? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: halieutics #121435 02/01/2004 3:48 AM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Oh, maahey, I've no fear of ologies; in fact, I have a love of ologies. It just tickled my fancy to consider treatises written on various animals identified as such by the ics suffix: felinics avianics caninics (that's fun to say) ...and so on. I wish it were true! Hey! That makes me wonder how we came to have comics? Comics aren't treatises on anything at all! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  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... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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