OH, how I wish I had been able to take Latin! I did not know the meaning of either pan or dora; thanks, Helen. I guess my awareness was of the slow variety, as I became aware of the similarities between French and English. However, one of the earliest words that intrigued me was 'mystery', probably due to the fact that our local library had a small room just off the main part devoted entirely to this genre, and how thrilled I was when I'd go in there--I swept through shelf after shelf of them. The very word, to me, evokes: eagerness, thrill, puzzle, and...solution!