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Hearty accord to mav's comment, One of the wonders of language for me is the ability to find new connections even in familiar material. I had a similar epiphany when dr. bill used a word, ithyphallic, unfamiliar to me. bartleby.com, gives the root and alternate form of that root. These were vigorous, seminal roots, and among their progeny are intriguing connections, some surprising. I here cite only the striking fact that the words phallic and fool are linguistically related. Ah, the deep wisdom embedded in our language! http://bartleby.com/61/34/I0263400.htmlRoots: http://bartleby.com/61/roots/IE51.html; http://bartleby.com/61/roots/IE53.html; and http://bartleby.com/61/roots/IE65.html
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Dear Keiva: Can that be the reason so many of us cannot suffer fools gladly?
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why the heck is "jaunty" a derivative of "gen"?
Pronunciation of the French gentil. The meaning has slipped a bit since it was first used to describe the possibly arrogant (from the Saxon point of view) attitude of the Norman overlords.
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When the gents move to the country, they even have the gall to complain about odor of cow byproducts. Gentrification seems applicable to them
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II Corinthians 11:19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
- William Blake; Proverbs of Hell
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dr. bill ... ithyphallic? Yeth. 
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>A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
<shakes head dizzily> oh man... where did that tree pop up from?
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