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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread amerce/fines #94840 02/07/2003 10:50 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... This is/was a Strive-To vocab. word of the day I hadn't heard of before: Amerce: ": to punish by a fine whose amount is fixed by the court; broadly : punish" Set a fine, levy a fine? But amerce a fine? I've never heard this one used. Anybody out there who's come across this one? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: amerce/fines #94841 02/07/2003 10:55 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Anybody out there who's come across this one? I ran across it just today. In the Merriam-Webster Word of the Day. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: amerce/fines #94842 02/07/2003 2:01 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont anything to do with "com-merce"? formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: amerce/commerce #94843 02/07/2003 2:27 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Maybe. The -merce in commerce is from the Latin for merchandise the -merce in amerce is from the Latin for wages Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: amerce/commerce #94844 02/07/2003 2:30 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky The -merce in commerce is from the Latin for merchandise the -merce in amerce is from the Latin for wages Hey, that's cool! (And now we know what poor people mean when they cry Lord, amerce...) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: amerce/commerce #94845 02/07/2003 2:34 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Lord, amerce Closer than you might think. The -merce came through the French merci back when it still meant mercy Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: amerce/fines #94846 02/07/2003 2:48 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 I'm shedding tears as big as horsebuns. Much as it would ill-become me to use tsuwm's execrable acronym, "amerce" was posted in Beheading Words last November 17. Booh-hoo-hoo-hoo! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: amerce/fines #94847 02/07/2003 3:03 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, let me wipe your tears, wwh, with a bit of tissue large as a horsebun. Sorry for the oversight and lack of credit given to you for introducing a word here...but I am horribly remiss in going through the archives. Consider me completely apologetic and thoroughly beheaded, WW Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: amerce/fines #94848 02/07/2003 7:36 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Dear WW: poor pathetic poster that I am, I thank you for your solicitude. I was just hoping to entice more members to patonized Beheading Words. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit 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. 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