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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread #116810 - 11/28/03 08:08 PM A direct question   Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Jackie Jackie   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Dody's thread over in I&A got me to thinking about this. For governments that have established empires, why don't we say they're empirical? #116811 - 11/28/03 10:05 PM Re: A direct question   Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Because they have different roots. Empire is from the Latin imperare, to rule; empirical is through Latin from the Greek empeirikos, experienced. #116812 - 11/29/03 02:42 AM Re: A direct question   Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Jackie Jackie   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Thank you, Mr. F. I had a feeling it would be something like that. Although I am too familiar with the "real" meaning of empirical to be able to seriously ascribe it as I said above, it still makes grammatical "sense" to me; I guess in the same way that toddlers say, "I tooked a piece of candy". #116813 - 11/29/03 04:49 AM Re: A direct question   Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Capfka Pooh-Bah Capfka   Pooh-Bah Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok You could say, I suppose and at the risk of being laughed at, that the government was empireical. 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 consolidated into a single forum above) ------   Words from medicine   Beheading words   Meta-words   Words from classical mythology   Animal Safari   Words with unusual etymologies   Eponyms or words derived from people's names.   Loanwords from German   English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode View Profile Send Private Message Follow User Show Forum Posts View Profile Send Private Message View Homepage Follow User Show Forum Posts View Profile Send Private Message Follow User Show Forum Posts View Profile Send Private Message Follow User Show Forum Posts Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,881 Posts224,661 Members9,048 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Sammy87, Bentron2000, Santanu, DavidOrigami, RichEngle 9048 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 registered members (), 79 guests, and 2 spiders. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 51 A C Bowden 25 LukeJavan8 10 may2point0 3 SantaFeR 1 Top Posters(All Time) wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 tsuwm 10,538 LukeJavan8 9,120 wofahulicodoc 7,883 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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