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I once heard of a booked titled "Circumcision: An American Held Fallacy."
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Etymology: Latin, from Greek phallos
The Greek plural would be phalloi.
You outsmarted your own self, Dr. Bill.
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I made up that plural of phallus, and was waiting for one of our scholars to expose the error. When none did, I decided to do it myself. I get a chuckle out of what I found:
Etymology: Latin, from Greek phallos penis, representation of the penis;
probably akin to Latin flare to blow -- more at BLOWGee, Dr. Bill... all I asked for was some serious help in finding the background/origin of the word williwaw (tsuwm, NicolasW, are you out there?), and somehow we wind up with you discovering the etymolgy for b*** j**!  How on Earth did we get from point A to point B (or point BJ), Good Doctor?  
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I was just handing Faldage a good post. You're welcome, Faldage.
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You're welcome, Faldage.
Think nothing of it, Dr. Bill. Always happy to play into your hands.
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Hyla, are frogs with no phalloi considered hoi polloi?
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williwogs wafting in from the sea
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wil.li.waw - a sudden violent gust of cold land air
Seems to me we got two different things here: Williwaw, by definition, is a violent gust of *land air. Williwog, OTOH, would seem to be a gentle *sea breeze. Different directions, different strengths...
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>Williwog
Sounds like a mix between 'williwaw' and 'golliwog', not that that would make any sense. 'Willifog' would have been good though.
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Dear wwh,
The part of the etymology you pasted read: flare to blow.
Flare to blow? What in Sam's Hill does flare to blow mean? What flare? I mean, flair to blow would mean something altogether different and rather funny, as though some kind of talent were involved in blowing, but flare to blow? I don't get this at all...
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Dear WW, I think the "flare" should have been italicized, to indicate it was a Latin word. You know "From Latin flare, to blow" Then it reads more like a dictionary entry, and produces less gigglement...
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