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OP If, as you say, Wordsmith depends on his dictionaries, I want to know which ones they are and how they come to such an etymology. I have to make sure I never buy such drivel.
My second major in college may have been the Classics, but I'd be very surprised to find that I'm the only member with a Greek professor in his background.
What I find shocking is that no one else seems to have questioned the statement that telephone was derived from "telikos." Pretty much from the day I learned the word telephone, I knew its etymology, and then someone suddenly tries to tell me that the rest of the world is wrong.
I once met someone from Iceland, where they work very hard to keep foreign words out of the language. Their word for telephone is a combination of ancient Icelandic roots meaning "far away" and "sound," just as the English.
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Telephone Etymology Slava 07/10/03 01:15 PM Re: Telephone Etymology wwh 07/10/03 02:20 PM Re: Telephone Etymology tsuwm 07/10/03 02:46 PM Re: Telephone Etymology Slava 07/10/03 03:19 PM Re: Telephone Etymology tsuwm 07/10/03 03:36 PM Re: Telephone Etymology maahey 07/11/03 01:17 PM Re: Telephone Etymology wwh 07/11/03 02:19 PM Re: Telephone Etymology Slava 07/11/03 02:45 PM Re: Telephone Etymology wwh 07/11/03 03:49 PM Re: Telephone Etymology Slava 07/11/03 04:39 PM Re: Telephone Etymology Buffalo Shrdlu 07/11/03 05:00 PM Re: Telephone Etymology tsuwm 07/11/03 05:29 PM Re: Telephone Etymology Slava 07/12/03 08:03 PM Re: Telephone Etymology wwh 07/12/03 08:47 PM words from "telos-" wofahulicodoc 07/13/03 05:52 PM
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