Does Logiphila lead to Etymology

love of words will win. Even these days, with definitions a key/button stroke away and i suspect those of us who admire how language has evolved and is evolving at a exponential pace, really care about origins :(

Spelling bees are a gateway to actual entomology. Childhood spellers have been known to send away for ant farm kits.

A - B - C - D - E - F . . .

All I know is you need to email the Online Etymology Dictionary and let them know that the word "logophilia" isn't present on their site :P

response :P as a youngster i dumped french for latin,and when public school ran out of courses in Latin they made me learn greek. (which could be construed as child abuse) but by this time the statute of limations are surely run out.

I took it in High School (mostly because I was enamored by what my next oldest brother had told me about it) only to get just one year's worth. The teacher, while being a really great teacher for us, decided she'd had enough of teaching and got a higher-paying job out in the "real" world. Then my school decided to try and get me to stay behind half a year because I hadn't had two-consecutive years of one language. When I rather belligerently explained that it wasn't my fault but theirs, they backed down and I graduated normally with one year Latin and one year German. I like German, but I would rather have had both years of Latin.

Now here's a site for you to either brush up on your Greek, or correct the page :P

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Greek_pronunciation

It leads to harder stuff. ;-)

It is a closed circle, an omphalos as it were. All logophiliacs know what I mean.

origin of words versus meaning of words?

I do not intentionally mean to be well...."mean" but there is a world of difference.

:-)

:P

Rabbits have fleas, don't they?

that made me burst out laughing, and i am a lounge lizard! But then again, i am partial to bunnies :P

Not bad....

:rofl:

for joining :P But hush, if he finds out it will go to his head :)

heh well not really, CA peggy answered why i could not have a avatar image...but i always admired Boo's free thought process :)

it is hard to agree or disagree with him :)

You just never actually know whether you are agreeing or disagreeing.. ;)

but he does make you stop and think :)


but rarely about the posts or topic...that young man needs focus... :P

no text done said my piece