On 09/19/2015 01:16 PM, Caveat wrote:
> Really not sure what you mean by 'doesn't come from English'... of
> course it comes from Greek, but it's a word appearing in most English
> dictionaries... so?  Should we exclude anorexia as an English word
> because it also comes from Greek, or manxome because it was made up by
> Lewis Carroll... ? :-)

All words came from half-human apes in caves making grunting sounds, 
which at some point they decided was more useful than the usual boolean 
expression of "hit with club" or "do not hit with club". The evolution 
of language is a complex topic, and these days to some degree they all 
bleed together borrowing from each other (especially English, which is 
messy and fluid).

-- 
Kevin Fishburne
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