Re: Slur posted by john.kulczycki@sympatico.ca (was WOWA!)

On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 04:23:08 -0800 (PST), Pies de Arcilla
<dearcilla@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:



Koolchicki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Some folks forget that the name of the group is "miscellaneous.
writing" A few people forget the meaning of "miscellaneous".

Sigh.

Why is it that you can say miscellaneous, but not miscellane;
cellophane, but not cellophaneous? The world has been deprived of
rhymes.

Why can't you say "cellophaneous"? I rather like it. As in "that
package is rather cellophaneous." Not to be confused of course with
cellophoneus, a disease that causes formerly sane people to rent
ringtones.

But -- you can say "miscellane," only it's spelled
"miscellany," the y being according to the dictionary probably from
the French "miscellanées," from the Latin "miscellanea." By way of
"miscellanies," I assume.

--
Josh

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals.
We know now that it is bad economics." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
.