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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ManyMoose who wrote (179291)	6/7/2009 4:36:35 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 225578

Very good. A gold star for ManyMoose. The Latin testis originally meant "witness," and etymologically means "third (person) standing by": the te– part comes from an older tri–, a combining form of the word for "three," and –stis is a noun derived from the Indo-European root st- meaning "stand." How this also came to refer to the body part(s) is disputed. An old theory has it that the Romans placed their right hands on their testicles and swore by them before giving testimony in court.