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To: one_less who wrote (7122)	5/7/1999 2:36:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

brees--- The human propensity to wish to live in a world that is not fundamentally alien to their concerns might have something to do with it...

To: one_less who wrote (7122)	5/7/1999 1:24:00 PM
From: lorrie coey	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

Hypertext Webster Gateway: Language is man's law, brees... "etymology" From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913) Etymology \Et'ymol"ogy\, n.; pl. Etymologies. [L.etymologia, Gr. ?; ? etymon + ? discourse, description: cf. F. ['e]tymologie. See {Etymon}, and {-logy}.] 1. That branch of philological science which treats of the history of words, tracing out their origin, primitive significance, and changes of from and meaning. 2. That pert of grammar which relates to the changes in the form of the words in a language; inflection. From WordNet (r) 1.6 (wn) etymology n 1: a history of a word 2: the study of the sources and development of words...