the OED makes me chuckle with glee
Dec. 21st, 2002 05:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eubI ran across this under "antigropelos": [Said to be made up from Gr. αντι against + υγρος wet + πηλος mud (which should give anthygro 'pēlos)!]
(I did math-Greek HTML, not language-Greek, so I don't know how to get the accents.)
What does it for me, I think, is the deferring to the end of the pedantic parenthetical the signifier of shock at barbarism.
(I did math-Greek HTML, not language-Greek, so I don't know how to get the accents.)
What does it for me, I think, is the deferring to the end of the pedantic parenthetical the signifier of shock at barbarism.
