--- In [email protected], anonymousff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:

> 
> You thought it was just a meaningless sound? :)
> 
> The extra "reg" and "e for a" switch is a mid 1600s form of the word
> used by alchemists -- that means "really aggravated". At least thats
> the roomer.

And as any dedicated etymologist, philologist, or linguist 
knows, "roomer" is the original Middle English form of "rumor" (and I 
suppose "rumour"), and as such is much preferred by true purists :-)




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