Back from holiday among the Berbers of the Atlas Mountains, I notice that there's been a bunch of learned dissertations on the origin of "holistic".
It's quite simple. It comes from the Greek word " 'olos ", meaning "whole". It became a buzz-word about 30 years ago and was, quite simply, mispelled by those American and English writers who wrote for magazines such as "Resurgence", had heard it spoken at alternativist workshops, etc, but had never read it -- and had certainly never realised its Greek root. Being an editor myself at that time, receiving many articles containing the mispelling, I did my little bit to correct the mistake, but it was probably the most rampant fashionable term that I've yet encountered and, in the end, "wholistic" became too common to be stopped in its tracks. The correct word is "holistic". "Wholistic" is a barbarism. Keith Hudson ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- Keith Hudson,6 Upper Camden Place, Bath BA1 5HX, England Tel:01225 312622/444881; Fax:01225 447727; E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
