At 2:45 PM +0000 1/30/03, Keith Hudson wrote:
Hi Keith,The correct word is "holistic". "Wholistic" is a barbarism.
Welcome back. How many FW messages did you have waiting? I sent one a week or so ago "Gender benders" in response to the HIV/Aids thread. Not a peep in response. I sent it because of the natural/unnatural views on homosexual behaviour. I would be interested in your response given that you saw recognizing homosexual partnerships as a fad.
Now onto your spelling concerns. How do you view all of the American spellings of the Queen's English? You may have noticed that I use programme, labour etc. I'd be careful calling the Yanks (and especially the Rebels) barbaric!!
Take care,
Brian
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
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