> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Monica Hall > Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2011 11:14 AM > To: howard posner > Cc: Lutelist > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Gynocentricityness > > > You might be interested to know that the The Random House Dictionary of > > the English Language, Unabridged Edition (1968) p. 632, defines "gyno-" > as > > "a learned borrowing from Greek meaning 'female,' 'woman,' used in the > > formation of compound words [e.g.] gynophore." > > Which is American. I checked the Complete Oxford Dictionary on-line and > all the sources it quotes seem to be American including the earliest > usage. > Well - we all know Americans spell things in a funny way.. > > So it appears you're just insufficiently learned, just like the rest of > us. > > Maybe..... > > Monica
Me too, but at least I'm easily humored (or is that humoured?). Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
