"Entymology"? Is this the derivation of names of insects?
KW
Christopher Crockett wrote:
>
> Bill East wrote:
>
> >We've had an interesting discussion on Werewolves, but I think I alone
> have used the correct spelling, others perhaps lacking an extra e on
> their keyboards. I'm surprised that Mr Crockett (Doctor Pedanticus)
> hasn't picked you up on this. Are you mellowing, Crockers?
>
> Not in the slightest, i assure you, O Great One.
>
> Just that, by the time i picked up on this string and its obvious revelence to
> middleevil religion, you folks were already so far in the Ditch as to be
> unsalvageable save through some Spectacular Blood Sacriface, most probably by
> an high official in amongst the Grammer Police.
>
> There are limits, after all.
>
> "Waswolf," indeed.
>
> And, O Isidore Tulku, spare us these flights of imaginary entymologies.
>
> What next, a denial of the self-evident derivation of "Woeman"?
>
> On point, "wherewolf," if you please (plural: "wherewolfs");
>
> or, if speaking of them in the Olden Daze, al Tems Anciënour,
> "whencewolfs" would be perfectly acceptable, in a pinch.
>
> As to the Kinkie Linguistic Customs of your Friends, the Much Sainted
> Sunderland Women of the North East, we needent get into that too deeply, on a
> Family List, i should think, this early in the new Millennium.
>
> Say, does your *Bishop* know you write letters to complete strangers with such
> references in them, or have you got that poor fellow hornswaggled as well,
> with that constant the "grimlin in the machine made me do it" malarkie?
>
> just curious.
>
> crockers,
> Whencewolf, detaché
>
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