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Subject: BS: Increase your word power From: Roger the Skiffler Date: 13 Dec 11 - 05:36 AM ..as they used to say in the Reader's Disgust. FIDICINALES: [what]anatomists [call] the muscles of the fingers called lumbricales, from the use they are put to by musicians in playing some instruments. -Nathanial Bailey's Etymological English Dictionary, 1749. From fidicen, a harper -Richard Hoblyn's Medical Dictionary, 1859, Fidicinal, of or pertaining to a player on stringed instruments. -Sir James Murray's New English Disctionary, 1901. RtS (No, don't thank me, consider it my Xmas gift to you all [cheapskate!]) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Increase your word power From: Nigel Parsons Date: 13 Dec 11 - 05:43 AM RtS: Surely if fidicen is a fiddler, then fidicenales is refreshment for a fiddler! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Increase your word power From: Roger the Skiffler Date: 13 Dec 11 - 05:45 AM Boom BOOM! RtS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Increase your word power From: katlaughing Date: 13 Dec 11 - 03:20 PM LOVE them! My osteopath is going to love them. She got all "A"s in anatomy. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Increase your word power From: G-Force Date: 14 Dec 11 - 08:47 AM There are only two A's in anatomy. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Increase your word power From: John MacKenzie Date: 14 Dec 11 - 08:52 AM A's for 'orses. |
