Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Annular Inspection

The Latin word annulus means 'ring'. This was one of the many fascinating facts that bubbled to the surface in a virtual chat with my fellow Family assassin and healthcare hotshot, the Hobbit. Actually, the Hobbit was fulminating in his dry, wry, and painfully humorous witty way about 'aesthetic haemorrhoidectomies'.

To spare you a long trawl with many misspellings through a Google search, here is a link which may have relevance. You will get the point if you think about it (or around it) carefully.

In a nutshell (haha), the Hobbit was complaining about how people were doing certain procedures just to make themselves more appealing in rather outré ways. I cut off his fulminations by asking, "So you mean that people actually cut out their you-know-whats in order to..."

He cut back in. "Yes, to make themselves perfect *******s." Ho ho.

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Blogger le radical galoisien said...

What's especially funny is that only consonant length / gemination distinguishes the Latin minimal pair between year and ....

Friday, May 09, 2008 1:57:00 pm  

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