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Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Word wonders

oxymoron...

There are times when the source of words becomes a curiosity that must be satisfied. For some reason, today's word was oxymoron. One of my colleagues pulled up the source (thanks to wikipedia). It's from the Greek:

oxys "sharp" + moros "stupid"

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