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To: Larry Lucido

Dux, Rex, Lux?

Maybe you mean at the beginning of a word?

That’s rare, but it does happen.
xiphias = “swordfish.” (in Pliny).


137 posted on 06/05/2019 6:59:23 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: scrabblehack

I was being a bit facetious, referring to the tendency of some to refer to folks (folx?) as Latinx (sic) instead of Latins, Latinos or Latinas. A bunch of minxes, if you ask me.


138 posted on 06/05/2019 7:03:36 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: scrabblehack; Larry Lucido
Dux, Rex, Lux?

Also ex post facto, ex libris, praxis, etc.

146 posted on 06/05/2019 8:02:29 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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