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To: Tax-chick

Crumbs Tax-chick that was pretty good going, nice work!

I might have given the right answers out too early, if so sorry to all.

The ‘fake’ words were mix-and match- words which owe a lot to moth taxonomy.

Weirdly enough - ‘Frustulum’ is not only used for “the breakfast meal on a Fast day” but also forms part of the latin name for some species of moth. Perhaps they don’t eat much in the morning :0)


14 posted on 11/16/2009 9:37:44 AM PST by agere_contra
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To: agere_contra

Or maybe there were moths in the grain they used to make the frustulum. We’ve had a moth infestation in our pantry this fall. Every time a package is left open or a bin not firmly closed, they come back. Sometimes the catz get in there and chase them, too.

I figured “oiketic” was “related to the house,” since oikos is house in Greek. That’s a problem when you study words: if you put various roots and suffixes together, it *could* mean something, even if nobody’s used it in print yet. Like, there could be a buggie that eats tricot (leaving holes in one’s undies ...)


15 posted on 11/16/2009 9:41:30 AM PST by Tax-chick (Buy me a "Land Shark" and take me to Anguilla.)
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