[OT] interpreted

Steven Taschuk staschuk at telusplanet.net
Tue Jun 10 11:23:06 EDT 2003


Quoth John J. Lee:
  [...]
> Pseudonymous cowards would be more accurate, perhaps.
> 
> As opposed to nonymous and demi-nonymous cowards.  ;-)

Actually the negating prefix is 'an-' here, not just 'a-'.  Thus
'named' would be 'onymous'.  Ultimately such words are from Greek
<onyma>.

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