[Magdalen] Calvary is the New Cavalry.

ME Michaud michaudme at gmail.com
Sat Mar 14 20:39:29 UTC 2015


Oh, and by the way, if you tend to pronounce Tmesis as
TimEEsis, that's epenthesis.

On Saturday, March 14, 2015, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:

> Tmesis: inserting a word into another word for effect or emphasis.
> Your Greek teacher said it was a Greek usage, never happened in English,
> and you said:
>
> far-*******-out
>
> I just have a brain that retains these stories.
> -M
>
> On Saturday, March 14, 2015, Robert Rea <gapetard at stsams.org
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','gapetard at stsams.org');>> wrote:
>>
>> Wow, I don't remember that. refresh my aging memory.
>>
>>
>>


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