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Word of the Day for Monday, May 9, 2011splenetic \spli-NET-ik\, adjective: 1. Irritable; peevish; spiteful. "I perceive, my dear sir, that I am at intervals for indulging this splenetic manner, and following my own tusto regardless of yours." The true splenetic arts are not acquired in a day." Splenetic comes from the Late Latin spleneticus, "of the spleen." In medieval physiology the spleen was considered the seat of morose feelings and bad temper. | |||||||||
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  Why do sounds close to "mama" appear in so many languages?Mother, maman, mommy, amma, mama, em, mum, mamma, mutter, mare, maty, ana . . . Across languages an uncanny pattern appears for the word "mother." Why? Is it evidence of universal language? Is this evidence of sound symbolism at work, when a phoneme (sound) has meaning completely unto itself? If you are a linguist, baby talk... | |||||||||
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