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Subject:	Re: Ibis
Author:	Miranda (Authenticated as Randee15)
Date:	February 18, 2006 at 2:08:51 PM
Reply to:	Re: Ibis by Nikida

The American Heritage Dictionary quoth:
Middle English ibin, from Latin îbis, from Greek, from Egyptian hbj.

The Egyptian word hbj may have a more obscure meaning, but many words for objects ultimately have no other meaning other than "a word to describe something we need a word to describe"--in this case, "ibis".

EDIT: + bold, just for the heck of it.

Miranda

Proud adopter of 15 punctuation marks; see my profile for their names.

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Messages in this thread:

Ibis - Nikida Feb 18 2006, 8:37:11 AM
- Re: Ibis - Andy ;—) Feb 18 2006, 8:40:48 AM
  - Re: Ibis - Nikida Feb 18 2006, 1:43:37 PM
    - Re: Ibis - Miranda Feb 18 2006, 2:08:51 PM
      - Re: Ibis - Briallen Feb 19 2006, 2:44:24 PM
        
        Re: Ibis - Nikida Feb 19 2006, 7:28:40 PM
        
        Re: Ibis - Cleveland Kent Evans Feb 20 2006, 1:00:11 PM

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