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[Charlie Reams]

An aide-memoire for some words and non-words in the form of etymological fun.

[Lesley Hines]

Thanks for this; there's some interesting stuff in there. Didn't know PRAESIDIUM had made it into English via the Russian, though - I only knew it from this cute little limerick:

There was a Roman from Vinidium
Whose shirt was made of iridium
When asked why the vest
He replied "Id est
Bonum sanguinem praesidium!"

(It's a bloody good protection)

[Charlie Reams]

While we're doing Latin limericks...

Whenever a fellow named Rex
Flashed his very small organ of sex,
He always got off
For the judges would scoff,
"De minimis non curat lex".

[Mike Brown]

An aide-memoire for some words and non-words in the form of etymological fun.

So that's what you were up to.