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- Title: Vanilla Vaginas: Strange Bedfellows
- Author : Anil
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 44 KB
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It's often surprising, even amusing, when unlikely words turn out to be related etymologically, such as vanilla and vagina (pod, sheath). Some of those here seem so unlikely you're unlikely to believe me and will want to look them up yourself for confirmation or details. Admittedly many pairings are of composite words that share a common root in only part of the word(s). But the two halves of the hyphenated words listed here count separately. I have searched only the A's in Chambers' Dictionary of Etymology and found so many it'd take some time to survey the whole dictionary and would yield far too many to present in a reasonable length article. My raw A result extrapolates to ca. 2200 pairs in A-Z, but actually maybe half that since each letter infringes on many subsequent-letter cases, leaving each in turn with progressively fewer new examples. And I present here only about two-thirds of the A's I found, extrapolating to maybe 700 pairs or groups in A-Z of this degree of surprise. I urge others to take on the rest of the alphabet in this voyeuristic bedroom search. Doing one letter was great fun, but doing the whole alphabet at my pace would take 4-5 months. Perhaps if each reader did one letter, as in a charity funraiser, together we could cover the whole language.
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