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- From: velde2@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Francois Velde)
- Subject: Re: *Very* early music
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.172607.22021@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
- Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
- References: <01GSNIJIG9080009C2@GONZAGA.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:26:07 GMT
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- In article <01GSNIJIG9080009C2@GONZAGA.EDU> JAMES QUINN <QUINN@GONZAGA.BITNET> writes:
- >> Because I was translating from the original text in French, and I wasn't
- >> too sure the words were the same in English. As a matter of fact, ceramology
- >> is not in the OED (organology is, of course; apologies to organologists
- >> worldwide). I suppose it means the study of ceramics.
- >
- >Could it have been "ceremology," the study of ceremonies and ceremonial
- >behavior? But that isn't in the OED either. :-) (O.K., I admit it,
- >I'm a neologist!)
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- I checked: the word "ceramologie" exists in French, meaning the archeological
- study of ceramic arts.
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- Francois Velde
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