home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
/ NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #26 / NN_1992_26.iso / spool / sci / crypt / 4483 < prev    next >
Encoding:
Internet Message Format  |  1992-11-14  |  1.3 KB
  1. Xref: sparky sci.crypt:4483 comp.org.eff.talk:6873 alt.privacy:2155 talk.politics.guns:23776 alt.usage.english:8338
  2. Newsgroups: sci.crypt,comp.org.eff.talk,alt.privacy,talk.politics.guns,alt.usage.english
  3. Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!ibmpcug!gtoal
  4. From: gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal)
  5. Subject: Re: Registered Keys - why the need?
  6. Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
  7. Distribution: inet
  8. Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 08:50:45 GMT
  9. Message-ID: <BxFxwM.5tw@ibmpcug.co.uk>
  10. Followup-To: alt.usage.english
  11. References: <1992Nov7.180313.21346@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <BxFEz0.1nG@constant.demon.co.uk>
  12. Lines: 19
  13.  
  14. In article <BxFEz0.1nG@constant.demon.co.uk> slangley@constant.demon.co.uk (Simon Langley) writes:
  15. :Steven Miale (spm2d@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU) wrote:
  16. :: 
  17. :: Most people tend to assume that "militia" == "military"; this is
  18. :: incorrect. Similar roots don't necessary imply similar meanings;
  19. :: compare "pedestrian" and "pediatrist".
  20. :: 
  21. :Err, these two words do not have the same root.  Pedestrian is from the Latin
  22. :pes, meaning foot; pediatrist is from the Greek pais (pi alpha iota sigma) 
  23. :which means child.  Militia and military _are_ cognate.
  24. :
  25.  
  26. I don't think there *is* a 'pediatrist'.  The child-doctor is a
  27. p(a)ediatrician; the foot-doctor is a *pod*iatrist, which comes
  28. from the Greek 'pod'...
  29.  
  30. G
  31. [followups redirected to alt.usage.english]
  32. -- 
  33.