Re: OFF-TOPIC: Pocinators & [lE"pri:S@nz] [was: Non linguistics books by Chomsky]

Ray Brown wrote:

> On Monday, May 24, 2004, at 11:06 AM, Stephen Mulraney wrote:
>
>
>> Actually, you are quite right, as the listserv interface has just
>> confirmed: this thread contain the only use of the word "Pocinator" in
>> the archives. So I misremember. But what is it that I misremember? There
>> was a title granted to you, consisting of a normal word with a missing
>
> [snip]
>
>> that I think that "Procinator" s a real word :).
>
>
> Quite right - it ain't. I've checked real Latin as well; neither
> *Pocinator nor *Pricinator occur. The nearest I can find is
> 'pocillator' =
> "cup-bearer". But I doubt that was the word; the image of John as
> ganymede
> to Listserv is a tad surreal   ;)
>
I wish I could remember this extra title. I wonder if I dreamed the
whole episode? I can't pin it down with the listerv's search function. Gah.

s.
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