Re: Results of Poll by Email No. 26

On Saturday 29 March 2003 10:10 am, John Cowan wrote:
> > laevuslevuslithuanophobia
>
> If you are going to end in "phobia", you need Greek, not Latin.
> Otherwise you get hideous hybrids like, say, "television".
        Good point. But I don't know how to say "left-handed" in Greek (not that I
knew how to say it in Latin, either, but there are a lot more online Latin
dictionaries than Greek). On the other hand, the -lithuan- part would work
better, since Greek has a theta.
        :Peter
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Oh what a tangled web they weave who try a new word to conceive!