Re: English diglossia (was Re: retroflex consonants)

No, I didn't get the specific meaning (in fact, I wasn't absolutely certain that
it was about a church until you said it) with context. But I broke it down:

anti  - against
dis  - undo
establish - well, umm, establish.  ^_^
ment - makes it a noun, I guess
arianism - a belief or system of thought (or similar)

My mom was big on learning Latin parts of speech and stuff. Basically, I figured
out that it meant a system of belief that was against the undoing of some kind
of establishment or system. I was probably 5 or 6, and it became my favorite
word because most grown-ups gave me funny looks when I said it.

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> -----Original Message-----
> Behalf Of David Barrow
> I understand that "antidisestablishmentarianism" refers to the
> disestablishment
> of the
> Church of England  in England. A disestablishmentarian is someone
> who wants the
> Cof E to be disestablished. You managed to work that out just by
> looking at the
> word? : )
>
> David Barrow
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