Any suggestions, please?

Basil Chupin blchupin at iinet.net.au
Sat Sep 11 15:20:04 UTC 2010


On 11/09/2010 23:47, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:22:31 +1000
> Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>  wrote:
>
>    
>> Not that long ago some American, on a TV programme - politician or a
>> reporter or some such mammal - came out with the word, "physicality".
>> Both my wife looked at each other and said, "WHAT?!".
>>      
> Looking at you and you wife and wondering, "what?"  It (not as just an
> Americanism) exists:
>
> cybe at WizardsTower:~$ dict physicality
> 2 definitions found
>
> > From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
> [gcide]:
>
>    physicality \physicality\ n.
>       A preoccupation with satisfaction of physical drives and
>       appetites; -- of people.
>
>       Syn: animalism.
>            [WordNet 1.5]
>
> > From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
>
>    physicality
>        n 1: preoccupation with satisfaction of physical drives and
>             appetites [syn: {animalism}, {physicality}]
>
> Cybe R. Wizard
>    

Sorry, not in the Oxford Dictionary - where *proper* English words are 
shown.

The two sources you mention above are both American products: the second 
by a psycho. professor at Princeton Uni. and the first as a fork from 
Webster's, AND the psycho. professor at Princeton Uni. to boot!

No contest.

Queens' English is Queen's English.

When yall learn how to talk and put sentences toogether using proppa 
Eenglish langwhich, then wake me up, alright already?

BC

-- 
Fact is that which enough people believe. Truth is determined by how fervently they believe it.





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