----- Original Message ----- From: Micky Hulse <rgmicky@xxxxxxxxx> > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 4:02 AM, Richard Quadling > <rquadling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > My daughter (6 or 7 at the time) came up with T, M and E. I was > > abso-bloody-lutely amazed she managed to find a word starting > with T, > > M and E. > > What was the word? -------------- He gave you a beautiful hint: tmesis |təˈmēsis| noun ( pl. -ses |-sēz|) the separation of parts of a compound word by an intervening word or words, heard mainly in informal speech (e.g., a whole nother story; shove it back any-old-where in the pile). ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from Greek tmēsis ‘cutting,’ from temnein ‘to cut.’ George -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
