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From: Chris Croughton <chris@keristor.net>
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Subject: Re: Word needed
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 23:16:36 +0100
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On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 16:13:27 GMT, Miss Elaine Eos
<Misc@*your-shoes*PlayNaked.com> wrote:
> In article <slrne41i8g.nb.chris@ccserver.keris.net>,
> Chris Croughton <chris@keristor.net> wrote:
>
>> > I always thought "-phile" meant "enjoys and/or has an interest in",
>> > except in the silly case of pedophile (the American spelling of the word
>> > that means "unnatural sexual love for children." See also pediatrician,
>> > a children's doctor.)
>
>> You mean paediatrician? <g>
> [...]
>> Looking at www.dictionary.com:
>
> FYI, check out:
>
> <http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=pedophile>
Which only does dictionaries of American, not English <g>.
> That's how I verified my spelling ;) And, while "ae" is offered in the
> pronunciation guide, "paedophile" was offered as the Brittish
> bastardization of the perfectly-valid "pedophile" <G>
Nope, the British spelling was first <g>. Actually, the 'ae' is an
English stayed as an expanded 'ae' and in American was contracted to 'e'
thus leading to confusion (as in 'paedo-', to do with children, versus
'pedo-', to do with feet).
>> Similarly, Anglophiles (sensible people <g>) have a
>> love of things English, bibliophiles a love of books, etc.
>
> Boiled meats, cabbage... :6
I'm note sure of the Greek roots to form "lover of boiled meat" etc.,
I'll have to ask <g>.
> (Then again, all of my American friends think I'm affected because I
> enjoy using the "our" ending for colour, behaviour, etc., and the "re"
> ending for words like centre and theatre. So maybe I'm a
> saemianglophile. Or is that a Canukophile?)
Whereas I use 'centre' but use 'er' in variants like 'centered' <g>.
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
[Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Chris C
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