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Thu, 05 Jun 2008
Antimater
If matter falls down, does antimatter fall up?
I'm not sure what that has to do with anything, but I have thought periodically about the word
repeat
If, when you repeat something you say it again, the first time you say it do you peat it?
OK, that's pretty silly, but I wondered, so, tonight, I looked it up (on line, of course). At the Merrian-Webster site the Etymology is:
Middle English repeten, from Middle French & Latin; Middle French repeter, from Old French, from Latin repetere to return to, repeat, from re- + petere to go to, seek
OK, so it's to go to or seek, originally. I guess by some stretch, I can see that one. It's definitely better than peat which we know is
partially carbonized vegetable tissue formed by partial decomposition in water of various plants
Even I knew that one.
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