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Re: HIStories and HYSTeria

To: "Peter T. Chattaway" <petert at interchange_ubc.ca>
Subject: Re: HIStories and HYSTeria
From: "J. Marie Hall" <fionaeval at yahoo_com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 16:55:42 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: over-the-rhine at actwin_com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0106211458230.16746-100000 at inch_interchange.ubc.ca>

> And of course, "hysteria" comes from the Greek word
> for uterus, "hystera"

exactly...

> (also the root for "hysterectomy"), so the presence
> of a syllable that
> sounds just like a male pronoun is, once again,
> proof of nothing.  :)

"hyster" slightly altered to poke fun in rhyme...a
very femenine (don't you just _love_ that uterus?)
association to juxtapose with our currently
well-defined "HIStory" :)

-j. marie

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