amazing etymologies

[Benjamin Fortson]

Or "PIE in the sky" to Indo-Europeanists.

On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Peter A. McGraw wrote:

> Using the same connotations, it might alternatively be described as
> "pi-eyed" or, in more direct reference to atmospheric gases, "pi in the
> sky."
>
> --On Monday, February 18, 2002 1:05 PM +0800 Laurence Horn
> <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
>
> > I think we need to revive the original expression but in a
> > different form:  "The adminstration's policy on global warming is as
> > irrational as pi".
>
>
>
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>                                Peter A. McGraw
>                    Linfield College   *   McMinnville, OR
>                             pmcgraw at linfield.edu
>