Amicicide

[James Smith]

My first take on this was It. amici + cide.




--- Bill & Diana Sowers <bsowers at COX.NET> wrote:

> Dear ADS-L....
>
> Please forgive the intrusion on your list but I'm
> wondering if you could
> help me.  If I'm asking a question that isn't part
> of your list's purpose
> just let me know and I'll bow out gracefully!
>
> I work at the State Library of Kansas in Topeka.
> Today a patron called in
> wanting the pronunciation of a word unfamiliar to
> any of us.
>
> Amicicide
>
> We can't find the word in any dictionaries we have
> and its "hit rate" on
> google is fairly low.  The words appears to be used
> by military folk to
> describe the results of "friendly fire".... "the
> murder of a friend."
>
> I've checked as many online pronouncing dictionaries
> as I can locate...
> nothing.  My thought is that it might have the same
> flow as infanticide
> (accent on second syllable)...  but I have no proof.
>
> Any help appreciated!
>
> Bill Sowers
> State Library of Kansas... obsessively still working
> on this though at home
>
>
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James D. SMITH                 |If history teaches anything
South SLC, UT                  |it is that we will be sued
jsmithjamessmith at yahoo.com     |whether we act quickly and decisively
                               |or slowly and cautiously.



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