Amicicide

Thu Sep 29 15:37:24 UTC 2005

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 11:28:27 -0400, Laurence Horn wrote:

>>At 9/29/2005 10:34 AM, James D. SMITH wrote:
>>>
>>>My first take on this was It. amici + cide.
>>
>>As performed by the Mafia:  Don Amici.
>
>But the Italianate version sounds a bit too much like "Amechecide",
>what one would like to commit after a string of particularly annoying
>phone calls.

Good thing I recently saw _Ball of Fire_, wherein Sugarpuss whistles the
patter.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033373/quotes

--Ben Zimmer