conceptionmoon

[Mark Mandel]

But less transparent to the illatinate.

m a m

On Jan 30, 2008 2:48 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:

> >---
> >http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/14/nyregion/14pregnant.html
> >New York Times, Jan. 14, 2008
> >A 2006 survey on BabyCenter.com, a Web site for new parents, showed
> >that three quarters of 1,052 participants had taken "conceptionmoons,"
> >or baby-making junkets, and 40 percent of those had been successful.
>
> Seems like "crescentmoon" would be more poetic, if less graphic...
>

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