an accidental contruction?

[victor steinbok]

It's also wrong, so mishearing might have been by the person who gave him
this new information. Somewhere along the line someone was playing the
"broken phone" game...

VS-)

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:

>
> My 8-year-old grandson shared with me some newly-acquired information of
> his:  "Charlie, did you know that before you were born, you were just a
> single monocule?"
>
> Is it possible that he, even subconsciously, echoed the concept 'single' in
> the (seeming) prefix "mono-"?  I doubt it.  I suspect it's just a happy
> mistake--a mishearing or mispronunciation.
>
> (A word "monocule" does exist, though I was never what the word
> designates.)
>
> --Charlie
>

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