body = 'a human being as capable of feeling physical pain'

[Laurence Horn]

On Aug 15, 2014, at 3:06 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

> At 8/15/2014 03:45 AM, W Brewer wrote:
> 
>> (1) <<Gin a body meet a body / Comin thro' the rye>>.  (Recall Gary Larson
>> cartoon, two hospital attendants pushing gurneys through a rye field ...)
>> (2) <<Just find me two more warm bodies to make a class ...>>
> 
> in anatomy.
> 
> Not in metonymy.
> 
> Off topic:  In the 18th century, the portion of Cambridge, Mass., called "Menotomy" was occasionally printed "Anatomy".  In the 19th century, it was once published as "Metonomy".  Not "metonymy".  Nor "monotony" either.
> 
Or "monogamy"?

LH

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