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

[Jonathan Lighter]

No soap, mahogany.

JL




On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

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> Subject:      Re: body = 'a human being as capable of feeling physical
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> On Aug 15, 2014, at 3:06 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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> > At 8/15/2014 03:45 AM, W Brewer wrote:
> >=20
> >> (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 ...>>
> >=20
> > in anatomy.
> >=20
> > Not in metonymy.
> >=20
> > 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.
> >=20
> Or "monogamy"?
>
> LH
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