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

[Jonathan Lighter]

Yeah, but while "warm bodies" can feel pain, that implication is entirely
irrelevant to the usual context. In the current sense, it appears to be
central.

 JL


On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > 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.
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> Isn't that part of Cambridge now Arlington? There's a tee-nine-shee bit of
> the primordial wilderness there that's called "Menotomy."
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