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The commenters over at Liberman's post Apico-labials in English all clearly prefer the spelling syncing , but I find it just weird look... -
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Matt Damon's latest hit movie Elysium has a few linguistic oddities worth pointing out. The film takes place in a dystopian future set i...
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As somebody points out in the commentary, the singular (nominative) form of fæces is fæx. The interesting thing is that it did not mean shit in Latin, but most a euphemism for it in Medical (Medieval) Latin. The two most common words for the substance under discussion in Classical Latin are stercus and merda.
zmjezhd, thanks for the additional info. My Latin is, ahem, non-existent.
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