[LMB] OT: factoids and contronyms

Tzivia Adler tadler at yeshivanet.com
Fri Jul 20 21:53:23 BST 2007


i like contranyms.

especially cleave.  'for a man shall cleave only unto his wife' and 
meat-cleaver, and cleavage...

which reminds me of being weirded out when a british book refered to a man 
as 'an absolute tit'.

i like janus faced words - that mean the opposite coming or going.

ziviya, trying to remember if jove=jupiter is also janus, or was that a 
differetn dude? 



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