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recoil

Postby William Hupy » Fri May 29, 2015 9:16 am

Difficult to fathom that this word is from Latin "reculare", with "re" meaning "back" and "culus" meaning "backside, bottom, fundament".
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Re: recoil

Postby Slava » Sat May 30, 2015 6:56 pm

Why so difficult? All of its meanings are to move toward the back. What's more back than the butt?
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Re: recoil

Postby William Hupy » Mon Jun 01, 2015 10:43 am

Difficult, as it seems to have a Germanic upbringing and not Latin. It seems more blue collar than white. I heard this recently regarding that dichotomy: There are people who shower before they go to work and then there are those who shower after work, meaning blue collar after and white collar before. I retire in 29 days from an office where I dealt with a third group - those who did not shower!
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