On December 11, on [log in to unmask], Debra Wilson said: >>what a lot of people never realise is that the english language >>changes on a constant basis.... what was slang becomes consistant >>usage and accepted as an english word.... all you have to do is look >>at the latest Oxford dictionary's slang inclusions and you will see >>what is being replaced and what is being offered in place of something >>else.... I can still remember the days when we used to live in a paper >>bag on the side of a road.... oh bugger... forgot that was a python >>sketch..... anyway you get the general idea... and if you dont.. >>just try looking up the word chthonic in any dictionary printed later >>than 1970...... I'm not sure what your point was because I found it in my "Webster's New World Dictionary, 2nd Ed." (1984): chthonic - adj. 1. same as CHTHONIAN 2. dark, primitive, and mysterious And under chthonian we find that its a word based in Greek myth. -Debbie .---------------------------------------------------------------------. | No flames were thrown in the creation of this email message. | |--------------------------------.------------------------------------| [log in to unmask] \ May your sword always be within | |Systems Administrator \ reach and may your Foe's skill | |GTE Government Systems, Needham, MA\ and luck be less than your own.| `------------------------------------`--------------------------------'