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"Conundrum" meaningless?
- Subject: "Conundrum" meaningless?
- From: Jane Van Tassel 101233.342@xxxxxxxx
- Date: 26 Jan 97 03:02:16 EST
On 25 Jan. Harvard Bullwhocker wrote (in part): "if [Holmgren is] referring
above to "conundrum" as a term of art in computerese, its "meaninglessness" is
surely beyond my ken."
No, it's not meaningless; but it *is* a made-up word (originally Oxford
University slang, as befits a pseudo-Latin word) -- Oxford English Dictionary
and Eric Partridge's "Origins" are both entertaining on the subject.
Eric V.T.