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"Conundrum" meaningless?



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.