Yes, the humors were all bodily fluids - hence, they were (are?) all wet (no
humorous pun intended). Since these humors also dicate mood, and humor in the
modern sense is a kind of mood, I don't think the leap is so very difficult.
Paul
"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable
fiction" (_Twelfth Night_ 3.4.127-128).
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From: "Suarez, Julia" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sat, September 24, 2011 2:22:06 PM
Subject: Re: Call for vocab
Hi, Linda,
Probably from the idea of the bodily humors--those mysterious essences that
were once thought to dictate our personalities,--phlegm, choler, bile, both
black and yellow. . .all quite moist--humid.
Julie
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Sent: Sat 9/24/2011 1:08 PM
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"Humor" relates to "damp"? Interesting! Does anyone know how? A
perspiring nervous standup comedian comes to mind....
Linda Comerford
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From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar
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Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2011 10:22 AM
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Subject: Re: Call for vocab
On an even lighter note:
humor/humid
...although these two really are cognates, deriving from words meaning
"damp."
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Jane Saral <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
On a lighter note, (for an SAT vocab exercise) I wonder if I might solicit
words that fit the pattern of noun ending in -or and adjective in -id....
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