A good holiday topic! Here's a creative comment, although not etymologically based, from a student catching a few z's in the back row, when called out of his somnolent state: "I'm not sleeping. I just blink real slow!" Geoff Layton >From: "Veit, Richard" <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: For you fans of folk etymology >Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:46:43 -0500 > >Student Excuse Awards: Best New Disease > > > >My wife received this email: > > > >Hello Mrs. Veit. > >How are you doing... I hope better than myself. > >I actually have a walking ammonia! No wonder I'm so ill right? I, of >course, have doctors notes for you.... > > > >On the positive side, her windows are very clean. > > > >Dick Veit > >________________________________ > >Richard Veit >Department of English >University of North Carolina Wilmington > > > > >To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface >at: > http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html >and select "Join or leave the list" > >Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/ _________________________________________________________________ WIN up to $10,000 in cash or prizes – enter the Microsoft Office Live Sweepstakes http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/aub0050001581mrt/direct/01/ To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/