"Humor" relates to "damp"?  Interesting!  Does anyone know how?  A
perspiring nervous standup comedian comes to mind....
 

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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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