World English Dictionary
      humid  (ˈhjuːmɪd)  
        
      — adj 
     moist; damp: a humid day 
        
      [C16: from Latin ūmidus,  from ūmēre  to be wet; seehumectant, humour ]

      Would this be the connection? If the comedian were bad, would the person be all wet? I know that  my sense of humor is rather dry, though. 


From: Linda Comerford 
Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2011 12:08 PM
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Subject: Re: Call for vocab

"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 [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dick Veit
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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