Re: Meaning of combobulated
From: Dylan Sung (dylanwhs.tsktsktsk_at_pacific.net.hk)
Date: 06/19/04
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Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 21:04:42 +0100
<endipatterson@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Someone here is having a laugh. The word disturb has been in the
> English language since at least 1599 and has nothing to do with India,
> Sikhism or turbans. According to the Shorter Oxford Dictionary, it
> comes from latin and has the same root (turba) as turbulent. The
> prefix dis- has always had an aditional meaning of spreading forth,
> and this is what it means here.
>
> Please reserve jokes like this to April the first.
Yes, most perturbing.
Dyl.
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