Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.60.0406291401350.20531@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: Crux
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 14:01:52 -0400 (EDT)
Crux, a cross. Crucial, a. severe. Scrib-o, I write. Script-um, to write. Conscription, n. a compulsory enrolment for military service. Circumscribe, v. to limit. Description, n. delineation. Scribbling, n. writing carelessly. Scriptures, n. the Bible. Describe. Prescribe. Subscribe. Scruto-or, I examine. Scrutin-ium, scrutiny. Inscrutable, a. unsearchable. Scrutinize, v. examine closely. - from A.C. Carr, The Model Etymology, Philadelphia, 1879. Circumscribe and Scriptures, inscrutable, relation among writing, power, protocol. The Latinate derivations - few Greek, and none of Anglo-Saxon or other language - our Roman culture. Civitas. Crep-o, I sound, I rattle. Crepit-um, to sound, to rattle. _