Reading the Merriam Webster Dictionary Backwards
September 21, 2014 Sunday
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I would love for you to share your thoughts, comments, anecdotes on these words on this blog. Thanks. Glenn :)
wood nymph: a dryad
dryad: [Latin dryad tree] a wood nymph (see 'nymph,' below)
I love the tautological definitions that crop up in the dictionary. I will start an index of tautologies as well under the first post for this blog. I decided that for every definition that includes a word or concept that I an not familiar with, I would look up that new word elsewhere in the dictionary…or do some investigating. Interesting.
nymph: [Latin nympha bride] one of the minor divinities of nature in ancient mythology represented as beautiful maidens in the woods, forests, mountains, trees…
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