---------- > From: Susan Kline <skline@proaxis.com> > To: pianotech@ptg.org > Subject: Hawkeye Harriet (off-topic) > Date: Thursday, July 10, 1997 10:06 AM > > >Sorry but I could not find "idetic" in the dictonary. > "eidetic" It is probably a new word, since several sources didn't list it. > Quoting from "Encarta" (good grief, reduced to quoting from "Encarta"???): Would you rather be a mouse in the Webster III run-a-round? eidetic... relating to eide. eide, plural of eidos. eidos, something that is seen or intuited. Of course make sure you read def 2 unless you want to be "a-mazed" > "In general, memories are less clear and detailed than perception, but > occasionally a remembered image is complete in every detail. This > phenomenon, known as eidetic imagery, is usually found in children, who > sometimes project the image so completely that they can spell out an entire > page of writing in an unfamiliar language that they have seen a short time." > > > > I didn't have the experience or maxchy (how the heck do you spell > >that??) to say, "Well, in that case, she should be satisfied" > > > >Richard with Mocksay > > > > > "moxie" (from Thesaurus): backbone daring courage nerve spunk grit > > Susan-speller And good ole Webster III unabridged for word origins. I forgot, is that entymology?. Moxie it reports is?/was? the trade name for a soft drink. and is slang for energy, pep, life.... The famous # 2 definition has it as slang for courage, pluck, audacity, stamina, backbone... And I thought it was a Yiddish word. I must have been thinking of hutspa, or is that huxpah? Richard Lexographer and orthographer Not
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