Don't forget http://www.m-w.com/home.htm. It is where I go to try to
interpret Harvey.
Main Entry: 2peripatetic
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle French & Latin; Middle French peripatetique, from Latin
peripateticus, from Greek peripatEtikos, from peripatein to walk up and
down, discourse while pacing (as did Aristotle), from peri- + patein to
tread; akin to Sanskrit patha path -- more at FIND
Date: 1566
1 capitalized : ARISTOTELIAN
2 a : of, relating to, or given to walking b : moving or traveling from
place to place : ITINERANT
- peri·pa·tet·i·cal·ly /-ti-k(&-)lE/ adverb
- Peri·pa·tet·i·cism /-'te-t&-"si-z&m/ noun
But most of the time that doesn't even help me.
John
"Gerhard Selzer" wrote in message
news:3C3CFD3E.75E0B75@bellsouth.net...
> Paul,
>
> Before you even bother get up to look at your rarely used
> Cambridge dictionary again just go to the short cut:
>
> http://www.onelook.com/index.html
> http://www.yourdictionary.com/#top
>
> It has a specific list of "Applicable words for the Day" to
> identify any of Harvey's particular choices.
>
> Gerhard
>
>
> Harvey wrote:
> >
> > > I just grabbed that number out of the sky, probably from a list of
fixes for
> > > XP, or have they only got 6.
> >
> > Actually, it's "Hands On A House" that has those 18 changes.
> >
> > And that's on the *first* page. The others are so innumerable that it
> > boggles the mind. But no matter, it's still usable as a doorstop.
> >
> > -your peripatetic reporter.
> >
> >