[lbo-talk] etymology

[Mycos]

Doug Henwood wrote:
> Any etmyology experts on this list? Some hyper-PC dude on the WBAI 
> producers' list claims that "terrorist" comes from the same root as 
> "terrestrial" - because terrorist = dirt. Dictionaries do not confirm 
> this, but...
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Certainly no expert, but the "scholar" search option of the 
Googlebar (Scholar + Googlebar???.LOL)  , gave me this "The 
etymology of the term terror begins with the Latin verb terrere, 
mean- ing “to arouse fear.”

http://tinyurl.com/cgnxy

http://scholar.google.com/url?sa=U&q=http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/index/ADVC4NFHYDR6XBMM.pdf
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Gary Williams

"Over himself, over his own body and mind, the
individual is sovereign."   - John Stuart Mill

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