[78-L] Sex sex sex sex sex

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Fri Oct 29 20:40:36 PDT 2010


http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Sexagon

Note..hexagon, redirected from sexagon.

Then there's this (nsfw):
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sexagon

Then there's when-a you-a too old to-a do it. Sex-a gone. Why-a no-a chicken?

dl

On 10/29/2010 11:36 PM, Steven C. Barr wrote:
> From: Malcolm Rockwell
>> Grrr.
>> If there's a hexagon (1st citation ca. 1656) and a nonagon (1st citation
> ca. 1688) and there is such a word as sextuple (there is) then there
> SHOULD also be a sextagon. Neither are in my 1971 or my 1985 Webster's.
> The OED? My 1971 Compact Edition Of The Oxford English Dictionary shows
> sexagon&  sexagonal.
>> That doesn't seem quite right, though, but I'll bow to the authority.
> Sexagon it is!
>> So, the most common Gennett label has a sexagonal border.
>> Anything else, kiddies?
>>
> So...what is the difference between "hexagonal" and the newly-invented
> "sexagonal"...?!
>
> Steven C. Barr
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