"asadi" wrote in message
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...Most people aren't too well up on words you
know....look at how many have asked over the years what a 'clave' is.

We tell them it's short for conclave. And now there is a whole generation
who think that 'conclave' is a special event held by the Catholic Church
after a Pope dies. I daresay most of the newscasters who are using it
everyday do not know from whence the word 'conclave' comes...

Little known fact: yeah, most people think that "clave" is deprived from the
"conclave" that selects yer Catholic Pope. In fact, it's what ya call an
eponym......an homage to John Ratzenberger, yer patronal saint of ROFF.

Wolfgang
logodaedalus nonpareil