Wordie: Littoral: Comments

Comment by chained_bear, 9 days ago

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:24:49 +0000

I was thinking the same thing, rt.

Comment by logos, 9 days ago

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:08:07 +0000

:-)

Comment by qroqqa, 9 days ago

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:28:41 +0000

Not an absolutely blemishless Latin origin though. The Latin word was lītus, lītor- "shore" and developed a variant writing littus for no good reason. The opposite happened with littera "letter", which had a ne'er-do-well variant lītera. In both cases the non-standard Latin words have prevailed, giving rise to English 'littoral' but 'literal', and likewise in other modern languages.

Comment by reesetee, 9 days ago

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:08:27 +0000

Logos? Eew.

Comment by logos, 10 days ago

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:53:39 +0000

That gal had a great pair of littorals. I could lick her littorals...literally...with my lingua.

P.S. This word has a most respectable Latin origin.

Now imagine vacationing at Myrtle Littoral. Or West Palm Littoral...licking all those littorals. Sand on the lingua .....yuck@@##!

Comment by Milosrdenstvi, 10 days ago

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:26:30 +0000

"A Long Littoral" was one of the assets of a successful country described by President T. Roosevelt.

Comment by mollusque, 8 months ago

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:18:28 +0000

"Shallow water fish or literal zone fish: These fishes lives and survive in shallow water near the shore line."
--Jack Mitchell, Central Florida Bass Fishing: The Thrill"