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Re: [romanceconlang] Fwd: new body words in C-a



Barry Garcia scripsit:

> Hmmm funny, my dad used to take blood for testing at labs and he said he
> was a "plebotomist". The word must have a different meaning now. 

"Phlebotomist".  And no, the term is still current in that sense.
I walked through a door that said PHLEBOTOMY a week ago and duly got
my blood drawn -- and a good job he made of it too.

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But that, he realized, was a foolish            John Cowan
thought; as no one knew better than he          jcowan@hidden.email
that the Wall had no other side.                http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
        --Arthur C. Clarke, "The Wall of Darkness"