On Wednesday 30 November 2005 05:10, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Kern Sibbald wrote:
> > On Tuesday 29 November 2005 20:51, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> >>Also, a baculum is a rod or stick.
> >
> > Well, that is a slightly watered down meaning ... :-)
>
> No, it's just that zoologists co-opted the word to mean a specific bone.
>
>  :)  Just like the malleus in your middle ear isn't a real hammer.

Ah, you mean to say that if we go back to the real origins of the word that 
the "inside" story of the name is not as spicy as I thought it was, ah :-(    
Just joking, of course :-)


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Kern

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