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Activity for David Richerby‭

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Edit Post #38044 Initial revision almost 5 years ago
Edit Post #35881 Initial revision almost 5 years ago
Answer A: Should I use the words "pyromancy" and "necromancy" even if they don't mean what people think they do?
You are falling victim to the etymological fallacy: the false belief that the original meaning of a word is somehow its one true meaning. If you look up "necromancy" in dictionaries, you find things like: - "the act of communicating with the dead in order to discover what is going to happen in the ...
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about 5 years ago
Answer A: Are wands in any sort of book going to be too much like Harry Potter?
The Oxford English Dictionary (subscription needed) says that "wand" has meant "A magic rod; the staff used in enchantments by a fairy or a magician" for more than 600 years: > - a1400–50 [The] Wars [of] Alex[ander] 57 On hiȝt in his a hand haldis a wand And kenely be coniurisons callis to him sprit...
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over 5 years ago