BMO  +  47143 Fri, 24 Sep 04 02:51 PM Good idea to have this separate forum. Latin cadere is to fall. When a man falls into a ditch, we say it is an accident. The side the sun falls is the west; we call people living in the west, westerner or occidental. (The people living on the side the sun rises are oriental.) Accidental and occidental have the same Latin root, cadere, to fall. BMO Joined on Tue, Aug 17 2004 Full Member 164

	jennyji  +  47383 Sun, 26 Sep 04 07:58 AM I think it is really very good and novel to explain this word in this way. so maybe we can think many different ways to explain english words, and thus it may seem not so difficult to memorize it at all jennyji Joined on Sun, Sep 26 2004 Junior Member 54

	BMO  +  47456 Sun, 26 Sep 04 08:37 PM from a website: And this is the main disadvantage of Turkey: It is not easy to leave the homelands and fix the own troops in the Occident. Occident (capital O): The countires of Europe and the Western Hemisphere. He lives in the Orient; she lives in the Occident. Capital both Os. BMO

	BMO  +  47460 Sun, 26 Sep 04 08:50 PM Lavatory aft: Have you seen this sign on an airplane? That is "Restrooms in the back of the airplane." Latin lavare is to wash. Lave, lava, lavish and lavatory all have this same Latin root, lavare, to wash. Lave - to wash Lava - volcano's melted rocks Lavish - extravagant. Have you heard of "spend money like water?" BMO

	f_shahzad  +  89669 Wed, 13 Apr 05 07:17 PM give me A to Z list of synonyms and antonyms f_shahzad Joined on Wed, Apr 13 2005 New Member 01 Synonyms, Antonyms

	LanguageLover  +  89763 Thu, 14 Apr 05 01:15 AM Nice posts BMO, keep posting them. Following your comments, I took some Spanish classes for a few months, I loved it, but I gave it up just because I am too lazy! ( A lame excuse, I know!) Anyway, it was so interesting for me to find out about the roots of "dormitory", "adieu", "martyr",.... And yes, knowing the roots makes it a lot easier to learn the words that sound non-English, and difficult to remember! Cheers, LanguageLover Joined on Fri, Feb 25 2005 Contributing Member 1,507 The similarities among the languages are more than their differences!