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Micturitions???

You said you needed to look that up in a larger dictionary?  Well, it
just so happens I have a copy of the OED by my desk, so I grabbed the
volume containing "M" and found...

   Micturition [from Latin micturire]
   The desire to make water; a morbid frequency in the voiding
   of urine.  Often incorrectly used for: The action of making water.

It lists the first known usage as from 1785.
If anyone cares, this is from the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford
University Press, (C) 1971.

Any other weird words?
--

Jeremy Silver wrote:
>
> >In article <9dcfqe$5s1$1@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk>, "Gunther Schmidl"
> ><gschmidl@gmx.at> wrote:
>
> >> Oh Pissing Bandit,
> >> Thy Micturitions Are To Me
> >> Like Gurgled Pinchburbles
> >> And damn I wish I had the Hitch-Hiker's Guide at hand.
> >
> >This section?[1]
> >   "Oh  freddled gruntbuggly..."  he began.  Spasms wracked  Ford's
> >body -- this was worse than even he'd been prepared for.
> >   "...thy micturations are to me / As plurdled  gabbleblotchits on
> >a lurgid bee."
> <snip>
> >[1] Yes, I have a full copy on my hard drive. I also own the book, and owned
> >an  electronic copy that I lost the disk to at one point...
>
> Funnily enough the zcode version doesnt mention "micturation" for some reason.
> ...
> "Hello, hitchhikers!" begins the Vogon Captain. "I've decided to read you a
> verse of my poetry!"
>
> >z
> Time passes...
>
> "Oh freddled gruntbuggly, thy nacturations are to me!"
>
> Hmm, going to have to look up *that* word in a larger dictionary, mine
> doesnt seem to list it.
>
> Regards- Your fellow AFDA occasional poster,
> --
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