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Saturday, August 11, 2007

Pyramid: Word Origin







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Is it beyond the limits of any known sense that the word "pyramid" derives from Greek soldiers' descriptions of the Egyptian monuments as "wheat cakes"? Idiom investigator John Ciardi takes a look. 


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