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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=GramE><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Hmm.</span></font></span><font
size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><span class=GramE>Dissertation.</span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Doesn’t the root part of ‘<span
class=SpellE><span class=GramE>dis</span></span><span class=GramE>’</span>
mean not working very well? <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><span
class=SpellE><span class=GramE>Dys</span></span><span class=GramE>-function?</span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><span class=SpellE><span class=GramE>Dis-turbance</span></span><span
class=GramE>?</span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Oh.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span><span class=GramE>Hmm. Wrong.</span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=GramE><b><u><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-weight:bold'>dissertation</span></font></u></b></span><font
size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>
- 1611, from L. <span class=SpellE><i><span style='font-style:italic'>dissertationem</span></i></span>
(nom. <span class=SpellE><i><span style='font-style:italic'>dissertatio</span></i></span>)
"discourse," from <span class=SpellE><i><span style='font-style:italic'>dissertare</span></i></span>
"debate, argue," <span class=SpellE>frequentive</span> of <span
class=SpellE><i><span style='font-style:italic'>disserere</span></i></span>
"discuss, examine," from <span class=SpellE><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>dis</span></i></span><i><span style='font-style:italic'>-</span></i>
"apart" + <span class=SpellE><i><span style='font-style:italic'>serere</span></i></span>
"to arrange words." Sense of "formal, written treatise" is
1651.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Reminds me of our colleague Allison Baensch –
wasn’t her dissertation – are you there, Allison?<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Created with a process for random
selection of words? <span class=SpellE>Er</span>…’arranged’
words?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Oh, there are so many things that I love
about you, Allison…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Warm regards from cool Berkeley,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Lisa<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><a
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target="_top"><b><font color=white><span style='color:white;font-weight:bold;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>www.geocities.com/etymonline/</span></font></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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