The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #32079   Message #427576
Posted By: Dani
28-Mar-01 - 11:27 AM
Thread Name: Barry Finn - TWO (March 2001)
Subject: RE: Barry Finn - TWO
When teaching word skills classes, one of my favorite things is to show people how related words share roots, changing meanings with prefixes, suffixes, etc. And there's nothing like the example of '-phony' to turn on the lightbulb for them. 'Euphony' means it sounds BEAUTIFUL, 'Cacophony' means it sounds like...... " ". Most people know what 'kaka' means, and don't have a hard time making the connection!

I do think that 'Poppycock' now seems like an unfortunate name for a snack...

Dani