Re: [Dixonary] Round 2432, PHENAKISM: The results

[Daniel Widdis]

Fun!

I went to look up the woid (after voting, of course) and didn't find it
but I did find a "phenakistoscope" which is an early animation device (one
of those spinning wheels which produces the effect of movement). I didn't
read far enough to see the etymology pointed to #20, and just assumed that
all those of us voting for #3 got it right with retinal impressions. Go
figure!

It seems Millie has been dealing a lot lately!

Dan

On 8/16/13 7:28 AM, Dodi Schultz wrote:

>
>As I did as I ended the previous round I dealt, I turn over the dealer's
>chair to Millie Morgan, whose retinal impression (#3) impressed seven
>players.


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[Dodi Schultz]

On 8/16/2013 12:22 PM, Dan Widdis wrote:
> Fun!
>
> I went to look up the woid (after voting, of course) and didn't find it . . .

I picked it up a year or two ago when the OED had a two-week free online
browsing period. It's online at Wiktionary, which uses the OED definition,
though without attribution. It's also online at Collins (a British
dictionary), whose def is worded a bit differently:
http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/phenakism

And it's in /M-W II/, which isn't online; the def there is "deception" and
the origin is the Greek "phenakismos", which means exactly the same thing.

—Dodi

> but I did find a "phenakistoscope" which is an early animation device (one
> of those spinning wheels which produces the effect of movement). I didn't
> read far enough to see the etymology pointed to #20, and just assumed that
> all those of us voting for #3 got it right with retinal impressions. Go
> figure!
>
> It seems Millie has been dealing a lot lately!
>
> Dan
>
> On 8/16/13 7:28 AM, Dodi Schultz wrote:
>
>> As I did as I ended the previous round I dealt, I turn over the dealer's
>> chair to Millie Morgan, whose retinal impression (#3) impressed seven
>> players.
>

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[Judy Madnick]

Gotta' love those "killer players"! They ensure that I don't have to "deal"! LOL!

Judy



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Dated: 8/16/2013 12:31:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixonary] Round 2432, PHENAKISM: The results


Millie is a killer player! It seems as if she's on about every third round.

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