Another starter for 10…
Q: What does the wonderful word tetrapiloctomy mean? No conferring now.
A: ??
Saturday 19 August, 2006
Congratulations to Bilo. He got the answer (with a little prompting). It is “splitting a hair four ways”.
Tetrapiloctomy is the activity of super-pedants. I count myself merely as a baseline pedant.
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Hair splitting?
Very good, but you have to be more specific to be able to give yourself full congratulations. It’s to do with the number of ways one splits the hair.
Tetra means four, so I guess it is splitting four ways!
Spot on!
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