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Word of the Day
franknbea
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Word of the Day
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Good Morning and Happy Saturday Everyone!
Today �s word is: Psithurism
All guesses welcome, the funnier the better. |
4 Sep 2010
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Greek Professor
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Good Morning Frank....Everyone...
A!..That �s a greek word....Shsss...the teacher will hear us... |
4 Sep 2010
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SueThom
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Hm, it does look Greek. OK, isn �t the 1st part (psi) a letter in the Greek alphabet? Or is it related to "psych" as in psychology, psychiatrist, etc.?
And "thurism" is "tourism" spelled incorrectly.
Conclusion: it �s the study of being a tour guide for mentally disturbed people.
OK, now I �ve got to go look it up!
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4 Sep 2010
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donapeter
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It is a disease like rheumatism. |
4 Sep 2010
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clarinha
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It sounds like something I do a lot ... psychological tourism, nowadays known ...
as virtual tourism. |
4 Sep 2010
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Apodo
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Sounds like a medical condition.
Hallucinations caused by a lack of thorium. |
4 Sep 2010
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viccxx
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Oh, come on, you should eliminate all Greeks from the competition when you choose these words!! It �s not fair to all the others...
Honestly, I didn �t even know this word was in the English vocabulary...It must be Greek to all of you!
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4 Sep 2010
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mariannina
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Psi is the sound we do in Italian to call someone: ps ps ps
tourism it �s the action of going around visiting places
psitourism: it is an Italian tourist that is calling someone while visiting something!!! |
4 Sep 2010
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mirelli
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ok..ok..
In portuguese psi sounds like "piscina" wich is swimming pool, sooooo it �s a tourism over the swimming pool!!!!!
lol |
4 Sep 2010
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martinasvabova
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In Czech psi means dogs. So it might be tourism for dogs.
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4 Sep 2010
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Fallen Angel
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Psi-related to parapsychology
thurism- the same as tourism
So psithurism must be: going somewhere in order to have some parapsychological activity |
4 Sep 2010
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