> From: "Dr Bernarr" <[log in to unmask]>
 > To: <[log in to unmask]>
 > Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 9:19 AM
 > Subject: Re: news: woman dies while fasting
 >

 > Appendix etymologically is derived from the
 > Latin meaning "hanging, worm-shaped form".


i don't know anything about the Latin word for
"worm-shaped form", but the word appendix is
etymologically derived from the Latin verb
_appendere_, which means "to hang upon".

think about the way the "appendix" at the back
of a book is "hung upon" the rest of the text
of the book ... get it?

-monz