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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:	The Joy of Lex
Notice:	A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:	THEBAY::SYSTEM

Created:	Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:	Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1192
Total number of notes:	42769

314.0. "It's BLANK-O-RAMA!" by DECWET::MITCHELL () Tue Feb 03 1987 03:33

We've heard it all our lives, but has anyone ever stopped to think of what
the suffix "orama" means?  It comes from the Greek word *horama* meaning
"sight" and *horan* meaning "to see."  Thus, panorama means "to see all."
A *cyclorama* is that which is seen all around.  Band-o-rama means see the
band.  Dance-o-rama means see the dance.  You get the picture.


John M.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
314.1	Then how do you explain "Bananorama"?	REGENT::EPSTEIN	Bruce Epstein	`Tue Feb 03 1987 11:45`	1

314.2	I "SEE" what you mean	SAHQ::LILLY		`Tue Feb 03 1987 11:49`	2
	I think I get it. In other words, viewing the late Kate Smith would be a cycloramic experience. (Anyone around who remembers Kate?)
314.3		DECWET::SHUSTER	Writers on the storm...	`Tue Feb 03 1987 17:01`	2
	amar-o-rama : see the palindrome.
314.4		DECWET::MITCHELL		`Tue Feb 03 1987 17:45`	6
	Ramaorama: To see a Hindu god. John M.
314.5		INK::KALLIS	Hallowe'en should be legal holiday	`Tue Feb 03 1987 20:49`	8
	Re .1: Oh! See the banana! ;-) Steve Kallis, Jr.
314.6		SSDEVO::GOLDSTEIN		`Tue Feb 03 1987 22:04`	2
	Windexorama: to see one's way clear
314.7	another one!!!	VAXINE::PITARD	I are a school of high graduat,	`Wed Feb 04 1987 00:37`	10
	Oh, no!! Not another one!!! Sex-o-rama = to see sex from all angles!! lots and lots of 8^) /^PiT^\
314.8	ooops	STOWMA::LANGE		`Fri Feb 06 1987 13:50`	2
	Actually .1, it's Bananarama... meaning to see them ram-a-banana....;^}