Tuesday 28 June 2005

Wordyrappinghood

Why is the word 'long' shorter than the word 'short'?
Why is 'big' smaller than 'small'?
Why is 'enormous' smaller than 'miniscule'?
Why is 'thin' bigger than 'fat'?

These issues have been puzzing me for some days now and it's getting hard to concentrate on anything else...

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