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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 4838953, member: 12088"] OMG!! I'm a classics scholar! And I can say with some authority that the latin [I]videre[/I] is not the only root of the English word vision or video. The Greek word for 'to see' is itself an unholy marriage between an [I]opsomai[/I] (ὂψομαι) form (optics and optometrist come from this) and an [I]eidon[/I] (εἲδον) form, and though it doesn't look like it, that [I]eidon[/I] form contains within it an even older version that was spelled with a digamma which sounded like an English W. So it was pronounced [I]weidon[/I] and sometimes [I]widon[/I]. Hence our vision and video. There, I'm sure that was more information than anyone really needed or wanted to know. Go Hoyas!... er, I mean Go Huskies!!! [/QUOTE]