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Old 11-06-2012, 11:50 PM
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electorally? electronically? electrically?... lol... while it sounds absurd, but these words do have a common beginnings - electro (elektra) is a greek word for amber... derived from given by the sun, or sunny gift - something to that effect... greeks used stones to cast their votes and while i do not know for a fact, i suspect that some nobles used ambers to cast their elite vote... hence, elector, electoral college, elections... also, the same amber was used to produce static electricity, for whatever reason it might be and the phenomenon of the electricity was called... well... electricity... and all the other things, like electron, electric...

good thing we are not discussing "testemony" - even better explantion why we say nowdays, grab someone by the "balls"... lol...
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