https://moodle.uwtsd.ac.uk/mod/forum/view.php?f=26845 Linguistic curiosities Moodle en (c) 2025 UWTSD Moodle https://moodle.uwtsd.ac.uk/theme/image.php/learnr/core/1765381289/i/rsssitelogo https://moodle.uwtsd.ac.uk 140 35 https://moodle.uwtsd.ac.uk/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=131467&parent=217821 Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:54:36 GMT by Tom Norton. &nbsp;<p><p>In our last Lysias session I suggested that παροινία,  a drunken bout (s.45) had something to do with 'paranoia'. Not so. I should have read the word more carefully and realised that the key element in the word is<em> οἶνος - </em>English derivatives include <em>oenology. </em>There is a perfectly good word for <em>paranoia</em> in Greek: <span style="font-size:1rem;">παράνοια with the key element being νοῦς. I obviously confounded the two words. Or as the philosopher Homer Simpson (surely the equal of Aristotle) would say: Doh!</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:1rem;">Best</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:1rem;">Tom</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:1rem;">22 December 2025</span></p> <p></p></p> https://moodle.uwtsd.ac.uk/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=131467&parent=217821