Another Flint?

[A.E.B.Bevan at open.ac.uk]

No: HPFGUIDX 27662

"Lucy Austin" wrote:

>   I think I have found a Flint! The counter to the Stunning 
Curse 'Stupefy', is the word 'Enervate' to bring the victim back 
round ...Wouldn't 'Energate' for 'energise' have been a better 
counter spell?

Yes and for soeone with a classics degree (like Jo) its worse than a 
Flint its a Blushmaker.

See the American Heritage Dictionary online for example

http://www.bartleby.com/61/24/E0142400.html

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Sometimes people mistakenly use enervate to mean "to
invigorate" 
or "to excite" by assuming that this word is a close cousin
of the 
verb energize. In fact enervate does not come from the same source as 
energize (Greek energos, "active"). It comes from Latin 
nervus, "sinew." Thus enervate means "to cause to become
`out of 
muscle'," that is, "to weaken or deplete of
strength." 
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See also the Dictionary of English Usage

http://www.lineone.net/dictionaryof/englishusage/d0082007.html

And for Real Language LOONS see

The Vocabula Review
(Motto: A Society is generally as lax as its language )

http://www.vocabula.com/VRMAY01grumbling.htm


Jo, Jo, Jo, Jo as Gilderoy Lockhart might say...

Edis Edis Edis Edis (who has probably done something as silly 
somewhere else)