From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!qubix!lab
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Re: An interesting word derivation
Article-I.D.: qubix.169
Posted: Fri Mar 18 16:46:35 1983
Received: Tue Mar 22 06:41:59 1983
References: eagle.815

The statement on "cretin" was incomplete, cf Webster's New World Dict.:

"[< Fr. dial form of chretien, Christian, hence human being]"

Further, note that it derived during the well-named Dark Ages, when
the Anabaptists were persecuted.

Too, it's been a while since I saw a drinking "bout" at a "symposium."