Re: Before certification, know your Redux

Subject: Re: Before certification, know your Redux
From: Steve Fouts <stefou -at- ESKIMO -dot- COM>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 10:07:42 -0700

Kim Cramer said:

>Dave Whelan said:
>> I'd like to become certified to use the word "Redux", does anyone know what
>> it means?
>
>I looked it up in Webster's Ninth New Collegiate:
>
>redux: adj. Brought back - used postpositively. From the French
>
>reducere, to lead back.

Actually, my dictionary doesn't have the word in it. The closest it
gets is

reduviid n: any of a family of blood-sucking hemipterous insects
comprising the assassin bugs.

Perhaps, in context, this is close enough.



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