Despite the medical profession's passion for nomenclature, which has led to Latin names for nearly all body parts, toes remain anonymous. In medical circles the big toe is known as hallux, but the rest are just numbered. Now a Yale University doctor has suggested a new naming method. He suggests renaming the big toe porcellus fori. The other toes, in sequence, would then become porcellus domi, porcellus carnivorus, porcellus non vorratus and porcellus piorans domum.
Translated from the Latin, his new digital repertoire would be: piggie at market, piggie at home, piggie eating roast beef, piggie having none and piglet crying (weeweewee) all the way home.
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
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