-=> Quoting Bill Nichols to Rita Smith <=-
 RS> > MG> Extra-marital indicates adultery, so you've lost me.
 
 RS> > Not necessarily. };)  If you check a dictionary you'll see that
 RS> > while it can mean adultery, in the strictest literal sense all it
 RS> > really connotes is "outside of marriage," which can as well mean
 
 RS>Extra means additional. So couldn't that mean 'in addition to marriage'?
 RS>Which might also mean 'adultery'? 
 BN> Nope, extra means "out of" or "apart from," same as intra means
 BN> within, as in "intranet" or "intramural."  [Never mess with a guy
 BN> who does words for a living. ]
 My dictionary must be outdated. It says "extra" means "additional".
 BN> The "additional"  concept of the connotation of extra-as-
 BN> in-additional as a primary meaning is actually a fairly recent
 BN> construct.
 Oh. Okay. My dictionary isn't outdated, then. The definitions contained
 therein are recent additions. :)
TTYL
Rita
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