On 03-14-98 Rita Smith wrote to Bill Nichols... 
 
 MG> Extra-marital indicates adultery, so you've lost me. 
 
  > Not necessarily. };)  If you check a dictionary you'll see that 
  > while it can mean adultery, in the strictest literal sense all it 
  > really connotes is "outside of marriage," which can as well mean 
  > "in the absence of wedlock."  
 
 RS> Extra means additional. So couldn't that mean 'in addition to 
 RS> marriage'? 
 RS> Which might also mean 'adultery'?  
 
 Webster's Collegiate (10th): "extramarital: of, or relating to, 
 or being sexual intercourse between a married person and someone 
 oher than his or her spouse: ADULTEROUS". 
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