Wicked Wanda,

I jsut had to look up the etymology of metropolis just to see if you were right. It turns out that the prefix metro- did mean mother in the Greek.

I guess it is funny how we English speakers (or is it us English speakers) have bastardized words so far from their original meaning.

The Cunning Linguist <-Who has a hobby of murdering the English language in new and inventive ways.

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Well sir that seems to be someone else's problem.