<smile> Reminds me of the Seinfeld where George tries to do it all
concurrently, sex, food, and eating.
The thing is, I never did catch on to that 16th century trend of switching
the meanings...
http://bion.mit.edu:8000/patbin/oed-id?id=3D105999185
discrete diskrit, a. (sb.) Also 6 discreet. ad. L. discret-us `separate,
distinct', pa. pple. of discernere to separate, divide, discern: cf. later
sense of Fr. discret, discr=E8te `divided, separate'. In the sense of cl. L.
discretus, discrete was used by Trevisa (translating from L.), but app. was
not in general use till late in 16th c. But in another sense, `discerning,
prudent' (derived through French), discret, discrete was well-known in
popular use from the 14th c.; this, even in late ME., was occasionally spelt
discreet, which spelling was appropriated to it about the time that discrete
in the L. sense began to be common; so that thenceforth discrete and
discreet were differentiated in spelling as well as in meaning: see
discreet. Before this, while discrete was the prevalent form for the later
discreet, it is only rarely (see 1 <beta> below) that discreet appears for
the present discrete.
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