brrrrrrr

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It strikes me as odd that hypothermia is such an important concept whenever dealing with the world outside our protective shell of modern technology, yet our word for it is long and Latinate. It wasn't even coined until 1886! Why isn't there some gritty little Anglo-Saxon word for it?

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Damn, you beat me to it.

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But I win on nerd-points, because I looked up the etymology (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dead) on the intartubes:

[Middle English ded, from Old English dēad; see dheu-2 in Indo-European roots.]