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Cairns to Alice Springs

Alice and I are riding our bikes to Alice Springs from Cairns. We have a bit of a travel blog, Flickr photos and our funny little SPOT GPS tracker page.

22 June 2004

Fides

According to the Oxford Latin to English dictionary, the word fides means all these things.

  • allegiance
  • reliance
  • guarantee
  • loyalty
  • fidelity
  • faithfulness
  • engagement
  • dependence
  • promise
  • truth
  • trust
  • honour
  • conscientiousness
  • authenticity
  • faith
  • warrant

Which I reckon makes it a pretty good word to use for non-religious civil unions. I'm not sure how you'd create all the extra adjectives and verbs from it. Maybe Rach can do that part. Everything I think of sounds silly.

fidet, fiderite, fidate.

Needs some work.

Comments

  1. fidelitous bond?

    Haley / 9:17am / 22 June 2004

  2. “Mom, I’m taking the fides with John”

    Willem / 7:51pm / 22 June 2004

  3. lol and what I make up won’t sound silly?

    Ogility.

    Rach / 10:39pm / 22 June 2004

  4. Better people laugh at you than me.

    Ryan / 10:41pm / 22 June 2004

  5. I’m getting ogiled.

    Jem / 11:20am / 23 June 2004

  6. Really Jem? Did Chris finally ogilate to you? It’s about bloody time.

    Ryan / 1:57pm / 23 June 2004

  7. I thought it was impolite to ogilate girls.

    Willem / 5:03pm / 23 June 2004

  8. I know quite a lot of ogiled girls, I don’t think its impolite. But I was only being silly.

    Jem / 5:59pm / 23 June 2004

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