They got another one
Well, those delightful savages in Iraq have "sawed" off the head of another American. It's sad, it's awful, it's evil, and there's no end in sight, but I do have a somewhat macrabe question.
Why do we say "behead" instead of "dehead?" We say bedeck to mean put something on something else. Shouldn't behead mean to place a head on something? Oh, maybe its because they used to put heads on pikes? "We offed his head and beheaded a pike."
Why do we say "behead" instead of "dehead?" We say bedeck to mean put something on something else. Shouldn't behead mean to place a head on something? Oh, maybe its because they used to put heads on pikes? "We offed his head and beheaded a pike."
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be·head ( P ) Pronunciation Key (b-hd)
tr.v. be·head·ed, be·head·ing, be·heads
To separate the head from; decapitate.
[Middle English biheden, from Old English behafdian: be-, away from; see be- + hafod, head; see head.]
Stupid post got screwed up. The prefix be- also means "away from"
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