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Chris -- 2025-05-10
‘Chronic’ is derived from the Greek khronos ‘time’ and is usually used to mean long-lasting, intractable. Coronic, masquerading as an adjective, comes from the Latin ‘corona’, meaning crown. Around 1968 a researcher spotted the the first of our flourishing family of viruses under an electron microscope and named it corona after its halo of bristly spikes thereby delivering a delayed death blow to several beer, pop (soda), coffee and cigar companies.
Much usage is pre-pandemic so the association must be something other than CV-19 induced? Once that crown is on your head it is permanent, barring abdication of course.
(Too many miles away is a cheery little bar called Y Coron, or Y Goron, ‘The Crown’. I wish I lived within walking distance. There is a chronic shortage of public houses in my locality.)
Mostly Common Disease basically is a coronic condition due to abnormal high level of sugar in the blood.
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Lot of new stuff for me in that post, Peter. I had not run into coronic yet, but will be on the lookout and doubtless will see it around somenoun’s head soon.
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Cerveza Corona is still alive and well in Mexico, and I just read it is the most copiously imported beer (should be copiously imitated, should it not?) in the U.S. Unfortunately, I never learned to like beer, particularly, so have not missed having an (or is it a?) Y Goron nearby. You can buy Corona in the local Gualmar (Walmart) and elsewhere.
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