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#1 2009-01-26 13:37:42

Peter Forster
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From: UK
Registered: 2006-09-06
Posts: 1258

'headonist' for 'hedonist'

I wasn’t aware, until I checked, that most dictionaries and therefore, assumedly, most users, would sound this as ‘heedonist’ rather than ‘headonist’. As one of a comparatively small number of English-speakers who pronounce ‘head’ as ‘heed’ it’s perhaps a little ironic. Anyway… I stumbled across this and it reminded me of Grace Slick and her White Rabbit and I thought it might be of some interest:

There are other words out there besides slut and naughty, maybe headonist, pleasure seeker, multi-orgasmic, those just off the top of my head. ...

Of course, I’m a headonist. What else is there to live for? The rest is just killing time really… I think it all went downhill when “Let’s Dance” by David …
grahamcoxon.terramail.pl/cyt.html – 17k – Cached

The Headonist. Excess in any pleasure can become a vice. Too much of a good thing leads to temptation and avarice. Caste is no barrier, all walks of life …
www.nationaldinosaurmuseum.com.au/tarot.htm – 44k – Cached

These players must really trust these side pieces for some strange reason because it seems as if their freakiest kinkiest acts of headonism …
www.s2smagazine.com/services/Board/arch … 70579.html – 77k – Cached –

I guess the 8th deadly sin in my book is “headonism”. Its sort of the addiction to feeling that “rush”. Wrath is an emotion, and its an addiction in a sense …
surveycentral.org/survey/19284.html – 102k – Cached

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