jerbee
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- I'm a Fish!
The title says it all. I'm a urinator, too, and proud of it. In fact, I'm a professional urinator. I didn't realize that I was a urinator until I came across a random passage in a book dealing with Ancient Rome referencing the "guild of urinators" - a guild of divers (usually salvage divers) who would go down to up to 30m with a copper bell over their heads.
In Latin there is a curious twist in that whereas urina means “urine,” the verb urinare means “to dive,” and to the Romans a urinator was a diver - an example of a deceptive cognate. Urinator: a diver (from L. urinare < urinor, to plunge under water, dive)
In Latin there is a curious twist in that whereas urina means “urine,” the verb urinare means “to dive,” and to the Romans a urinator was a diver - an example of a deceptive cognate. Urinator: a diver (from L. urinare < urinor, to plunge under water, dive)