>>>>>>>Just a thought - Just imagine if we still a 8" floppies and you had to order VS 2012 on them.
>>>>>>>It would cause a bit of a stir when a semi pulls up to make the delivery.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Pardon the uninitiated, semi-what? Semicircle, semicolon, semiprecious stone, semiquaver, semitone, semiconductor...?
>>>>>
>>>>>Semi-articulated (but I know you were kidding)
>>>>
>>>>I have seriously omitted all that weren't nouns from the list, no kidding.
>>>>
>>>>I just can't get over something so big being called half. And nobody really knowing what's the whole that it's half of.
>>>
>>>But 'semi' can mean 'partial' - not just 'half'
>>>
>>>To comply with the latter meaning you would have to nail another house onto all currently 'semi-detached' ones :-}
>>
>>We call 'em duplexes around here :-)
>
>But then there's full- and half-duplex ;)

Around here - half a duplex is a detached home :-)