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Conundrum - word origin: 16th century; University Latin slang for pedant, pedantic whim or word play. Websters Unabridged 2nd Edition. So is it possible that a group of college kids, sitting around made up a Latin sounding word, used it as slang, and it is now part of our modern language used as a term denoting a perplexing situation

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