Archy

Oligarchy - From the Greek, olígos, meaning few, hence, those guys over there, with their hands in their garments; They say they'll tell everyone what needs to be done. Monarchy - Mon, variant of man, man being the singular form, i.e. all for that guy. Hierarchy - From the Germanic heir, meaning "here" the ranking of relative importance, hence, where to stand in line to get a turn. Democracy - From the Greek demos meaning many, and cracy, a variant of crazy, thus, many crazy people rule, or in biblical terms, babble. Ethnarchy - Meaning race, therefore, all those people, that all look and act and behave the same, tell the rest that they know best. Anarchy - An, a variant of and, hence, another archy. Malarkey - Those things that are to be put up with from all the other archys (and ocracies). © Goode Guy 2013-06-30