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Re: jeopardous
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morphememedley
Yesterday at 10:36 PM
couldous adj. concerned with possibility or capability: The motivational speaker gave his usual couldous talk.
Forget it; I made it up. Whew, now I don't have to go back and attempt to give the pronunciation.
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Re: jeopardous
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nancyk
Yesterday at 07:27 PM
Disastrous? Calamitous? Both fairly common, I think.
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Q&A about words
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Re: Sidebums
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BranShea
Yesterday at 02:59 PM
Originally Posted By: dalehileman
(2) Did anyone at first glance misread the heading as "sideburns"
Me, no. But I like your word as a headline for our avatars
here.
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Weekly Themes
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Re: Sideburns
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Myridon
Yesterday at 02:23 PM
In one of Sheri S. Tepper's books, a primitive culture is visited by a space traveller whom they mistake for a god. After all the planet's problems are solved, the space traveller leaves with the parting remark "Don't let anyone mess with your heads
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Q&A about words
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Re: Sidebums
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morphememedley
Yesterday at 02:03 PM
The stampede of IronicSans commenters who praise the new term reminds me of lemmings.
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Q&A about words
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Re: Help!
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tsuwm
Yesterday at 12:51 PM
and then Sonic (the Hedgehog) declaimith not:
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face
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Re: Help!
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BranShea
Yesterday at 12:23 PM
First, thanks for the acronym. We nontechnical outlanders take those words coming in from English for granted. I never knew.
About Google, yes, I know it says Google, but I like to look at the 'double' layer and then I play the little game
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Re: Sidebums
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tsuwm
Yesterday at 11:37 AM
from Tues. Apr 8:
the worthless word for the day is: keming
[fr. misreading kerning] /KEM ing/
the result of improper kerning
(a new typography term: keming )
kerning - the addition or removal of space b
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Sidebums
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dalehileman
Yesterday at 11:23 AM
It's an interesting peculiarity with some PC fonts that "rn" looks like "m", "ri" looks like "n","vv" looks like "w", etc etc. (1) Does this bother anybody else but me who thinks it all ought to be fixed, and
(2) Did anyone at first glanc
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Words from medicine
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Re: dyspareunia
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zmjezhd
Yesterday at 10:24 AM
"autoquiroerastia"
well, qu is not something you find in Greek words. It doesn't bring to mind anything in Latin. (Perhaps it's related to the Catalan cognate of Spanish querer 'to want, desire' which is from Latin quaro, quaerare, 'to loo
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Re: dyspareunia
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of troy
Yesterday at 10:00 AM
re: calling this obviously unadvisable practice
why? there is now evidence (scant, but...) that masturbation is healthy for men (the jury is still out on woman)
(and now i am thinking about the root meaning of masturbation..Urba
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Re: Help!
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tsuwm
Yesterday at 09:55 AM
laser is actually an acronym : Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. [EA]
look closer at the image, it's intended to read 'Google'; e.g., the last character is l.c. 'e', not 'Z'..
-ron o.
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Re: Help!
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BranShea
Yesterday at 06:40 AM
Google celebrating the anniversary ? of the invention of the first lazer by changing its name to GDOXIZ ?
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Q&A about words
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Re: Help!
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olly
Yesterday at 06:09 AM
Something Lunary returns some interesting results.
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Re: Help!
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The Pook
Yesterday at 05:47 AM
I think if it is a recurring event you would just say "this month's xyz" or if it is just to mark a month since a once off xyz happened, you would say "it's been a month since xyz." There is no commonly used single word term.
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Re: Sideburns
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The Pook
Yesterday at 04:16 AM
Originally Posted By: BranShea Originally Posted By: zmjezhdsideburns
Are they not the corners of the beard? (link and link). Are these the ten commandments and a lot more?
5) They shall not make baldness upon their head, n
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