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Miscellany
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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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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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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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Re: Help!
by
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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Re: jazey
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morphememedley
05/15/08 01:47 PM
Flax? Ah yes, good fiber in the event a jazey is accidentally ingested during a windstorm.
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Re: jazey
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BranShea
05/15/08 01:11 PM
Great!
add to this:
and so called because they are made of Jersey flax and fine wool.
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Words from medicine
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Re: dyspareunia
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Jose Gros
05/15/08 01:08 PM
Hi!: I once heard about a Catalonian Psychiatrist that used to advise some of his patients masturbation as part of the therapy process, calling this obviously unadvisable practice "autoquiroerastia". As someone of you seem having an above the average
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Re: jazey
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Myridon
05/15/08 11:55 AM
Originally Posted By: tsuwmmore commonly(?), jasey.
Dictionaries, helpful or ?
jasey
a wig, esp. one made of worsted.
worsted
1. firmly twisted yarn or thread spun from combed, stapled wool fibers o
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Re: jazey
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tsuwm
05/15/08 11:53 AM
as to counting Websters, good luck with that!
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Re: jazey
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BranShea
05/15/08 11:51 AM
Right, I had it from the 1785 Vulgar Tongue and as OneLook did not give it and the Worthless did not give I thought it might be hard to find. My Webster I forgot to check and that's dumb as it often has the one thing no one else has.
Jazey
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Re: jazey
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morphememedley
05/15/08 11:38 AM
This websters gives one source for jazey as a wig and one for it as a bob wig.
I ought to take a count sometime and see how many websters/webster's there are now.
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Re: Synonym for "farmer"
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BranShea
05/15/08 11:35 AM
farmer
1. A person who operates a farm.
2. United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920).
3. An expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many editions (1857-1915).
Sourc
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Re: jazey
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tsuwm
05/15/08 11:30 AM
more commonly(?), jasey.
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