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- Wed Dec 02, 2015 11:17 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: virtual
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11951
Re: virtual
Damoge noted (on Fri Oct 23, 2015) that: this getting old business is not fun. I find that I'm spending a lot more time than I used to reflecting on "the hereafter"; whenever I go into a room my first thought is almost always "Now what did I come in here after?" My mother had a f...
- Wed Dec 02, 2015 10:59 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: virtual
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11951
Re: virtual
And is a "smart phone" virtually smart because it can perform more functions than I can (the same being true of nearly any man's pre-pubescent granddaughter), or is a camera that can also determine the shortest and/or quickest driving route between Lewisburg & New Monia, Pennsylvania a...
- Sat Aug 01, 2015 4:57 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Cronyism
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6761
Re: Cronyism
I just learned, to my sadness, that Ms. Dawn Shawley--a crony of mine, if you will, is no longer at Lexateria, and I shall greatly miss her good humor. There were many times when I felt I could safely vent to her without reprisal (such as my recent submission seven full days before a gnat's-eye vari...
- Sat Aug 01, 2015 8:27 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Cronyism
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6761
Re: Cronyism
In the extended family of "Cronyism", Dr. G. notes that: Crone comes from Old French carogne "carrion", a word based on Latin caro, carn- "flesh", found in carnivorous "flesh-eating" and chili con carne, which means "chili with meat" in Spanish. whic...
- Mon Jul 27, 2015 9:44 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Zeal & Zealot
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5396
Zeal & Zealot
IMHO it doesn't require a great leap of faith to conclude the existence of a nexus between "zeal"--most often taken as synonymous with "enthusiasm"--and the followers of Simon Zelotes, the 11th (and arguably most obscure) Disciple of Christ (although the "enthusiasm" of...
- Thu Jul 02, 2015 6:44 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: File'
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6155
File'
Pronounced "fee-lay" (as in "file' gumbo"), Perry Lassiter can probably attest that this essential ingredient in 'Cajun cooking (made from "scratch") is very finely ground sassafras leaves. Until this century my family lived on acreage with several sassafras trees; the ...
- Wed Jun 03, 2015 4:56 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: "Scratch"
- Replies: 8
- Views: 13456
Re: "Scratch"
ebernston's summary of the obvious and implied uses of, and manners of preparing "scratch" was a beautifully eloquent tribute to this elusive and heretofore ill-defined but essential part of today's life. I haven't checked, but would wager a small amount that there was a time--probably in ...
- Wed May 27, 2015 8:19 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: "Scratch"
- Replies: 8
- Views: 13456
"Scratch"
Am I the only one who has wondered what "scratch" looks/feels/smells/tastes like? For some reason I picture it having a somewhat granular texture, like corn meal, to which water must be added before use. While remaining a "mystery material" as far as specific qualities are concer...
- Wed May 27, 2015 12:15 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Good Words Five Days a Week
- Replies: 22
- Views: 43806
Re: Good Words Five Days a Week
When I voted "No" it was my intent for that answer to simply be taken as an indication of my support and encouragement. I hadn't realized that GWotD wasn't like a public library--an analogy used with apparent success by Wikipedia: available and free to all and operated by a large cadre of ...
- Thu May 07, 2015 8:58 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: COCKPIT
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5624
COCKPIT
I know that this is a term most often used to refer to where a pilot (and perhaps a co-pilot, navigator, etc.) sits, but why call it a "cockpit"? Why not a "PGA", for "Pilot's Guidance Area"--or, for those local hillbilly cropdusters of Tree Top Airlines--"pure gra...
- Fri Apr 17, 2015 10:07 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Loo
- Replies: 26
- Views: 32593
Re: Loo
Dr. G. must have been a bit rushed when he wrote that: Two guys were moving an outhouse when one of their jackets dropped into the whole without giving so much as a hint as to how the jacket managed (presumably without any help from "the guy") to shuck itself from its wearer, and of its ow...
- Thu Apr 16, 2015 9:19 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: brolly
- Replies: 5
- Views: 11318
brolly
This (plural: brollies) was used by a "cousin 'cross the pond"; contextually, I take it to mean some kind of fold-up awning or shelter. I'd like to know how good a guesser I am and, of course, from whence it came to be in the English language.
- Tue Apr 14, 2015 2:08 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Loo
- Replies: 26
- Views: 32593
Re: Loo
I've restrained myself for as long as I can: In the latter half of the previous century, one of the largest employers in the southern half of Mississippi was the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation, located in Pascagoula, on the Gulf coast between Keesler Air Force Base and Mobile. Its usual complement...
- Wed Apr 08, 2015 11:42 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Eisegesis
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6888
Re: Eisegesis
According to http://www.gotquestions.org: Exegesis and eisegesis are two conflicting approaches in Bible study. Exegesis is the exposition or explanation of a text based on a careful, objective analysis. The word exegesis literally means “to lead out of.” That means that the interpreter is led to hi...
- Mon Mar 30, 2015 4:40 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Expletive
- Replies: 12
- Views: 15121
Re: Expletive
Deleting forceful expletives removes one of the ways that a speaker's audience can capture the intensity of a forcefully-delivered ejaculation to a gasping audience, leaving the listener or reader dissatisfied with the resulting elephantine pregnancy that brought forth a mouse.