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- Thu May 30, 2024 6:43 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Deadline
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6216
Re: Deadline
If I understand correctly, line comes from Latin linum, which meant flax. As flax was turned into the thread to make cloth, it also meant linen and the thread to make it. That thread is the connecting thread to today's meaning of line.
- Wed May 29, 2024 6:45 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Sarcophagus
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2596
Re: Sarcophagus
"I'm so hungry, I'm hippophagus." Any takers?
- Wed May 29, 2024 9:32 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Picket
- Replies: 1
- Views: 40
Re: Picket
Welcome to the Agora, Lynne!
- Tue May 28, 2024 10:18 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Punch
- Replies: 3
- Views: 98
Re: Punch
Ah, but is not this punch actually intentionally damaging? Punching the passenger's ticket so it can't be reused? As an additional thought, how did awl become almost strictly for leatherworking? It's a pointy punch, and we use both words, but they aren't interchangeable. While you may have a whole a...
- Tue May 28, 2024 8:02 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Chrysalis
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1967
Re: Chrysalis
With the upcoming 'cicadapocalypse', this is a timely word. I'd forgotten that the 'chrys' part is from the Greek for gold. A hint to Poe there? Not likely, but I felt like tossing that in.
- Tue May 28, 2024 7:36 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Alterity
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6397
Re: Alterity
The innate human distrust of alterity is a problem that has plagued us for all history, as far as I know. Even within the diverse groups it exists, with inner groupings becoming smaller and smaller. Yet we are, as someone much wiser than I said, a political animal, and we need to be with others. As ...
- Mon May 27, 2024 12:29 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Borough
- Replies: 1
- Views: 62
- Mon May 27, 2024 7:34 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Memorial
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10019
Re: MEMORIAL
Happy Memorial Day to one and all!
- Sat May 25, 2024 7:05 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Restive
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2673
Re: Restive
I just learned that stud is also from the same root. Steed, stallion, stand, stay, stud, etc. Not the dainty palfrey, though.
- Sat May 25, 2024 3:17 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Convivial
- Replies: 4
- Views: 162
Re: Convivial
Still "Coming Soon", so no one to talk to.
- Fri May 24, 2024 5:30 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Convivial
- Replies: 4
- Views: 162
Re: Convivial
I suppose it might be more appropriate to post this under convenient , but as it made me think of this word, I'll put it here. There is a new shop opening in my little city. "Coming soon, Convivence Store!" So, naturally, I tried to make a portmanteau out of that, coming up with a convenie...
- Fri May 24, 2024 9:34 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Parole
- Replies: 2
- Views: 116
Re: Parole
Anyone care to come up with a theory on how a root for bath/bath-house also went along to become pain, anguish, and torture? Ouch!
- Thu May 23, 2024 6:00 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Clamor
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2631
Re: Clamor
."The clamor for gun safety laws is rising fast in America."
Sadly, in space no one hears you scream.
Witness battue.
- Thu May 23, 2024 5:27 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Dozen
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6509
Re: Dozen
That's what I get for assuming I did it right. Fixed now.
- Wed May 22, 2024 8:51 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Oeuvre
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3246
Re: Oeuvre
I've forgotten my high-school French sufficiently to have to ask, is the 'd'oeuvre' of the 'chef' and 'hors' phrases pronounced differently or the same in their home country?