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- Mon Jun 03, 2024 8:55 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Visage
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6727
Re: Visage
I must be a rare bird, as I tend to prefer the second, more French, pronunciation.
- Mon Jun 03, 2024 7:47 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Tryst
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2621
Re: Tryst
I am regularly pleased to find something new when I re-read old messages. This word's origin never struck me before, but now... . Isn't it interesting that the Old French is now French and Spanish for "sad"? Probably unrelated etymologies, but still fun to think about. Misplaced trust can ...
- Sun Jun 02, 2024 7:05 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Desnorolator
- Replies: 5
- Views: 109
Re: Desnorolator
Well, even editors miss things. It's one of those common errors, seeing what you expect to see. Very easy to do, sadly.
- Sun Jun 02, 2024 8:04 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Recruit
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6158
Re: Recruit
I can see non-natives and computers misunderstanding definition 2. As far as I know, one does not recruit a stamp collection. They are built, though. 3 could cause a similar problem. One just doesn't say things like, "I have to go recruit my supply of Christmas stamps for this year's mailing.&q...
- Sat Jun 01, 2024 8:09 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Twitterpated
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2626
Re: Twitterpated
Fancy that, YouTube has a clip of the relevant scene; Here 'tis.
- Sat Jun 01, 2024 7:20 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Mummer
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7672
Re: Mummer
Could we call drag shows a kind of mummery? They are over-the-top splashy dress performances, no?
- Fri May 31, 2024 3:33 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Doldrums
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3136
Re: Doldrums
So much nicer to say than down in the dumps. Too bad I don't remember to use it more often.
- Fri May 31, 2024 1:25 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Gainly
- Replies: 4
- Views: 125
Re: Gainly
She'll be coming round the mountain when she is becoming nearer. Will it make her becoming? Maybe she is already? \_(ツ)_/
- Fri May 31, 2024 6:19 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Denigrate
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2967
Re: Denigrate
In case you've missed hearing this one for the last 6 years, the Hear it! link has been fixed and now goes someplace.
- Thu May 30, 2024 6:43 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Deadline
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6263
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: 2614
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: 70
Re: Picket
Welcome to the Agora, Lynne!
- Tue May 28, 2024 10:18 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Punch
- Replies: 3
- Views: 117
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: 2000
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: 6433
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 ...