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- Sun Jun 02, 2024 8:04 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Recruit
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6143
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: 2615
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: 7651
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: 3128
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: 119
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: 2961
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: 6250
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: 2607
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: 59
Re: Picket
Welcome to the Agora, Lynne!
- Tue May 28, 2024 10:18 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Punch
- Replies: 3
- Views: 111
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: 1988
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: 6424
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: 70
- Mon May 27, 2024 7:34 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Memorial
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10065
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: 2683
Re: Restive
I just learned that stud is also from the same root. Steed, stallion, stand, stay, stud, etc. Not the dainty palfrey, though.