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- Thu Jan 29, 2015 12:20 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Caliginous
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10940
Re: Caliginous
P S: And bless L. Frank Baum, too.
- Thu Jan 29, 2015 12:18 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Caliginous
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10940
Re: Caliginous
Bravo for recalling the Terrible Wizard of the Emerald City and his excellent if incendiary vocabulary - many thanks for the memory.
- Wed Jan 28, 2015 4:51 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Caliginous
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10940
Re: Caliginous
Or perhaps the word was devised after observation of a pending bad storm, which then dumped a blinding snowfall that finally ceased after sundown?
- Sun Jan 25, 2015 4:33 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Caliginous
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10940
Re: Caliginous
This sounds like a Lewis Carroll word, right up there with frumious bandersnatch and frabjous and thinking six impossible things before breakfast. And caliginous. Yep.
- Mon Dec 08, 2014 5:01 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Obnubilate
- Replies: 12
- Views: 13501
Re: Obnubilate
You're right, it was the noodles; I'm gluten intolerant, so pasta is verboten in my life. The repercussions are grim. You really know how to get to a person. . .
- Sun Dec 07, 2014 6:39 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Obnubilate
- Replies: 12
- Views: 13501
Re: Obnubilate
Mea culpa
- Sun Dec 07, 2014 4:31 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Obnubilate
- Replies: 12
- Views: 13501
Re: Obnubilate
Would it be possible that you were an obnubilator (-er?), if that's the correct way of saying 'one who enabled their condition' with your teaching methods? Surely not!
- Sun Dec 07, 2014 4:35 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Obnubilate
- Replies: 12
- Views: 13501
Re: Obnubilate
Oh I quite like this word. There are days when I'm so preoccupied with necessary things that "foggy" just doesn't do the state of my brain justice. I once had a sister-in-law who was lovely but a bit ditzy, and her name was Nubia. Do you suppose her parents had foreknowledge of her persona...
- Sat Sep 20, 2014 6:46 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Anodyne
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4463
Re: Anodyne
PS - and thanks!
- Sat Sep 20, 2014 6:44 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Anodyne
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4463
Re: Anodyne
I certainly can empathize with Perry Yare and his need for the daily soothing (and entertaining) qualities of the Good Word as an anodyne for the pains of the encroaching world! Please carry on, Dr. Goodword!
- Wed Jun 11, 2014 4:59 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Yes
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8390
Re: Yes
i would say "No problem,", except that it's one of my bigger pet peeves. Instead: you are most welcome, sir.
- Wed Jun 11, 2014 4:28 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Yes
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8390
Re: Yes and endothermic/exothermic properties
The daily word newsletter for June 8 featured yes. But at the bottom of the page, after the word history and the Good Doctor's sign-off, a small contained sidebar (bottom bar?) mentioned a college essay written about Hell expanding or contracting and freezing over. It sounded familiar, so I tracked ...
- Tue Jun 10, 2014 5:33 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Yes
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8390
Re: Yes, or rather, the addendum to the entry
The "yes" history was interesting, primarily because one rarely thinks about derivations of such short, common utterences. My eye was caught by the Alpha Dictionary entry, however. I've seen it before, several years ago, and was curious enough about its legendary status to check with Snope...
- Sun May 04, 2014 5:06 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Albatross
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4526
Re: Albatross
This word takes me back several decades, when I was a cabin crew member on the Freedom Birds in the early 1960s. Our flights to and from the Far East usually went north out of San Francisco and followed the polar route from Anchorage along the Aleutian chain into Japan and Indochina. But sometimes w...
- Tue Apr 22, 2014 4:17 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Technophobia
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4335
Re: Technophobia
I am married to one of these technophobes, whose communication instrument of choice is either a #2 wooden lead pencil or a ballpoint pen. Cell phones are acceptable. The computer is my bailiwick. 'S okay. Latin texere "to weave, fabricate", and Russian tkat' "to weave". This must...