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- Tue Oct 15, 2019 11:58 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Snuck
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6154
Re: Snuck
Pretty sure sneaked would be more common in the UK, but snuck could have gained credence I guess, like the awful shrunk as the past tense of shrink.
- Tue Oct 08, 2019 7:31 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Chef
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6064
- Fri Sep 27, 2019 6:31 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Flaccid
- Replies: 13
- Views: 11295
- Thu Sep 26, 2019 11:07 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: review
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5038
Re: review
From my perspective, a review of anything could be thorough or otherwise. It doesn't imply any particular level of study.
- Fri Sep 06, 2019 6:44 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Thigmotropism
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10570
Re: Thigmotropism
If I burst into tears (as I do) at the first scene of sentimentality in a movie, does that make me thigmotropic? I am certainly moved by touching things. :D don't watch those Dog's Purpose / Journey films then whatever you do. Even me, cynical and hard bitten as I am was like a fire hydrant. Despit...
- Tue Sep 03, 2019 6:47 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Ejecta
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5182
- Fri Aug 23, 2019 6:55 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Moreish
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15149
Re: Moreish
Good point sharply made sir! So we've established there are two kinds of -ish suffix: a) a generic modifier of a woolly nature which adds nothing to a speaker's meaning but is perhaps a 'valley' style space filler b) the British fashion for making an informal, slangy expression from such modifier th...
- Tue Aug 20, 2019 6:41 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Aggregate
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4503
Re: Aggregate
Other specific meanings:
- loose stone (at least in Britain), basically gravel, though non-gravel may also be aggregate
- functions - or operations - on sets of data, e.g. average is an aggregate function, if you calculate a median you aggregate
- loose stone (at least in Britain), basically gravel, though non-gravel may also be aggregate
- functions - or operations - on sets of data, e.g. average is an aggregate function, if you calculate a median you aggregate
- Tue Aug 13, 2019 6:32 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Snog
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10631
Re: Snog
:D I guess your sources are probably right George it seems our national viewing tastes swing that way. I'll sadly :lol: never know in reference to Love Island. I have recently watched some of the US show Euphoria though, you seem to manage racy OK nowadays to be fair :oops: I do actually like the sh...
- Fri Aug 02, 2019 6:31 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Moreish
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15149
Re: Moreish
Moorish and moreish are certainly homophones in UK English. I don't think Moorish would be used except in an obviously historical way in the UK though so it would be pretty clear contextually. We don't think of Moorish as meaning Islamic - it refers specifically to Muslims from the Iberian peninsula...
- Thu Aug 01, 2019 6:24 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Moreish
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15149
Re: Moreish
It's used commonly in the UK :D This is the comedy I always think of in connection with moreish, from the absurdly cringey Peep Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbQIAp2QAUg I'll be honest, I'm not sure the show's sharp UK humour would cross the Atlantic successfully, but it was certainly funny ...
- Fri Jul 26, 2019 6:38 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Scarlet
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7845
Re: Scarlet
I imagine her snogging technique was quite finely honed.
- Thu Jul 25, 2019 6:07 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Ferrous
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5604
Re: Ferrous
Who could forget the box office cast-iron hit movie 'Ferrous Bueller's Day Off'?
- Fri Jul 05, 2019 6:16 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Hebdomadal
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4392
Re: Hebdomadal
I, on the other hand, shall essay to use it hebdomadally.
- Fri Jun 21, 2019 6:29 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Mither
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8864
Re: Mither
Maybe something to do with these folks:
https://www.lakelanddialectsociety.co.uk/our-aims
Perhaps it is more Cumbrian than Geordie if you read it right. They're not a million miles apart TBF:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9go8PDKtRAA
https://www.lakelanddialectsociety.co.uk/our-aims
Perhaps it is more Cumbrian than Geordie if you read it right. They're not a million miles apart TBF:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9go8PDKtRAA