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- Sat Oct 01, 2022 2:54 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Foible
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2869
- Fri Sep 30, 2022 7:38 pm
- Forum: Spelling
- Topic: Between You and Me
- Replies: 2
- Views: 17500
Re: Between You and Me
All of us here in the hinterlands pronounce the e in forte 'n we ain't agonna change fer nobody. The only use we make of the word is as a musical term.
- Fri Sep 30, 2022 7:25 pm
- Forum: Spelling
- Topic: Catawba or Catalpa?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 13718
Re: Catawba or Catalpa?
In England I have heard the catalpa called an Indian bean tree. Call it what you like but don't set one out in your yard. There was one in my back yard when I moved here 60 years ago. It was the first to go.
- Wed Sep 28, 2022 4:03 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Alimentary
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1832
Re: Alimentary
When I saw this good word, I immediately thought about Holmes and Watson. Then I saw that the Good Doctor had beat me to it.
- Sun Sep 25, 2022 12:47 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Blurb
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1785
Re: Blurb
With the discussion of blurb, we are digging into the bottom of the lexical barrel. Us folks here in the hinterlands don't cotton to such words.
- Sat Sep 24, 2022 5:42 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Fell
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3838
Re: Fell
Slava, I salute your mother's "One swell foop".
- Fri Sep 23, 2022 9:43 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Fell
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3838
Re: Fell
There is the phrase "one fell swoop" which means a sudden action. It is attributed to the Bard. I have used it time out of mind. My father-in-law said, "One foul swoop", and I referred him to Shakespeare. He was a devotee of the Bard having some slight experience on the stage him...
- Fri Sep 23, 2022 9:28 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Addle
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2234
Re: Addle
Recombobulate may not be in any curated dictionary, but it is in: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/recombob ... se,oneself)%20back%20into%20working%20order.
- Fri Sep 23, 2022 3:15 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Addle
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2234
Re: Addle
This word [first definition] accurately defines my brain as I move further into senior citizenship. However, I prefer to be called discombobulated as it is such a neat sounding word.
- Sun Sep 18, 2022 11:32 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Hornswoggle
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3618
- Thu Sep 15, 2022 7:10 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Namaste
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4846
Re: Namaste
Here in the hinterlands, we say, "how-DEEH?" or "How y'all are?" or "Come in n take a load off n set a spell?
- Sun Sep 11, 2022 11:27 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Ramshackle
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7493
Re: Ramshackle
There is "jury rigged" which is different than a rigged jury. Then there is a certain American unnamed politician [so called] who thinks elections are rigged if he doesn't win.
- Sun Sep 11, 2022 11:09 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Hornswoggle
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3618
Re: Hornswoggle
Please, David, I invented the hinterlands and know their extent.
- Sun Sep 11, 2022 6:15 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Ramshackle
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7493
Re: Ramshackle
The word was created in Appalachia. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHIJfbYhQFg
- Sun Sep 11, 2022 2:18 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Ramshackle
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7493
Re: Ramshackle
It is a noun used in Appalachia to mean very poorly constructed.