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- Mon Nov 12, 2018 9:12 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Temperate
- Replies: 5
- Views: 21999
Re: Temperate
Aristotle's "Golden Mean" always implied to me there must be an excess here and there above and below the line, not a boring flatline of death...
- Mon Nov 12, 2018 9:05 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Paean
- Replies: 6
- Views: 20115
Re: Paean
No paean toa peon?
"The plowman homeward plods his weary way..."
"The plowman homeward plods his weary way..."
- Mon Nov 12, 2018 8:58 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Rectitude
- Replies: 5
- Views: 22879
Re: Rectitude
PS I believe the Aussies pronounce it strite?
- Mon Nov 12, 2018 8:57 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Rectitude
- Replies: 5
- Views: 22879
Re: Rectitude
I note that three of the definitions are -ght- words: righteous, straight, upright, to which can be added right. These have always troubled me, but I suppose they derive from reg through German -ct- and back with no extra charge for the H.
- Mon Nov 12, 2018 8:49 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Armistice
- Replies: 3
- Views: 15006
Re: Armistice
It reads better and more impressively omitting the indefinite article. "I sing of arms and man. "
- Mon Nov 12, 2018 8:41 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Colonel
- Replies: 10
- Views: 27592
Re: Colonel
I second that motion. I do have the impression that somewhere in the British Empire at sometime the word Was pronounced with three syllables including the L. I may be wrong.
- Mon Nov 12, 2018 8:23 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Words from WW2
- Replies: 1
- Views: 31671
Words from WW2
Anyone see this?
https://mentalfloss.com/article/58233/2 ... um=website
I know most of these, but some I have never heard. Be interested to see the response from various countries.
https://mentalfloss.com/article/58233/2 ... um=website
I know most of these, but some I have never heard. Be interested to see the response from various countries.
- Thu Oct 25, 2018 10:11 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Take
- Replies: 4
- Views: 18415
Re: Take
Thumbing through my list of foreign languages here...
- Thu Oct 25, 2018 10:09 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Coitus
- Replies: 1
- Views: 13129
Re: Coitus
You might call it a con job, but there are quite a few con- and co- words used for sexual congress: conjugal, copulate, and from another direction entirely, the ever ambiguous intercourse and intimacy.
- Thu Oct 25, 2018 9:33 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Dunandunate
- Replies: 2
- Views: 19322
Re: Dunandunate
Or merely a treehugger?
- Thu Oct 25, 2018 9:32 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Dunandunate
- Replies: 2
- Views: 19322
Re: Dunandunate
Logophile? One who stacks wood for the fireplace?
- Tue Oct 23, 2018 11:59 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Slough
- Replies: 8
- Views: 29475
Re: Slough
In South Louisiana there is a village named Ville Platte. One might expect it, especially being in the heart of Cajun country, to bepronounced romantically as Veal Plah. Nah. It's vill plat, rhyming with hill flat. Gross!
- Sun Oct 21, 2018 7:02 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Brilliantine
- Replies: 3
- Views: 15486
Re: Brilliantine
There is, or used to be, A commercial cleaning pad, steel wool with embedded soap, called Brillo. I would guess the intent was to scrub pots and pans until they shone brilliantly?
- Sun Oct 21, 2018 6:51 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Kindle
- Replies: 2
- Views: 13870
Re: Kindle
I respectfully disagree with the good doctor hear about the frequency of using the word kindling. Surely there are in the fireplaces across America that use kindling daily to start fires. True, many have gas or electric fire starters, but not directly on logs. Around here, many hunters and families ...
- Sun Oct 21, 2018 6:25 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Slough
- Replies: 8
- Views: 29475
Re: Slough
The first thing that came to my mind when I saw the word was an essay that was in in English lit book my freshman year in college. It was an example of a student essay to show us what with the approval of faculty. I think it was entitled AHole in the Ground. Regarding pronunciation, around here we w...