The pronunciation of slapstick wasn't difficult. How about the pronunciation of synedoche, please!
Always trying to learn.
PS. Thanks Henri, but I'm looking in every other day.
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- Sat Oct 15, 2005 6:53 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: SLAPSTICK
- Replies: 5
- Views: 11085
- Wed Oct 12, 2005 6:34 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: HEURISTIC
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10120
This would be, not so much a reply, but more of a comment and finaly a question. A long time ago, I complained that so many GWofT were so mundane which obviously was taken note of, since most of GWofT recently could be called arcane. Well, to my surprise today's word also excists in my language (but...
- Wed Sep 28, 2005 6:12 am
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: Lexical Gaps
- Replies: 42
- Views: 89919
- Thu Aug 25, 2005 5:19 am
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: Japanese Manga
- Replies: 7
- Views: 16983
Dear frank, You posed these questions almost three weeks ago and haven't got any answers yet, in spite there are several members learned in Japanese at this forum. That's a shame! My knowledge of Japanese is pure practical, I learned in a bar where I worked, so I cannot help you with your questions ...
- Thu Aug 25, 2005 4:41 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Nictate
- Replies: 7
- Views: 14968
- Mon Jul 18, 2005 4:38 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: TROTH
- Replies: 13
- Views: 26849
I think Anders right in thinking what he is thinking AND that Kathy is correct in pointing out the tradition. Remember that marriage is much older than enlightment and that in the very old days few things were done without asking for the help of (the) God(s). At the cultural level of the Vikings a f...
- Wed May 04, 2005 5:37 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: QUARK
- Replies: 11
- Views: 25279
DOE
The In Play part of the Good Word always contains one or two rather charming and fanciful names. This lead my thought to John and Jane Doe for unknown persons in (American?) English. Now, I can understand John as pretty common name and Jane as pretty similar to John, b u t w h y Doe ? In my neck of ...
- Thu Apr 21, 2005 2:33 pm
- Forum: Etymology
- Topic: To Insure Prompt Service = TIPS
- Replies: 23
- Views: 65191
My theory (for what it's worth) is a little different. Compare with other languages as French pour boire (for drink), German Trinkgeld (drink money) and Swedish dricks (dricka -> drink) and you will get tip as the top of the sum or the tip of it so the servant can get tipsy (or maybe it's the the ot...
- Wed Apr 20, 2005 2:50 pm
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: Swedish subjunctive
- Replies: 23
- Views: 48286
- Sat Apr 09, 2005 7:23 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: nagarazoku
- Replies: 24
- Views: 69679
- Fri Apr 08, 2005 3:21 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: THE VATICAN
- Replies: 12
- Views: 26598
Re: THE VATICAN
Moreover, it does so in all languages: Città del Vaticano (Italian), Ciudad del Vaticano (Spanish), and Cité du Vatican , all of which mean "City of the Vatican". Not so in Swedish however, where it's called Vatikanstaten (NB the k ) which means the State of the Vatican and where the stat...
- Thu Apr 07, 2005 4:22 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Metaphor
- Replies: 7
- Views: 17417