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- Tue Jul 09, 2019 9:03 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Today's Good word: sylvan
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3882
Today's Good word: sylvan
I am surprised you did not mention "Pennsylvania", "Penn's Woods"., in the Good word explanation, history, etc , today
- Sun Sep 20, 2015 7:12 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Graffiti
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3935
Graffiti
Lately this word has been popping up for me. First, I used it while out with my 7 yr old grandson, pointing some graffiti out on a bridge. He had never heard the word before. Then later that week I heard it came from an Italian word meaning "scratch or to scratch". And in today's Good Word...
- Sat Oct 11, 2014 10:02 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: muscle
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4982
muscle
I am surprised I did not know the root of this word before! "Mouse" and I learned of it in a magazine I get for my 10 yr old granddaughter! "muscle (n.) late 14c., from Middle French muscle "muscle, sinew" (14c.) and directly from Latin musculus "a muscle," literal...
- Sun Jun 01, 2014 6:56 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Susurrous
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6351
Re: Susurrous
I had not heard of this word in English before but guessed the meaning because I know the Spanish "susurrar"....that happens to me a lot!
- Sat Mar 08, 2014 8:49 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Sinister
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9732
Re: Sinister
I remember this from the Spanish "siniestra" and the opposite "diestra" (which in English appears in "dexterity") Then I recall the Monty Python movie with the Roman soldiers marching to "dexter, sinster, dexter ,sinster" LOL In Spanish literature ("ElCid...
- Sun Feb 23, 2014 8:14 am
- Forum: Site News
- Topic: Review of alphaDictionary website completed
- Replies: 1
- Views: 15568
Re: Review of alphaDictionary website completed
excellent!! I just told someone about this site yesterday..
- Mon Nov 04, 2013 4:40 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Nidifugous
- Replies: 12
- Views: 16052
Re: Nidifugous
LOL..that would be about right..we were just discussing how young people stay at home longer than we would have wanted to..it is a different time!
- Mon Nov 04, 2013 10:22 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Nidifugous
- Replies: 12
- Views: 16052
Re: Nidifugous
that would be a good use of it also
except ..when is "leaving the nest early" these days! ?
except ..when is "leaving the nest early" these days! ?
- Mon Nov 04, 2013 9:39 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Nidifugous
- Replies: 12
- Views: 16052
Re: Nidifugous
yes, it seems a good use of the word...runaway children..are nidifugous! LOL
- Wed Oct 23, 2013 12:44 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Nidifugous
- Replies: 12
- Views: 16052
Re: Nidifugous
thanks,Perry..I have not been back until now to see your replies!!
love the joke,Philip
love the joke,Philip
- Sun Sep 08, 2013 9:55 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Nidifugous
- Replies: 12
- Views: 16052
Nidifugous
I am reading a book ("The Tender Bar") in which the main character loves big words...when he mentioned "Nidifugous"..I thought "Really? that is a word?" LOL But when I saw the definition, it made sense:a bird who leaves the nest early I knew "nido" is "ne...
- Fri Sep 06, 2013 7:13 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Occidental
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7809
Occidental
today's Good word, wester, reminded me of this :Occident/ Occidental. We are very familiar with their opposites: Orient/Oriental It became evident to me when I was teaching Spanish that the students did not realize "Occidente" was a cognate like "Oriente" I rarely see or hear &qu...
- Sat Feb 11, 2012 11:06 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: PICARESQUE
- Replies: 9
- Views: 11156
- Sat Feb 11, 2012 11:04 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: HABERDASHER
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7569
haber
that is a really good possibility!
- Sat Feb 04, 2012 11:22 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: quixotic
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5447
quixotic
today's Good word, "picaresque" put me in mind of another that originated in Spanish literature, "quixotic"..from good ol' Don Quixote...(Quixote/Quijote...due to the old confusion of x and j..like in "Mexico/Mejico")
"noble but impractical"
"noble but impractical"