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by azhreia
Wed May 03, 2006 3:34 am
Forum: Good Word Suggestions
Topic: Daedal
Replies: 5
Views: 10798

yes, Perry, and now I'm going fishing to Carpe carp!

mark
I think I prefer "Carpe Jugulum" ... aka "seize the throat"

or, as I used to say "Carpe Cuniculum". :-)

Azh
by azhreia
Sun Apr 23, 2006 10:24 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: CLOD
Replies: 7
Views: 14441

Re: CLOD

Someone accustomed to walking over freshly ploughed fields is a clod-hopper Clod-hopper is used to mean "foot", clod-hoppers = "feet" in Australian slang, frequently denoting feet of a particularly large size. Thus, "move yer clod-hoppers!" is a request to move one's f...
by azhreia
Sun Apr 16, 2006 12:24 am
Forum: Grammar
Topic: Ending Sentences with Prepositions
Replies: 34
Views: 88907

I remember waiting anxiously to hear what friends and acquaintances thought of the first book I had written when it was published. Imagine my dismay when the very first (written) response I got from _anyone_ expressed disappointment that I'd ended a sentence with a preposition. To me, the convolutio...
by azhreia
Sun Apr 09, 2006 8:13 pm
Forum: Good Word Suggestions
Topic: computers
Replies: 6
Views: 9473

This is what I call being succinct.

Brazilian dude
Egregiously so, perhaps.


Azh
by azhreia
Mon Apr 03, 2006 3:48 am
Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
Topic: Rubber bands
Replies: 29
Views: 86345

Rubber Bands

When I was a kid we called them elastic bands, or 'lacka bands.


There was a game we used to play with a large piece of elastic formed into a ring that involved jumping in and out and I was never very good at it. It was known as "elastics", and it was eventually banned at my school.

Azh
by azhreia
Sun Apr 02, 2006 4:51 pm
Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
Topic: Grandparents
Replies: 75
Views: 299539

We are fortunate in my family to currently have five generations. That's my grandparents (Nan and Uncle John, maternal grandmother and maternal stepgrandfather), my mother (Granky), me (Mum/Grandma), my children, and my so-far only grandchild. When my oldest daughter was very very small she was a pr...
by azhreia
Tue Feb 28, 2006 7:51 am
Forum: Idioms
Topic: Nothing
Replies: 11
Views: 50890

"good of" I've always thought to have a link with the lazy speech habit of "would of". Not that the correct version would be "good have", as it is with "would have", but rather that it sounds euphonious if one's ear is attuned to "would of" as a corr...
by azhreia
Thu Jan 19, 2006 8:20 am
Forum: Grammar
Topic: While or whilst?
Replies: 10
Views: 26896

of BD no one has used it since 1412, except for vapid artsy types.

Kt
whilst I would agree with you normally, Katy, it's a word I hear not infrequently, and use with some regularity myself.

;-)

Azh
by azhreia
Sun Jan 08, 2006 2:54 am
Forum: Idioms
Topic: TH substitution: S or T?
Replies: 41
Views: 140948

I wonder whether (and I have absolutely no data to support this either way) the substitutions occur to make the unfamiliar sounds more familiar to non-native speakers? That is, the combination of letters that occurs by the substitution of either "t" or "s" for "th" beco...

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