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- Wed Sep 13, 2006 11:42 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Oriented
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9456
- Wed Sep 13, 2006 1:49 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Cru
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9120
Cru
One more wine word. It's come up once before on this forum, but in a different context. Cru ( wikipedia ) (in France) a vineyard producing wine of high quality, sometimes classified by the government as either a Great Growth (Grand Cru) or a First Growth (Premier Cru). I've been dreaming up many cre...
- Wed Sep 13, 2006 1:43 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Hirsute
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4644
Hirsute
I didn't even know this word existed until I noticed it in a book about logic/pragmatics/communication: On the other reading, (16) is false, since it attributes being not bald to the king of France, and there is no king of France around to be hirsute. Hirsute ( etym , dict ) 1621, from L. hirsutus &...
- Wed Sep 13, 2006 1:34 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Oriented
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9456
Oriented
This word is interesting for the progression in derived words. At first, there was " orient ": from L. orientem (nom. oriens) "the rising sun, the east, part of the sky where the sun rises," originally "rising" (adj.) Which eventually became a verb: from Fr. s'orienter ...
- Wed Sep 13, 2006 1:25 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Barbarian
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4400
Barbarian
Discussing Greek philosophy, my professor pointed out the etymology of this word: "It's from aliens speaking nonesense, 'bar bar bar!'" Barbarian ( etym , dict ) from Gk. barbaros "foreign, strange, ignorant," from PIE base *barbar- echoic of unintelligible speech of foreigners (...
- Wed Sep 13, 2006 1:21 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Merlot
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4474
Merlot
I wish I could keep track of these forums more regularly... for now I've just been accumulating words to reccomend. Mostly for their interesting etymologies. Merlot a dark-blue grape used in winemaking, esp. in the Bordeaux region of France and in areas of Italy, Switzerland, and California. [Origin...
- Fri Feb 24, 2006 7:57 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Glottocide? Glossocide?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 42571
- Fri Feb 24, 2006 2:15 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Glottocide? Glossocide?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 42571
- Thu Feb 23, 2006 1:34 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Glottocide? Glossocide?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 42571
- Thu Feb 23, 2006 1:10 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Glottocide? Glossocide?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 42571
- Thu Feb 23, 2006 11:50 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Glottocide? Glossocide?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 42571
- Wed Feb 15, 2006 4:35 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: pariah
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4823
pariah
I'm guessing everyone knows this word -- normally used in the nearly idomatic phrase "social pariah", but I just found out it has a great etymology: The word pariah, which can be used for anyone who is a social outcast, independent of social position, recalls a much more rigid social syste...
- Mon Feb 06, 2006 9:55 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: falutin'
- Replies: 9
- Views: 15277
- Sat Feb 04, 2006 10:33 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: falutin'
- Replies: 9
- Views: 15277
- Sat Feb 04, 2006 10:11 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: falutin'
- Replies: 9
- Views: 15277