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- Tue Mar 15, 2011 12:41 pm
- Forum: Etymology
- Topic: Origin of the word "Wow"
- Replies: 11
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- Tue Mar 15, 2011 12:35 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: ENTHEOGEN
- Replies: 5
- Views: 24307
This fascinating word must forever be associated with Carlos Castaneda, a UCLA anthropologist, writer and seeker of enlightenment. In The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge (1968) he describes his tutelage under a brujo (sorcerer) who used the hallucinogenic peyote bean (etheogen) as a...
- Tue Mar 15, 2011 12:32 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: SOMNILOQUY
- Replies: 27
- Views: 77765
- Tue Mar 15, 2011 12:29 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: INTERPOLATE
- Replies: 2
- Views: 18214
- Tue Mar 15, 2011 12:27 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: WILLY-NILLY
- Replies: 6
- Views: 28368
Re: irresolute
One thing I love about this word is how the back and forth sound reinforces the meaning, in particular the second sense of the word, to vacillate. "Willy-nilly" vacillates in indecision like a wiper blade. You could be giving rise to a third definition, vacillate, stemming from the "...
- Thu Feb 24, 2011 1:28 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Dash and Dashboard
- Replies: 3
- Views: 21673
- Thu Feb 24, 2011 1:24 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: ambit
- Replies: 3
- Views: 21586
- Thu Feb 24, 2011 1:22 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Radionics
- Replies: 4
- Views: 23103
- Thu Feb 24, 2011 1:17 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: AIT
- Replies: 5
- Views: 24291
- Sun Dec 05, 2010 9:36 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: WHELM
- Replies: 2
- Views: 18245
- Sun Dec 05, 2010 9:34 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: niveaulimbo
- Replies: 4
- Views: 22109
- Thu Nov 25, 2010 2:23 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: nescience
- Replies: 1
- Views: 16826
- Thu Nov 25, 2010 2:22 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Populist
- Replies: 1
- Views: 17436
- Tue Nov 16, 2010 9:02 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Mystique
- Replies: 4
- Views: 24286
- Tue Nov 16, 2010 9:00 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: THINGAMABOB
- Replies: 1
- Views: 16665