Search found 1476 matches
- Tue Jun 21, 2011 10:01 am
- Forum: Grammar
- Topic: Never = certainly not
- Replies: 6
- Views: 33325
- Tue Jun 21, 2011 9:54 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: STAVE
- Replies: 7
- Views: 25578
- Mon Jun 20, 2011 12:32 pm
- Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
- Topic: Pronunciation of "Missouri"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 51050
- Mon Jun 20, 2011 11:28 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: OVERWEEN
- Replies: 1
- Views: 15204
Re: OVERWEEN
(It would be overweening of us to take all the credit for today's Good Word, so we will rightfully share credit with John Evans, who first suggested it.)
Really?
I have so many names I can't keep up
- Mon Jun 20, 2011 11:17 am
- Forum: Slang
- Topic: Why did LOL infiltrate the language?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 42435
- Mon Jun 20, 2011 11:00 am
- Forum: Grammar
- Topic: The "Nonplussed" Problem
- Replies: 3
- Views: 25924
- Mon Jun 20, 2011 10:45 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: ETIOLATE
- Replies: 2
- Views: 17467
Re: ETIOLATE
Yes, the first thing I think of when making food is, "oh wait, I can't make those together-- the colors will clash" (/snark)Etiolated asparagus works well on plates where green clashes with the colors of the other servings.
Nice word though.
- Wed Mar 03, 2010 2:09 am
- Forum: Grammar
- Topic: would have/had
- Replies: 22
- Views: 99869
I left home early.... What about this one? I left home early to make sure I would have extra time in case I were to get lost. The uncertainty of getting lost seems to call for the subjunctive. Sounds stuffier, but the meaning is certainly clear. I agree that this is the clearest version yet. The mo...
- Tue Mar 02, 2010 7:18 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: bruxism
- Replies: 4
- Views: 21992
How very incisive! I like it- a word with some dentsity, by gum.
Of course, we've already chewed on this one before...
Of course, we've already chewed on this one before...
- Tue Mar 02, 2010 7:01 pm
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: Agora Font Poll
- Replies: 19
- Views: 115030
Referring back to the double-space after full stop request , if the font currently used can be changed to something that doesn't squeeze sentences together so much, that would be a big help. I don't remember seeing this poll before, but having been referred here I just tried to vote for a serif chan...
- Tue Mar 02, 2010 6:50 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Sad Names
- Replies: 42
- Views: 113424
This is always loads of pun :D I made up a couple of names for radio colleagues- Myra Flection was one, although the last name is a stretch. And this was the basis of my stage name Jerry Grette in the Basin Street Sheiks . But a colleague made up her own radio name that I've always envied: Jenny Say...
- Tue Mar 02, 2010 6:44 pm
- Forum: Grammar
- Topic: would have/had
- Replies: 22
- Views: 99869
- Tue Mar 02, 2010 6:37 pm
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: Sentences sentenced to head-on collisions
- Replies: 28
- Views: 175680
- Tue Mar 02, 2010 5:54 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: SNOG
- Replies: 12
- Views: 44273
- Tue Mar 02, 2010 5:44 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: DIDDLY-SQUAT
- Replies: 3
- Views: 18390