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- Fri Apr 26, 2024 5:52 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Obdurate
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3544
Re: Obdurate
For the process of becoming obdurate, see indurate.
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 5:22 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Scrimp
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5710
Re: Scrimp
Seems to me that meaning 1 is only if used with something about saving, and even then it could still be taken as 2, Then again, I guess we could say something like, "He scrimped up enough to buy his texts for this term"? Without the 'up', though, it would feel like meaning 2 to me.
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 12:57 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Stentorian
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5774
Re: Stentorian
Especially given the shared root, I think I'd accept 'stentorian thunder' as a non-voice related usage. Anyone else?
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 6:38 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Superstition
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3485
Re: Superstition
I don't think I can see this word without thinking Stevie Wonder. That was a great song. Here's a youboob version, in case you want a listen.
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 4:14 pm
- Forum: WELCOME HOME!
- Topic: Just a query about punctuation.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 48434
Re: Just a query about punctuation.
Odd choice of phrasing. I'd simply put the food trucks before the bounce house. It eliminates the need for a comma and puts the funner, perhaps more enticing attraction, at the end, giving it more emphasis.
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 3:20 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Concord
- Replies: 6
- Views: 186
Re: Concord
Here's a piece on the internot I found that explains some of the differences. It gets repetitive, and may even be machine generated for all I know, but it does help. Of course, accordance and concordance have different usages, at least as far as making a list of words used by an author or in a work...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 7:26 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Twee
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5739
Re: Twee
Back in the olden days before the name change, I guess one could have twee tweets with a sweetie?
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 5:43 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Exculpatory
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2484
Re: Exculpatory
"Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa" (intoned while beating one's breast).
Anachronistic or facetious now, but a formal way of begging forgiveness once upon a time.
Anachronistic or facetious now, but a formal way of begging forgiveness once upon a time.
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 5:32 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Cartoon
- Replies: 2
- Views: 84
Re: Cartoon
In case the Greek and Semitic words made you think it, too, here's harass, which turns out not to be related. People can be harassed with cartoons, though.
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 7:21 pm
- Forum: Etymology
- Topic: Epsilontist
- Replies: 2
- Views: 82
Re: Epsilontist
I managed to come up with two places that speak of epsilontics, so I guess that's what an epsilontist would engage in. Here they are: https://www.wordsense.eu/epsilontic/ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/epsilontics If anyone cares to share just what those definitions might mean in plain English, I'd ...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 5:30 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Vocabulary
- Replies: 1
- Views: 430
Re: Vocabulary
No idea why I didn't say this when I first thought it, but...; wouldn't this fall nicely under the Grammar section? Words and how to use them, or not use them.
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 5:28 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: World Book Day!
- Replies: 0
- Views: 36
World Book Day!
I knew it was Shakespeare's birthday, along with my brother's, but never knew UNESCO celebrated it, too. World Book and Copyright Day is April 23. Go read!
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 7:09 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Wrench
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2804
Re: Wrench
Should you so desire, you can read up on spanner, too.
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 3:33 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Escarpment
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3132
Re: Escarpment
Another one of those words that look like they should be related but aren't. Scarper is no kin. It's related to escape, which has different roots but similar letters.
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 8:40 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: cartoon
- Replies: 1
- Views: 85205
Re: cartoon
Revisiting this suggestion I was reminded that it can also be a verb. Which gives us cartoonery, too. I see that it comes from the original idea of drawing such sketches on stiff paper, i.e. carton. Then it spread out from there. Speaking of Herblock, he designed a US postage stamp . It's not a cart...