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- Thu Apr 18, 2024 6:01 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: victim
- Replies: 1
- Views: 120
Re: victim
Taken up and treated here.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 5:39 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Spanner
- Replies: 3
- Views: 70
Re: Spanner
I gather that for the same reason, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" is "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" in the US.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:54 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Demarche
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6686
Re: Demarche
I seem to feel that this is often used in the sense of making the first move in order to gain an advantage over a perceived or actual foe. As in the Taiwan example.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:20 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: GOSSIP
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8566
Re: GOSSIP
Question for our British readers; do you use gossip in meaning 3?
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 6:37 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Cenacle
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2508
Re: Cenacle
Cenation is another one, and Cenatical was out there, too (lower right corner):.
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 6:25 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Earth
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2390
Re: Earth
Earth Day and Week are coming up;
Take a Clod to Lunch!
Take a Clod to Lunch!
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:39 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Pharisee
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5045
Re: Pharisee
Judging from my short excursion into the internot, it would appear that, in the interests of politesse, or political correctness if you will, using the small-p meanings of this word should be avoided. Any thoughts?
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:01 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Grenade
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6549
Re: Grenade
Given definition 2, I guess a Molotov cocktail would count as a grenade, too.
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:12 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Cenacle
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2508
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:35 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Minstrel
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5403
Re: Minstrel
This morning this word reminded me of the wonderful Gordon Lightfoot song, "The Minstrel of the Dawn." I hadn't heard it in quite some time, but it still sounds great.
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 1:19 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Adoxography
- Replies: 5
- Views: 190
Re: Adoxography
Lambent link.
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:39 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Impromptu
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6661
Re: Impromptu
I can see why impromptitude never caught on; it really should mean lateness, not spur-of-the-momentness.
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 6:59 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Cantle
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5271
Re: Cantle
A difficult one to remember, for me at least. There's cant argot, the gait canter, an intoning chanter, etc. vying for memory space. Being rare doesn't help much, either. I would like to be able to remember the back end of a saddle, though. Just to go along with pommel. A word we haven't seen here, ...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 3:04 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Efflorescence
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3424
Re: Efflorescence
Well, it's the middle of April and we've got showers in my neck of the woods. May they bring an efflorescence of May flowers!
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 3:40 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Precarity
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2549
Re: Precarity
Though teeth can theoretically be in a pre-carious state (no caries, as yet), which would make long term health prospects precarious, those "cariouses" aren't related. Unless there's some Proto PIE hiding out there.
This one's from PIE prek-/prok-, while t'other's from kere-. Wild.
This one's from PIE prek-/prok-, while t'other's from kere-. Wild.