Anyone care to come up with a theory on how a root for bath/bath-house also went along to become pain, anguish, and torture? Ouch!

."The clamor for gun safety laws is rising fast in America."

Sadly, in space no one hears you scream.

Witness battue.

That's what I get for assuming I did it right. Fixed now.

I've forgotten my high-school French sufficiently to have to ask, is the 'd'oeuvre' of the 'chef' and 'hors' phrases pronounced differently or the same in their home country?

Dozenal sounds like a sleep-aid drug name, no?

For treatment and comments on lagniappe, one of my favorite words, see here.

I found a discussion of this on a site called wordorigins.org, where someone quotes the OED.

There's also etymonline's blurb on good as a noun.

Hope this is what you were looking for.

High-falutin' definition of food fight: becoming refractory with refections in the refectory.

So high-falutin', refections isn't in my spellchecker. Hmph!

War is not a word to play with...

Well, there goes one card game!

Disrelish! I like it. I imagine the noun can be negated, too: If I were starving and all there was to eat was relish, I could force myself to eat it, but it would be with disrelish.

Fun crossword puzzle clue: give up a condiment = relinquish relish.

By the by, could you tell me how you produced the image?

Copied from their site, pasted into a Word document, enlarged, converted to a jpeg file, saved to desktop, uploaded to the Agora. Whew!

Do the French capitalize nouns but not adjectives, perhaps?

Here's the logo:

Franco-Spanish circus talk: Allez, allez, into the cage, ole!"

New definition: infantry - the cannon fodder of war that does not have the right to speak.

Lighter note: do infants have as much fun in infancy as adults do in adultery?

If the undesired news is true, would that be derogation/derogatory? Or perhaps denigrate/denigration? Those aren't of necessity lies.

Another Good Word for defamation is calumny.

To make this word mean what it does, I guess they had to milk it for all it's worth!