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- Mon Apr 01, 2024 5:08 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: In case you’re not familiar with this . . . .
- Replies: 1
- Views: 35
Re: In case you’re not familiar with this . . . .
Here's a companion piece on the History of X, at the Smithsonian magazine.
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 7:34 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Bulge
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4356
Re: Bulge
Though the bourgeois do tend to be possessed of generous bellies and budgets, it appears their word is not related. See here and here . I was surprised, as I was led to thinking they might be by the dismissive term for a bourgeois; bougie. Come to find out bougie is not only that, but also a candle ...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 6:11 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Beck
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2532
Re: Beck
Post cards have always cheaper than envelopes, but one-centers may still be old enough to be worth something. You should look them up. Or, just add the difference to make today's cost and you can use them.
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 8:01 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Easter
- Replies: 1
- Views: 39
Re: Easter
Of course, using a different calendar as they do, the Orthodox Easter won't be until May 5 this year. 35 days apart! I gather it's the most they can be.
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 7:59 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Pesach
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2761
Re: Pesach
It may be Easter here in the US of A tomorrow, but it's not Pesach. That's a different lunar calendar, and won't be coming around until April 22-30 this year.
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 10:16 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Malaise
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2724
Re: Malaise
• malaise • Iacere came from the PIE word ye - "to throw", found outside Latin only in Hittite ijami "I make". (Potters "throw" pots on a spinning wheel in making them.) I'm wondering if this is still true. There is a new word out there making the rounds, especially in...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 3:06 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Exodic
- Replies: 1
- Views: 46
Re: Exodic
Every other source I found on the internot gives the second meaning, and in the same words in the same order. Everyone copying everyone else? However, a contemporary non-medical use might be thus: I'm glad I already live in the path of totality for the eclipse. The exodic routes from my city will li...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:51 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Tetchy
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3005
Re: Tetchy
Here's an idea for a niche dictionary: words that don't have clear origins. Words that seem to pop up out of nothing and nowhere, but hang in there and become part of the language.
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:36 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Bête noire
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2423
Re: Bête noire
A rarity, a two-word Good Word. I wonder if, in time, English will squish them together and make one word out of them.
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:14 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Incipient
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2711
Re: Incipient
If we do change the 'c' to an 's', and the middle 'i' to an 'a', we can create 'insapient'. It's the 'non' meaning of in-, not the 'in', but I like it. We may be scientifically called homo sapiens , but so often we act insapiently. ( Sapient on the Agora.) It may even actually have been a word once ...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:02 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Furbish
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2622
Re: Furbish
I'm going to have to keep the re-. I keep trying to make this word mean furnish.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:27 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Relevant
- Replies: 3
- Views: 121
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 6:59 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Dapper
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2733
Re: Dapper
I can see why the roots of this word could mean 'fat' or 'thick'. It is only in the last few generations that being slim and trim were considered signs of health and wealth. So, not that long ago, to be dapper would have required being well-fed and smooth.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 6:50 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Encomium
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2545
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 6:46 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Panegyric
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2952