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- Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:20 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: GOSSIP
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8489
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: 2385
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: 4975
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: 6484
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: 5313
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: 6603
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: 5204
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: 3423
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: 2548
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.
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 3:28 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Coterie
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2967
Re: Coterie
Basically, yes. Now I'm also thinking that coterie may be in the middle, but it can go either way, depending on how it's deployed by the user and taken by the usee.
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 11:23 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Coterie
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2967
Re: Coterie
If a cabal is usually up to no good, and a clique is as much for the exclusion of others as for the inclusion of like minds, where does a coterie fall? Any thoughts?
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 10:57 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: peroration
- Replies: 2
- Views: 104
Re: peroration
Dr, Goodword has treated this word, here. Perhaps someone would like to be the first to post a reply to it?
Welcome to the Agora, by the way!
Welcome to the Agora, by the way!