."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!

I wonder if parlance is in a parlous position these days. I don't have any research to back it up, but it does seem to be quite rare. I can't recall even seeing it in a crossword puzzle.