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.

Just to put in my two cents here, but in Meaning 2, the involuntary response is not necessarily 'unlearned'. Think of the beaten dog that cowers at a raised voice. It took some teaching to get there.

Our gratitude may not be ineffable, but in general, especially with a qualifier, it could be: "the extent of our gratitude is ineffable". Interesting that the ineffability can be for both good and bad things. The ineffable name of God, and the ineffable name of "He Who Shall Not Be Na...