Probably used in certain academic situations where one tends to repeat a specialized vocabulary.

And Saturday night comedies on PBS, and above all Wodehouse...what would Jeeves say?

That thonic boom you heard today was the stock market falling chthonically into the basement!

My first writing assignments called for a dozen or more pp each with six carbons. I kept the last, which was useless. When word processors came, you could just mail the floppy disc and later email the whole thing. The computer made revising much easier since you didn't hae to retype a bunch of pages...

I definitely hear thusly used as a synonym for thus in a serious manner. Can't offhand recall a specific, but I believe it mosly comes during an explanation. Perhaps it does have an advbial sense following the naming of a sequence of events, thusly showing how to accomplish something.

After posting this, I found Up and Down discussed facetiously in the forum on the Rebel/Yankee test, thus increasing the confusion. (They're Everywhere!

I just got back from working out. I sweated a lot more today than usual, not because it's nearly 100 outside, but because it seemed around 80 inside. They either turned the A/C UP or DOWN, not sure which. Probably they turned the thermostat UP, but if you say they turned the A/C DOWN, my first thoug...

Then there is the frequent con along with conman, its companion. BTW, is the bird, gull, otherwise derived? I always thought the verb came from the bird's scavenging.

After several weeks! I finally went to the link and found my post came from a misunderstanding of Slava's question. After reading, it occurs to me that equally wide variations occur from all dialects. The article refers to "guys" as applying to both sexes, for example. But until I spent a ...

That's no fun.

British soccer riots fascinate me. The image of Brits has always been reserved. On the other hand, I sometimes catch parliament quizzing (or attacking) the PM on PBS, and I'm astounded at their rudeness. As stultifying as Congress can be, I've never seen tehem shouting at each other as a body. When ...

I can imagine myself saying it to a guy, but it's not the first term that would come to mind. If I did it would not imply femininity.

Also curious that the PA based doc knows RC and Moon Pie, however down here one is as likely to here ROC. Have no clue as to why.

In Biblical studies scholars distinguish between apodictic and casuistic. Apodictic are curt: no murder, no stealing. Casuistic law is case law. There is a difference between raping a single woman and a slave, for example, and the penalties vary.

Reading The King's Speech, I found the word tuition used in the early 20th century to mean the act of teaching, related to tutor. Dictionary says it goes back to 16th century. Apparently its use to mean the fee for instruction is relatively late, but that's the only use I remember.