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- Sun Apr 22, 2018 1:45 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Clickbait
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7433
Re: Clickbait
I wonder about opening a new menu heading for computer terms. Not only would it be useful, especially over time as doc and maybe others treat them. It might also attract more folk to the site who google computer terminology.
- Sun Apr 22, 2018 1:32 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Effete
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6259
Re: Effete
For whatever reason, the word always conjures up a sentence from my sixth grade Texas history class. "People from Fort Worth (where the West begins) consider those from Dallas as strangers from the effete East."
- Sun Apr 22, 2018 1:26 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Fuddle
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3879
Re: Fuddle
Shucks, without being either fuddled or befuddled I've been known to pour water into juice glasses and even jars - never into eyeglasses, though, except a smidgen (good word?) to clean them.
- Tue Apr 17, 2018 12:06 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Pudding
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9760
Re: Pudding
Philip, thanks for the food prep lesson. I just go pull the stuff down off the grocery shelf…
- Wed Apr 04, 2018 3:51 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Attorn
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7402
Re: Attorn
Thanks, Doc. It was indeed an unexpected turn. Even explains "attorney at law" as opposed to tenant or on a lathe.
- Sat Mar 31, 2018 5:46 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Attorney
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4410
Attorney
Workinga crossword, I came across the phrase "attorney at law." What other kind of attorney is there? And why not delve into the etymology of attorneys, lawyerx, and any distinctions between them?
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- Wed Mar 28, 2018 7:02 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Monster
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6240
Re: Monster
I wonder whether the medical usage was influenced by "the Frankenstein monster." Its original understanding might have referred to its "birth"/creation and morphed into a horrible, scary villain. Incidentally, "abortion" in medical use refers still to miscarriages as we...
- Wed Mar 28, 2018 6:58 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Pheromone
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5948
Re: Pheromone
Thanks. I believe I see this word used more and more. The article did correct my reading of the word as "pherome," but that's so ingrained I still wonder if pherome is sometimes used as well as pheronome?
- Sun Mar 25, 2018 8:08 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Scandal
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3908
Re: Scandal
Apparently adultery has again become scandalous, at least at the presidential level. HOw much so - that is the question.
- Sun Mar 25, 2018 8:03 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Shia
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3836
Re: Shia
I began by wondering why these two groups were so hostile to each other, until I remembered The wars of Protestants and Catholics, Calvinists and Arminians. The First Amendment was apparently a huge step forward in making religion an individual choice instead of a state's decision.
- Thu Mar 22, 2018 5:22 am
- Forum: WELCOME HOME!
- Topic: Entertaining article for linguists
- Replies: 2
- Views: 33951
Re: Entertaining article for linguists
Thanks, David, for the article. Most of the last half are just as likely to show up here in the South.
- Tue Mar 06, 2018 1:55 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Dossier
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5155
Re: Dossier
I wanted to bring this word to the top, since it is so much in vogue today.
- Sun Feb 25, 2018 12:05 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Agog
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6492
Re: Agog
Gog and Magog?
- Mon Feb 19, 2018 8:33 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Agog
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6492
Re: Agog
Not sure why, but I always think of someone's mouth wide open in astonishment when I read this word. Perhaps it's because your mouth comes close to that position when you say the word. We now have an agog emoji! :-0
Re: Theory
PS, almost forgot. "Theory" often becomes an oxymoron in today's debates between science and religion. They more conservative religious people use theory as equivalent to an idea that is speculative, what a scientist is more likely to term a hypothesis to be proven or disproven. A theory i...