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- Thu Apr 04, 2024 8:11 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Larceny
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2531
Re: Larceny
Fascinating that larceny and idolatry are related. The -latry ending to idol is larcenous.
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 10:45 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Verge
- Replies: 5
- Views: 365
Re: Verge
The verger verged on verging the vicuña to the verge with his verge?
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 11:25 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Verge
- Replies: 5
- Views: 365
Re: Verge
I was wondering about verger, the guy who holds the verge, which according to dictionary.com is "a rod, wand, or staff, especially one carried as an emblem of authority or of the office of a bishop, dean, or the like."
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 6:40 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Seed
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2918
Re: Seed
While I admit to not being much of a sports person, I'm still very happy to know how 'seed' came to be used in sports.
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 5:08 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: In case you’re not familiar with this . . . .
- Replies: 1
- Views: 271
Re: In case you’re not familiar with this . . . .
Here's a companion piece on the History of X, at the Smithsonian magazine.
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 7:34 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Bulge
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5946
Re: Bulge
Though the bourgeois do tend to be possessed of generous bellies and budgets, it appears their word is not related. See here and here . I was surprised, as I was led to thinking they might be by the dismissive term for a bourgeois; bougie. Come to find out bougie is not only that, but also a candle ...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 6:11 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Beck
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3172
Re: Beck
Post cards have always cheaper than envelopes, but one-centers may still be old enough to be worth something. You should look them up. Or, just add the difference to make today's cost and you can use them.
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 8:01 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Easter
- Replies: 1
- Views: 115
Re: Easter
Of course, using a different calendar as they do, the Orthodox Easter won't be until May 5 this year. 35 days apart! I gather it's the most they can be.
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 7:59 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Pesach
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2877
Re: Pesach
It may be Easter here in the US of A tomorrow, but it's not Pesach. That's a different lunar calendar, and won't be coming around until April 22-30 this year.
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 10:16 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Malaise
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3154
Re: Malaise
• malaise • Iacere came from the PIE word ye - "to throw", found outside Latin only in Hittite ijami "I make". (Potters "throw" pots on a spinning wheel in making them.) I'm wondering if this is still true. There is a new word out there making the rounds, especially in...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 3:06 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Exodic
- Replies: 1
- Views: 163
Re: Exodic
Every other source I found on the internot gives the second meaning, and in the same words in the same order. Everyone copying everyone else? However, a contemporary non-medical use might be thus: I'm glad I already live in the path of totality for the eclipse. The exodic routes from my city will li...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:51 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Tetchy
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3195
Re: Tetchy
Here's an idea for a niche dictionary: words that don't have clear origins. Words that seem to pop up out of nothing and nowhere, but hang in there and become part of the language.
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:36 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Bête noire
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2545
Re: Bête noire
A rarity, a two-word Good Word. I wonder if, in time, English will squish them together and make one word out of them.
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:14 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Incipient
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3753
Re: Incipient
If we do change the 'c' to an 's', and the middle 'i' to an 'a', we can create 'insapient'. It's the 'non' meaning of in-, not the 'in', but I like it. We may be scientifically called homo sapiens , but so often we act insapiently. ( Sapient on the Agora.) It may even actually have been a word once ...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:02 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Furbish
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3203
Re: Furbish
I'm going to have to keep the re-. I keep trying to make this word mean furnish.