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- Tue Dec 12, 2006 12:22 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: monkiker
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8594
monkiker
moniker (n) A nickname or assumed name. The etymology of this word is curious. Supposedly from Shelta , a kind of patois once found among Irish and English itinerants, which was based on the reversal of consonants in Gaelic words. And the first Agoran who makes a "gimme shelta" comment wil...
- Mon Dec 11, 2006 11:45 pm
- Forum: Grammar
- Topic: Text Messaging
- Replies: 10
- Views: 31799
As a somewhat high-tech kind of fellow Luddite, I can feel your pain, Bailey. I refuse to get an Ipod, an Xbox or a Wii, for example. Just the name Wii simply urinates me off. So to speak. As for truncated IMs, my problem is that my thumbs are each about an inch wide, while the buttons on my superso...
- Mon Dec 11, 2006 11:31 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Tagline Graveyard
- Replies: 155
- Views: 1244525
- Mon Dec 11, 2006 11:28 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Christmas Newsletters
- Replies: 8
- Views: 16405
- Mon Dec 11, 2006 10:19 pm
- Forum: Grammar
- Topic: Text Messaging
- Replies: 10
- Views: 31799
- Mon Dec 11, 2006 10:14 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: prognosticate
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6733
- Fri Dec 08, 2006 1:12 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: augury
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8607
- Tue Dec 05, 2006 6:48 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Pun Times
- Replies: 287
- Views: 945248
- Tue Dec 05, 2006 5:15 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Pun Times
- Replies: 287
- Views: 945248
- Tue Dec 05, 2006 12:32 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Pun Times
- Replies: 287
- Views: 945248
- Mon Dec 04, 2006 10:16 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Pun Times
- Replies: 287
- Views: 945248
- Sun Dec 03, 2006 4:16 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Jitney
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7078
- Sun Dec 03, 2006 3:59 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Kismet
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6442
Not Yiddish, surely. Turkish (from Persian and Arabic).A yiddish word I do believe - must have originated in New York slang?
Not that I mean to be a kibitzer.
-- PW
- Sun Dec 03, 2006 3:50 pm
- Forum: Slang
- Topic: British slang
- Replies: 47
- Views: 187575
I watch British movies and read books by Brits so the slang is not so new to me, but I'm always amazed at the differences as well as the similarities in our speech. I'm reading a murder mystery set in the 'estates' of London, every single simple sentance must end in innit [which I took to be isn't ...
- Sat Dec 02, 2006 4:37 am
- Forum: Slang
- Topic: British slang
- Replies: 47
- Views: 187575