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- Tue Apr 23, 2024 5:28 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: World Book Day!
- Replies: 0
- Views: 675
World Book Day!
I knew it was Shakespeare's birthday, along with my brother's, but never knew UNESCO celebrated it, too. World Book and Copyright Day is April 23. Go read!
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 7:09 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Wrench
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3357
Re: Wrench
Should you so desire, you can read up on spanner, too.
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 3:33 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Escarpment
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3714
Re: Escarpment
Another one of those words that look like they should be related but aren't. Scarper is no kin. It's related to escape, which has different roots but similar letters.
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 8:40 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: cartoon
- Replies: 1
- Views: 103943
Re: cartoon
Revisiting this suggestion I was reminded that it can also be a verb. Which gives us cartoonery, too. I see that it comes from the original idea of drawing such sketches on stiff paper, i.e. carton. Then it spread out from there. Speaking of Herblock, he designed a US postage stamp . It's not a cart...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 8:21 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Dastard
- Replies: 1
- Views: 571
Re: Dastard
Dick Dastardly was probably how I first came to know this word:
He ranks right up there with Snidely Whiplash:
He ranks right up there with Snidely Whiplash:
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 12:22 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Affinity
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3565
Re: Affinity
For a word with no history we know of, finis sure has a good-sized family: finish, finite, finitude, finity, infinity, definite, etc.
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 6:29 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Picnic
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3922
Re: Picnic
I recently learned that some people have tried to give the etymology of picnic a racist bent, saying it comes from a game called Pick-a-N*****.
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:55 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Velutinous
- Replies: 1
- Views: 830
Re: Velutinous
Whilst picking on Spiro Agnew, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In gave me the word tomentose , which I gather he deployed in some fashion. Judging from the definition and images, it means velutinous. https://www.healthbenefitstimes.com/glossary/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Tomentose.jpg Not exactly, but pr...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 7:02 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Cantata
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2950
Re: Cantata
"We must go through a lot of tribulation". In case you're interested, I found a video recording of this cantata to spare others the tribulation of searching. Here it is, on youtube.
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 10:17 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Parody
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4061
Re: Parody
It is not merely US states that have parodies of legislatures, I dare say.
Politics aside, the parodies of Mel Brooks were sheer genius when they came out, and most remain so to this day.
Politics aside, the parodies of Mel Brooks were sheer genius when they came out, and most remain so to this day.
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 7:40 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Recourse
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7029
Re: Recourse
It's interesting how sometimes when you look up a word, it's definition is rather recursive. Recourse means resort, which means recourse. Fun? You decide.
Resort itself might make a decent GW, too.
Resort itself might make a decent GW, too.
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 6:01 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: victim
- Replies: 1
- Views: 792
Re: victim
Taken up and treated here.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 5:39 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Spanner
- Replies: 3
- Views: 841
Re: Spanner
I gather that for the same reason, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" is "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" in the US.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:54 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Demarche
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8899
Re: Demarche
I seem to feel that this is often used in the sense of making the first move in order to gain an advantage over a perceived or actual foe. As in the Taiwan example.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:20 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: GOSSIP
- Replies: 1
- Views: 10636
Re: GOSSIP
Question for our British readers; do you use gossip in meaning 3?