"Let me ingeminate, I am not a crook."

Thank you for the tutorial. I'd forgotten completely about the mode and range. I also thought the median was the number at which 50% are above, and 50% below. This tutorial doesn't put it that way. Oh, well, shows what I know, eh?

Slava

A simple little word that has had lots of different meanings and usages.

Enjoy,

Slava

I could have sworn that way back when, in grade school, we were taught that these each had different meanings in Math. However, I can't come up with a difference between mean and average. Am I mis-remembering, or is there a difference? Any math wiz out there who'd care to help?

Thanks,

Slava

I'd call this one rare. However, it's quite useful in meaning: To leave without paying. Though I gather the Scots use it to mean a brawl. Then again, if you do try to swedge, a brawl could result.

Slava

(STORE-gee) The love of a parent for offspring.

A fun word, and a lot easier to remember than philoprogeneity.

Slava

A liquid Ben-Gay, perhaps?

I came across this reading some short stories from the late 19th century, Rivals to Sherlock Holmes. It struck me it might have a use for sesquipedalians.

Slava

Aye, that's the ticket. I don't have any of mine in my computer, and have no clue as how to post them anyway, so I can't share. But thanks for yours.

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gailr,

I've seen this effect, too. I used to have an apartment that faced away from the sunset. Thus the buildings around me often looked like they were on fire, from the way the sun hit the windows. I took pictures at times, because it was so realistic.

Slava

I have a real-life use, not related to hair or copper wire. Actually two. 1) Yesterday there was a lovely cupreous glow to the evening sky as the sun dipped below the horizon. 2) My pizza last night had very greasy pepperoni, so the bottom of the box was covered with a rather cupreous slime. Fortuna...

I'm afraid I'm lost on this one. Does this have a meaning, or is it an inside joke? The dictionaries on-line don't have it.

Slava the Dense

Could red-heads be described as having cupreous locks? Poetically, I'm sure, but they'd probably deck you if you used in to their face. Along those lines, how does the Agora feel about the use of they and their to avoid he/she and his/her? It seems to be becoming quite common, though at times it doe...

While not a "nice" word in its meanings, it's still a good word. If you say it with a little "burp," it feels much like what it means. I'm not sure if we can come up with many fun ways to use it, but I'm quite sure there are plenty of uses today, especially when speaking of polit...

Hi,

I haven't gotten my word the last two days. Is anyone else suffering from withdrawal?

Meaning, is it just me? I'd hate to re-sign up and then start getting two, and have to resign, and then not get any, and so on back and forthing ad nauseum.

Slava

Yes, this is the one with the patricide punishment. Rather gruesome, no? I've read the first two in the series, and should be getting more any day now. A new one is coming out this month, and I've already ordered it, so when it's published I'll get it and all the others I'm missing. Regards, Slava