Search found 1476 matches
- Tue Jun 21, 2011 10:01 am
- Forum: Grammar
- Topic: Never = certainly not
- Replies: 6
- Views: 12573
- Tue Jun 21, 2011 9:54 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: STAVE
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5210
- Mon Jun 20, 2011 12:32 pm
- Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
- Topic: Pronunciation of "Missouri"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 15334
- Mon Jun 20, 2011 11:28 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: OVERWEEN
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2519
Re: OVERWEEN
(It would be overweening of us to take all the credit for today's Good Word, so we will rightfully share credit with John Evans, who first suggested it.)
Really?
I have so many names I can't keep up

- Mon Jun 20, 2011 11:17 am
- Forum: Slang
- Topic: Why did LOL infiltrate the language?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 12239
Good story. I agree that some sort of emotive tool helps in textual relationships, but "LOL" overdoes it, and "LMAO" even more so. The subtler "<g>" or an emoticon like :-) is more proportional for the actual intent most of the time. As even the apologist in the article notes, "'Lol' means 'yes, I u...
- Mon Jun 20, 2011 11:00 am
- Forum: Grammar
- Topic: The "Nonplussed" Problem
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9117
- Mon Jun 20, 2011 10:45 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: ETIOLATE
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3733
Re: ETIOLATE
Yes, the first thing I think of when making food is, "oh wait, I can't make those together-- the colors will clash" (/snark)Etiolated asparagus works well on plates where green clashes with the colors of the other servings.
Nice word though.
- Wed Mar 03, 2010 2:09 am
- Forum: Grammar
- Topic: would have/had
- Replies: 22
- Views: 25927
I left home early.... What about this one? I left home early to make sure I would have extra time in case I were to get lost. The uncertainty of getting lost seems to call for the subjunctive. Sounds stuffier, but the meaning is certainly clear. I agree that this is the clearest version yet. The mo...
- Tue Mar 02, 2010 7:18 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: bruxism
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5048
How very incisive! I like it- a word with some dentsity, by gum.
Of course, we've already chewed on this one before...
Of course, we've already chewed on this one before...
- Tue Mar 02, 2010 7:01 pm
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: Agora Font Poll
- Replies: 19
- Views: 45937
Referring back to the double-space after full stop request , if the font currently used can be changed to something that doesn't squeeze sentences together so much, that would be a big help. I don't remember seeing this poll before, but having been referred here I just tried to vote for a serif chan...
- Tue Mar 02, 2010 6:50 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Sad Names
- Replies: 42
- Views: 33268
This is always loads of pun :D I made up a couple of names for radio colleagues- Myra Flection was one, although the last name is a stretch. And this was the basis of my stage name Jerry Grette in the Basin Street Sheiks . But a colleague made up her own radio name that I've always envied: Jenny Say...
- Tue Mar 02, 2010 6:44 pm
- Forum: Grammar
- Topic: would have/had
- Replies: 22
- Views: 25927
Seems to me it's dependent on the phrase "in case". With that in there, #1 works. If in case was replaced with a simple if , then #3 works best, and the whole sentence flows better: I left home early to make sure I would have extra time if I got lost. -but either one denotes a conditional. Using bot...
- Tue Mar 02, 2010 6:37 pm
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: Sentences sentenced to head-on collisions
- Replies: 27
- Views: 42945
- Tue Mar 02, 2010 5:54 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: SNOG
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9334
Never heard of this one, although I agree with Saparris that it's not the most sonorous synonym. Sounds like it has to do with either bad air or nasal congestion. I'm disappointed that spark didn't make Doc's list of synonyms :? Another little factlet: I've always understood "make whoopee" as going ...
- Tue Mar 02, 2010 5:44 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: DIDDLY-SQUAT
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3610