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- Tue Apr 30, 2024 6:56 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Inventory
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2556
Re: Inventory
I sometimes try to play with inventory to make it a manufacturing line of inventions - 'invention factory' = 'inventory'. Just put the accent on the 'e' and it kind of works.
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 6:07 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Conscience
- Replies: 2
- Views: 63
Re: Conscience
Unless, of course, we are talking about the science of the con!Alas, a defendant who has scienter may nevertheless be lacking in conscience.
Having a conscience goes hand in hand with being moral, wouldn't you say?
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 6:45 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Ramadan
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2651
Re: Ramadan
It must be about time for the lunar calendars to add their 'leap' month. Next year Ramadan begins on February 28th!
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 5:43 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Animus
- Replies: 1
- Views: 9526
Re: ANIMUS
After a some thought over the course of today, I've pretty much come to the conclusion that Meaning 2 has completely obliterated Meaning 1. It may be there when reading an older text, but all I feel is the animosity version when I think of it.
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 5:33 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Figurehead
- Replies: 1
- Views: 115
Re: Figurehead
Aren't the Kings and Queens of Great Britain now basically figureheads of state? It's the PM who really holds the reins, correct?
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 4:10 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Accost
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2596
Re: Accost
As far as going up to someone and addressing them, I can't think of a word other than the simple 'approach' that isn't aggressive or bold. You?
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 5:52 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Obdurate
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3629
Re: Obdurate
For the process of becoming obdurate, see indurate.
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 5:22 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Scrimp
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5985
Re: Scrimp
Seems to me that meaning 1 is only if used with something about saving, and even then it could still be taken as 2, Then again, I guess we could say something like, "He scrimped up enough to buy his texts for this term"? Without the 'up', though, it would feel like meaning 2 to me.
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 12:57 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Stentorian
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6098
Re: Stentorian
Especially given the shared root, I think I'd accept 'stentorian thunder' as a non-voice related usage. Anyone else?
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 6:38 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Superstition
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3557
Re: Superstition
I don't think I can see this word without thinking Stevie Wonder. That was a great song. Here's a youboob version, in case you want a listen.
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 4:14 pm
- Forum: WELCOME HOME!
- Topic: Just a query about punctuation.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 48932
Re: Just a query about punctuation.
Odd choice of phrasing. I'd simply put the food trucks before the bounce house. It eliminates the need for a comma and puts the funner, perhaps more enticing attraction, at the end, giving it more emphasis.
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 3:20 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Concord
- Replies: 8
- Views: 354
Re: Concord
Here's a piece on the internot I found that explains some of the differences. It gets repetitive, and may even be machine generated for all I know, but it does help. Of course, accordance and concordance have different usages, at least as far as making a list of words used by an author or in a work...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 7:26 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Twee
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6042
Re: Twee
Back in the olden days before the name change, I guess one could have twee tweets with a sweetie?
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 5:43 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Exculpatory
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2550
Re: Exculpatory
"Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa" (intoned while beating one's breast).
Anachronistic or facetious now, but a formal way of begging forgiveness once upon a time.
Anachronistic or facetious now, but a formal way of begging forgiveness once upon a time.
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 5:32 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Cartoon
- Replies: 2
- Views: 172
Re: Cartoon
In case the Greek and Semitic words made you think it, too, here's harass, which turns out not to be related. People can be harassed with cartoons, though.