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- Mon Apr 22, 2024 3:33 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Escarpment
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2877
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: 80282
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: 92
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: 3069
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: 3444
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: 145
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: 2464
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: 3477
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: 5371
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: 166
Re: victim
Taken up and treated here.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 5:39 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Spanner
- Replies: 3
- Views: 137
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: 7072
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: 8895
Re: GOSSIP
Question for our British readers; do you use gossip in meaning 3?
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 6:37 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Cenacle
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2566
Re: Cenacle
Cenation is another one, and Cenatical was out there, too (lower right corner):.
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 6:25 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Earth
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2432
Re: Earth
Earth Day and Week are coming up;
Take a Clod to Lunch!
Take a Clod to Lunch!