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- Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:14 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Incipient
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2661
Re: Incipient
If we do change the 'c' to an 's', and the middle 'i' to an 'a', we can create 'insapient'. It's the 'non' meaning of in-, not the 'in', but I like it. We may be scientifically called homo sapiens , but so often we act insapiently. ( Sapient on the Agora.) It may even actually have been a word once ...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:02 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Furbish
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2615
Re: Furbish
I'm going to have to keep the re-. I keep trying to make this word mean furnish.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:27 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Relevant
- Replies: 2
- Views: 56
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 6:59 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Dapper
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2726
Re: Dapper
I can see why the roots of this word could mean 'fat' or 'thick'. It is only in the last few generations that being slim and trim were considered signs of health and wealth. So, not that long ago, to be dapper would have required being well-fed and smooth.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 6:50 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Encomium
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2534
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 6:46 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Panegyric
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2942
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:02 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Kickshaw
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5335
Re: Kickshaw
I haven't been dwelling on this one for the last year, I admit, but I will say I don't believe I've ever come across it in the wild. Gewgaw, doodad, etc., yes. But not this one. Anyone?
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:57 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Symptom
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4559
Re: Symptom
Could we go so far as to say that it is symptomatic of the human condition that we find it easier to treat symptoms rather than causes? And once the symptoms have been covered up, we tend to ignore and forget about the causes?
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 6:15 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Cleave
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2646
Re: Cleave
Given the opposite meanings, mightn't Woody grab the superglue and go out to repair the previously cleft firewood?
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:31 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Virgule
- Replies: 1
- Views: 82
Re: Virgule
Taken up and treated here.
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 3:12 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Sultry
- Replies: 3
- Views: 101
Re: Sultry
The connection is also made in French: La petite mort (the little death). It began life as a short loss of consciousness, but took on other meanings.
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 8:25 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Juggernaut
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5180
Re: Juggernaut
While in Notes, the verb form is used for a positive result, I wonder how often juggernaut in general is. It carries so much violent baggage that even when trying to think positive, there are serious negative tones.
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 8:22 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Shibboleth
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3087
Re: Shibboleth
Should anyone out there wish to challenge themselves to a pronunciation battle, Wikipedia has an entire article on Strč prst skrz krk. I can't imagine myself managing it.
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 4:14 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Beck
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2471
Re: Beck
I just learned that Faulkner never graduated from high school. And I'll go out on a limb and say a 2 cent stamp pre-dates anyone on this board. That was a long, long time ago.
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:52 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Criterion
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7742
Re: CRITERION
Nice way of showing how to use the singular.
Too bad too few people with the criteria for being a good anything in political office will stoop to run.
Too bad too few people with the criteria for being a good anything in political office will stoop to run.