Julep also reminds me of "One Mint Julep," a great instrumental by Ray Charles.

Wasn't that one of the names Linus Van Pelt used to call his sister Lucy in the Peanuts comic strip?

I seem to recall some interaction in school where someone commented on a teacher's use of the word betroth, and made a joke about someone pledging their trough.

Was this the original source or inspiration for the word coalition?

A wordy but now-retired coworker used to refer to emergencies as "emergent situations." (He once told me I should use my leave time so as to give myself a "restorative break." He could have left out the last four syllables. )

As a child I was a voracious reader, always leaving the library with as many books as I could safely carry.

So... Heidi Fleiss was tried in the court of public opinion (and others) and found wanton?

Sounds like one of those words Professor Frink made up on The Simpsons

That German relative is pronounced "rekken," no?

Whenever I see or hear the word lollygag I'm reminded of an episode of The Flintstones where Fred proactively ended the feud with his country cousins the Hatrocks, then unwittingly reinstated it.

I have to wonder: if the word comes from a Germanic root, maybe it came from the Germanic tribes that invaded southern and western Europe during the Migration Period?

Once again I turn to the words of Homer J. Simpson: "Have you forgotten what you promised at our wedding? To love and cherish, to aid and abet?"

"Massive Ordinance Air Blast"? I always thought -- and since we're talking about the military there may be something to this -- that it stood for "mother of all bombs." :o Somewhere, in fiction at least (if nowhere else), there must be a Moab Airlines, with a photo of planes capt...

Several European languages (German, French, Russian, Polish, ...) use the English word smoking for tuxedo. Tuxedoes were considered similar to smoking jackets . Interesting that French uses the English word to represent a tuxedo, since France actually has a government watchdog agency to "safeg...

Unguentous ? :? I prefer the related unctuous , though I guess that "oilyness" is more metaphorical. :) I saw the word in a nostalgic article about the Isley Brothers in reference to lead singer Ronald, calling him something like "maybe the most unctuous of the soul balladeers."