Dr, Goodword has treated this word, here. Perhaps someone would like to be the first to post a reply to it?

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A pronunciation thought-let; when saying words in a vacuum, as individuals, I frequently pronounce them too distinctly. As an example, words that begin with ex-. In normal speaking, it probably comes out as eg-z or ig-z. As an individual word, eks-. Is that what others find in their speaking/reading?

The fuzzy GW for 4/10/24: • velutinous • Pronunciation: vê- lut -ên-ês • Hear it! [/url] Part of Speech: Adjective Meaning: Velvety, covered with a fine, soft, silky fiber. Notes: Today's Good Word is one that botanists have been hiding from us for centuries; it is most frequently used to refer to s...

For more on maundy money, see here.

On an infamous note, Volare was also used as the name of a Plymouth automobile that didn't have a great reception.

I remember well some summer eves, walking among the volitant swallows swooping about, gobbling up the pesky mosquitos.

For a double entendre , "Randy Gauntlet was quite taken with the little bibelot he picked up in the airport." I think I have a strange spell-check dictionary, neither entendre nor bibelot was in there until I put them there. There's probably some pun to be made with bibe-a-lot, too, but I ...

Speaking of pirates, there is a gag holiday called Talk Like a Pirate Day. It's on September 19, and next year will be its 30th anniversary.

Avast the word is quite popular with crossword constructors, too.

I don't usually reply first to my own suggestions, but as I just got back from experiencing totality, I figured I'd share. The difference between 99 and 100 percent is literally like turning out the only light in the room. Or more like turning a 3-way bulb down, if you could. Lights are on; go down ...

Bunny is at least a cutsey sounding term of endearment. I watched a movie yesterday, Cover Girl, where Gene Kelly's character called his girlfriend, Rita Hayworh, 'chicken'. Weird.

The relationship to hand goes further, too. After all, isn't a handler one who manipulates? Back in the day, when I got my first job at a pizzeria, we actually measured the ingredients for the sauce by hand. 3 cans of sauce, a manipule of X, a small manipule of Y, 3 more of Q, etc. Of course, we did...

Kowtowing is not a popular activity in the US

Except among certain conservative republicans, that is.

I like morassic. If the US government ever becomes functional again, we could look back and call this the morassic age.

I wondered in an old post if a contrivance were pejorative. Now I'd say that it can be, but if the contriving isn't nice, connivance would be the better word to use. And vice-versa.

Yes, in case you thought it too, having seen the Modern German word, queer is a relative.

Well, the first one is a trimming of utility, covered in utile. Not related to futile, by the by. Perhaps a suggestible word for the Agora?

The Utes, however, seem to have a murky etymology. The closest I got was a 'perhaps from'.