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- Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:35 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Minstrel
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6639
Re: Minstrel
This morning this word reminded me of the wonderful Gordon Lightfoot song, "The Minstrel of the Dawn." I hadn't heard it in quite some time, but it still sounds great.
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 1:19 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Adoxography
- Replies: 5
- Views: 508
Re: Adoxography
Lambent link.
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:39 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Impromptu
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7855
Re: Impromptu
I can see why impromptitude never caught on; it really should mean lateness, not spur-of-the-momentness.
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 6:59 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Cantle
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6536
Re: Cantle
A difficult one to remember, for me at least. There's cant argot, the gait canter, an intoning chanter, etc. vying for memory space. Being rare doesn't help much, either. I would like to be able to remember the back end of a saddle, though. Just to go along with pommel. A word we haven't seen here, ...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 3:04 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Efflorescence
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3747
Re: Efflorescence
Well, it's the middle of April and we've got showers in my neck of the woods. May they bring an efflorescence of May flowers!
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 3:40 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Precarity
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2765
Re: Precarity
Though teeth can theoretically be in a pre-carious state (no caries, as yet), which would make long term health prospects precarious, those "cariouses" aren't related. Unless there's some Proto PIE hiding out there.
This one's from PIE prek-/prok-, while t'other's from kere-. Wild.
This one's from PIE prek-/prok-, while t'other's from kere-. Wild.
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 3:28 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Coterie
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3295
Re: Coterie
Basically, yes. Now I'm also thinking that coterie may be in the middle, but it can go either way, depending on how it's deployed by the user and taken by the usee.
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 11:23 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Coterie
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3295
Re: Coterie
If a cabal is usually up to no good, and a clique is as much for the exclusion of others as for the inclusion of like minds, where does a coterie fall? Any thoughts?
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 10:57 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: peroration
- Replies: 2
- Views: 406
Re: peroration
Dr, Goodword has treated this word, here. Perhaps someone would like to be the first to post a reply to it?
Welcome to the Agora, by the way!
Welcome to the Agora, by the way!
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 6:51 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Exemplar
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6734
Re: Exemplar
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?
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:36 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Velutinous
- Replies: 1
- Views: 414
Velutinous
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...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 8:07 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Maundy
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7724
Re: Maundy
For more on maundy money, see here.
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 5:33 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Volitant
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3266
Re: Volitant
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.
I remember well some summer eves, walking among the volitant swallows swooping about, gobbling up the pesky mosquitos.
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 9:14 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Bibelot
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3135
Re: Bibelot
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 ...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 6:19 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Avast
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2780
Re: Avast
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.
Avast the word is quite popular with crossword constructors, too.