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- Mon Dec 14, 2009 4:50 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: interesting words
- Replies: 6
- Views: 21448
- Mon Dec 14, 2009 1:59 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: haywire
- Replies: 12
- Views: 16535
haywire
I used this word in a blog post complaining about the operating system on my "new" media player (Archos 605 Wifi 160GB) and it occurred to me that non-Americans may have little idea what it means. (I'm thinking the context may hint that it means something like "off course" but I ...
- Sun Dec 06, 2009 9:18 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: COCTION
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5788
- Tue Nov 24, 2009 2:46 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: SENILE
- Replies: 18
- Views: 22386
- Mon Nov 23, 2009 3:05 pm
- Forum: WELCOME HOME!
- Topic: Latin's descendants
- Replies: 115
- Views: 421905
Re: Latin's descendants
In today's good word, the good dr commented that French was a derivation of Latin. I wonder what made that language so different from Spanish, Portugese, and Italian. Probably has something to do with the Normans, who settled in the North of France. They brought a Scandinavian influence to the lang...
- Mon Nov 23, 2009 2:48 pm
- Forum: WELCOME HOME!
- Topic: Latin's descendants
- Replies: 115
- Views: 421905
in Galícia (northwestern Spain), the local Spanish is said to sound closer to Portuguese than classical Spanish. Again, it's the local (western, Celtic) influence. Ethnologue (and other language sites) show Galician, a language in its own right, as being an offshoot of Portuguese that happens to be...
- Sun Nov 22, 2009 6:31 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: PERNICKETY
- Replies: 29
- Views: 39359
- Sun Nov 22, 2009 1:31 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: VENAL OR VENIAL SINS?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11495
- Sun Nov 22, 2009 1:16 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: SHENANIGANS
- Replies: 9
- Views: 11877
Before my time -- I was born during the hiatus -- but I vaguely remembered there had been some kind of show called Shenanigans.Shenanigans from my mis-spent early teen years ...
(Why does hiatus sound dirty? )
- Sun Nov 22, 2009 1:01 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: GLOAMING
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9788
- Sun Nov 22, 2009 12:42 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: PERNICKETY
- Replies: 29
- Views: 39359
- Tue Oct 20, 2009 3:27 pm
- Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
- Topic: Your'n
- Replies: 3
- Views: 39257
- Tue Oct 20, 2009 3:21 pm
- Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
- Topic: Naw'Ca'lyna Accent
- Replies: 9
- Views: 40133
- Tue Oct 20, 2009 2:10 pm
- Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
- Topic: Naw'Ca'lyna Accent
- Replies: 9
- Views: 40133
- Tue Oct 20, 2009 1:07 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: oxymoron
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11276
Re: oxymoron
That's oxymoronlist.NET, not oxymoronlist.COM.A contradiction in terms. Some examples are available at Oxymoron List.