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- Tue Dec 05, 2023 7:17 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Schmooze
- Replies: 8
- Views: 15941
Re: Schmooze
I meant the book, in the sense of "a chat, gossip." Remember the first line: "Call me Ishmael."
- Sun Dec 03, 2023 7:35 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Gnarly
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8958
Re: Gnarly
"What do we do with girl?" Change the "i" to "r" and maybe add another "r" as in "Riot Grrrl"?
- Thu Nov 30, 2023 7:31 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Unawares
- Replies: 10
- Views: 20088
Re: Unawares
This Word of the Day and the timely death of Mr. Kissinger reminded me of an amusing incident that occurred in 1966. That year the Honorable Arthur J. Goldberg, Secretary of State at the time, gave the University of California, Berkeley, Charter Day speech. Due to Mr Kissinger and Mr Goldberg having...
- Thu Nov 30, 2023 6:51 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Schmooze
- Replies: 8
- Views: 15941
Re: Schmooze
Should we regard Moby Dick as one long schmooze?
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 8:38 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Enfeoffment
- Replies: 19
- Views: 37663
Re: Enfeoffment
According to the link Slava provided "proofing yeast" and "proofing bread" are different things. Proofing yeast proves the yeast is alive and well. What proofing bread proves I don't know. And Slava, thanks for the link. I checked with the Ngram Viewer: "proofing bread"...
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 7:44 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Cosplay
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8463
Re: Cosplay
Japan used to have an active cosplay scene -- I'd see lots of small groups of folks walking around dressed to cosplay (in cosplay mode? cosplaying?) in Odaiba, the magic island in Tokyo bay. But not recently. As for LARP, the New Yorker had a piece on it a year ago. I gather this gathering gathered ...
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 12:04 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Enfeoffment
- Replies: 19
- Views: 37663
Re: Enfeoffment
What is this talk of "proving"bread? Is this the step in making yeast bread when the bread is allowed to RISE until double in bulk? I have consulted "Joy of Cooking," facsimile of the first edition, and in the discussion of bread and bread making there, the words "proof"...
- Tue Nov 14, 2023 8:14 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Enfeoffment
- Replies: 19
- Views: 37663
Re: Enfeoffment
Mr Kovacs, I'm sorry, but your "Corrected text" is as clear as mud. Would you please define or explain "mesne"? I looked it up using the dictionary link on the top page of this site and did not find the Collins definition below helpful. 1. intermediate or intervening: used esp of...
- Fri Nov 10, 2023 7:14 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Quarter
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5699
Re: Quarter
I had the same thought, but then I noticed the phase ". . . found also behind Sanskrit catvara, Persian čatvar, Greek tessares, Latin quattuor, Armenian chors, Russian četyre, Serbian četiri, Polish cztery, Lithuanian keturi, Latvian četri, Irish ceathair, and Welsh pedwar (where Č = CH)" ...
- Fri Oct 20, 2023 9:55 am
- Forum: Idioms
- Topic: work in progress/process
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7881
Re: work in progress/process
bbeeton, I don't know if this example will help, but I have been reading an academic tome, "How to Read a Japanese Poem" by Steven D. Carter, Columbia University Press, 2019. And in it I came across the following sentence. (You gotta read all the way to the end) This tradition continues to...
- Wed Oct 18, 2023 7:34 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Indulgence
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3582
Re: Indulbence
I am confused. Is "indulbence" a typo for "indulgence"? If so, why post it? If not, why is the entire content of the "indulbence" post appear to be a re-post of Good Word Dictionary entry for "indulgence"? Note that Good Word Dictionary does not, as of Oct 19,...
- Wed Oct 11, 2023 10:42 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Toponym
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3016
Re: Toponym
The definition of "eponym" on this site -- "A personal name from which a regular word is derived" and the definition for "toponym" here would suggest a toponym is not an eponym. Yet the first example of an eponym is "Bedlam . . . [from the] Cockney pronunciation of...
- Sun Oct 08, 2023 9:59 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Despot
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3890
Re: Despot
How about "Solon" an eponym from the Athenian statesman 630 to 560 BC
- Sun Oct 08, 2023 9:48 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Arable
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2871
Re: Arable
Slava, you haven't seen rice paddies in all the phases of production. The fields are flooded only in the growing season and are dry throughout the rest of the year. Fields are plowed prior to flooding, the fields are flooded, the rice planted and grown. The fields are drained, the rice harvested and...
- Wed Oct 04, 2023 7:07 pm
- Forum: Grammar
- Topic: Neglectable
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3806
Re: Neglectable
Slava, I went to the article and I think it is not exactly a typo but some sort of brain fog that allowed the author to use the word. I entered "neglectable" into the "Search All Online English Dictionaries at Once!" box on the top page of the alphadictionary.com website and rece...