corner SYLLABICATION: cor·ner PRONUNCIATION: kôrnr NOUN: 1a. The position at which two lines, surfaces, or edges meet and form an angle: the four corners of a rectangle. b. The area enclosed or bounded by an angle formed in this manner: sat by myself in the corner; the corner of one's eye. 2. The p...

Just in case you had doubts, it is not 'three cornered' but 'three horned', since' corner' means 'horn'. tricorn SYLLABICATION: tri·corn PRONUNCIATION: trkôrn VARIANT FORMS: also tri·corne NOUN: A hat having the brim turned up on three sides. ADJECTIVE: Having three corners, horns, or projections. E...

GERMAN- Mein Hut, der hat drei Ecken, drei Ecken hat mein Hut, und htt' er nicht drei Ecken, so wr es nicht mein Hut. TRANSLATED- My hat has three corners three corners has my hat and when he had no three corners then it was not my hat Why use seven letters when three will do? :P That's not fair. Y...

The experts are advising not to lose your nerve.
And they promise return with more articulated suggestions as soon as they get off the skyscraper's eaves.

(Ellekappa)

So that should have been Johnny the Drummer? Systranet , my usual translation tool, doesn't translate the -ino or -ini directly. It translates tamburino and tamburini from Italian to English as tamburino and tamburini , meaning that it can't translate them, so I had to play around a bit until I tri...

We have to thank Johnny Littledrum for supplying us with the word that started it all. A modest notation for your vast records: Littledrums and Drummers are undifferentiated in Italian. - Ini is diminutive plural for 'drums', tamburi , and 'drummers' was probably generated by the fact that an army ...

Now I know why 'sap' sounded familiar to me. And remembering 'sapper' and its translation, here it is: sap2 PRONUNCIATION: sp NOUN: A covered trench or tunnel dug to a point near or within an enemy position. VERB: Inflected forms: sapped, sap·ping, saps TRANSITIVE VERB: 1. To undermine the foundatio...

Serving maids in pubs of yore were often referred to as wench; at least in old movies.

Thanks Perry.

I had ben looking 'wench' up and I was infact referring to my previous post, "whence, the wench". Then Slava added "Joe" to the plot....

Whence the wench took that wrench and stuffed it (under the sink?). On a sillier note, Joe the Plumber of debate fame is neither Joe, nor a plumber. Geez, did they really think no one would check it out? Dorks. So, this makes two of them we don't know whence they come from, the maid and the plumber...

Asked one beaver of another, "Oh see can you, blea, by the dawn's early light?"

Poetic

Al*bur"num (#),

n. [L., fr. albus white.] (Bot.) The white and softer part of wood, between the inner bark and the hard wood or duramen; sapwood.

Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition


See also Grogie's good word entry blea

Joe The Plumber, when called to the local pub, had himself wedged under the sink when saw the problem. "Hand me a wrench wench!", he called out to the barmaid.

Whence, the wench?

Perhaps the correct form should have been:

Whence from, the wench?

You can say it all with just one word if you go back to the roots! wrench PRONUNCIATION: rnch NOUN: 1. A sudden sharp, forcible twist or turn. 2. An injury produced by twisting or straining. 3. A sudden tug at one's emotions; a surge of compassion, sorrow, or anguish. 4a. A break or parting that ca...

As the hippo's jaws clamped on Henry's body he noted the four huge teeth badly in need of a clean, preferably with one of those electric sonic toothbrushes, and he reflected that his name would be immortalized by his unusual death, since hippo killings are not a daily occurrence, at least not in th...

The crater of the volcano glowed red against the black sky, looking as if God had taken a drag of His cigar - if He smoked - which of course, He didn't.

Want of political correctness, I wonder, or true statement?