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- Mon Mar 01, 2021 12:39 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Carom
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2612
Re: Carom
I always thought of carom to mean bouncing a ball off another in a calculated move. You see pool players (or at least I did when we had a miniature table at home way back when) calculating angles before taking their turn. Careening , to me, always meant flying off wildly. Think of joyriding teenager...
- Thu Jan 21, 2021 12:21 am
- Forum: WELCOME HOME!
- Topic: Mean This Does What?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 13945
Re: Mean This Does What?
Took me a minute to decipher the headline.
- Mon Dec 21, 2020 6:01 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Scatology
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6026
- Sat Dec 19, 2020 7:35 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Scatology
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6026
Re: Scatology
Scatology should be about singing songs you don't know the words to.
- Sat Dec 19, 2020 7:17 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Macaronic
- Replies: 21
- Views: 18696
Re: Macaronic
David Myer: I would have wondered what a schwa had to do with eating! :lol: And thanks for saving me the task of trying to translate that lyric. :) And the poems were great. They remind me of a book I may have mentioned long ago, Anguish Languish ("English Language"), which was a somewhat ...
- Sat Dec 19, 2020 6:53 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Brusque
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9615
Re: Brusque
I've noticed that, Slava. Most unfortunate.
- Sat Dec 19, 2020 6:46 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Folk
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9824
Re: Folk
I know quite a few West Africans, who tend to say weckum for "welcome," but other than that I haven't noticed anyone having any problem pronouncing the L. Tawk, though, is universal...
- Sat Dec 19, 2020 6:40 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Afflatus
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3423
Re: Afflatus
I had to chuckle at today's Good Word, because what immediately came to mind was flatus. I see George thought like I did.
Wow, it's been a long time. I'll try to get back to posting more often, maybe daily.
Wow, it's been a long time. I'll try to get back to posting more often, maybe daily.
- Wed Jul 29, 2020 4:21 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Pediment
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6957
Re: Pediment
How is this related to impediment?
I was wondering the same thing...
- Fri Jun 05, 2020 10:32 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Globaloney
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6604
Re: Globaloney
There might be a hint of baloney's transformation to mean "nonsense" in Oscar Mayer's old slogan: "Real baloney, not phony baloney." Maybe it started out as just rhyming slang?
- Fri Mar 27, 2020 2:45 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Am
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9184
Re: Am
The great I am. Hmm. In Australia (and it may not be unique to here) we had a senior businessman with an over-inflated ego. He was known as Fig Jam - an acronym for "Fxxk I'm great. Just ask me". I wonder if the concept was created here or is widely used elsewhere as well? I've actually h...
- Mon Jan 20, 2020 3:03 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Vituperate
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7192
Re: Vituperate
Three words I always associate with one another are vituperation, vitriol, and invective. I've seen other forms of the first two but never any other form of invective, though, and I've very rarely heard it, only seen it in print.
- Mon Jan 20, 2020 2:57 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Toodle-oo
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5785
Re: Toodle-oo
Never heard or saw toodle-pip before. I've heard and seen, to paraphrase an old cartoon, "toodle-oo, pip-pip, cheerio, and all that rot" many times before.
- Wed Jan 08, 2020 6:04 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Turkey
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4560
Re: Turkey
I'm inclined to believe that the Portuguese name for the bird, peru, comes from some sound the bird makes other than gobbling... but I'm no expert.
- Wed Jan 08, 2020 6:01 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Mosey
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4578
Re: Mosey
My South Carolina-born dad used to love to say things like "time to mosey on out of here."