An interesting idea, genobility, but what would people do afterward? It's much like the search for Utopia, you can't get there. If you ever did, you'd die of boredom. To boot, while I expect it will become possible to modify genes for beauty and brains, just where does compassion lie? For an interes...

An excellent word. Now, if someone would care to explain why or how "swell" came to be what we do with pride. Is it perhaps related to a certain swelling in a certain part of the male anatomy, about which many men are quite proud, inordinately or not? Or is it much simpler, as in the idea ...

I must concur on the worthiness of this word for the AA series here. A shame it has been passed over all these years.

Does anyone concur?

Here's a nice map of the flood areas in Pakistan (at the bottom of the article).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11046139

It has several dam points that are called barrages. I'm glad I read the GWoTD, or I'd have had no clue as to what these things were.

willy-nilly

Is this perhaps originally
will he, nil he

in other words, whether he wants to or not...

See http://www.alphadictionary.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=4349 for a short discussion of this one.

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This is just a coincidence. The words may share four letters, but not any roots.

According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, Saltire also comes from from the same source, as does the aforementioned Salient . Did you know that salient point referred to the heart of an embryo in the 1670s? Serendipity. I love this word, and love when it happens. Your link to Saltire at etymonli...

Not a word that will be used much in American English anymore. Along with all the other words that have the nig combination of letters, I expect it will, if it hasn't already, disappear from contemporary use.

Ah, an Etruscan root. Not too common, those.

And, for what it's worth, don't fall into the trap I almost did. Though the words have a certain similarity, and both words are rather often used about women, hysteria and histrionics are not related.

You can have hysterical histrionics from anyone.

Aye, this word continues to be a hot button issue in politics.

Now, about emigrant: Does anyone really use this word anymore? If so, how?

Kt must have really liked this one, as she re-upped the suggestion slightly less than two months later. Guess what, it's still available for use.

How would you folks go about using this one? Care to share?

Good word. Re-suggested two years later:

http://www.alphadictionary.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=2285

Treated soon thereafter:

http://www.alphadictionary.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=2432

Though my praise comes nearly three years behind the times, excellent word, Mark. Political use: US soldiers in Iraq have been sent in without a proper panoply of defensive armor. Business use: Many start-ups have been convinced by smart marketers to buy a panoply of equipment they will never really...

Meaning: 1. To equivocate, to be ambivalent or indecisive. 2. To reverse position, to apostatize, to go over to the other side.

Have I ever? Well, on #1, I expect almost everyone has at some point or another. I'm not sure if I've ever done #2, in this sense.