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Re: jeopard, not jeopardize
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BranShea
33 minutes 44 seconds ago
Hum, as jeopardous and hazardous are related to the verbs jeopardize and hazardize, I thougt there might be at least some system in this dousness.
Not. Arbitrary and random. Like the weather.
BTW, : what's apodous and where can
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Re: Sidebums
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dalehileman
46 minutes 43 seconds ago
Why, thank you Bran, I need a bit of encouragement now and again
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Re: jeopard, not jeopardize
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tsuwm
Today at 11:51 AM
but still, this doesn't touch the 166 to be found in OED.
-joe (I'm just sayin') friday
NB: there is nothing stupendous (or stupidous) about these; they just happen to be words ending in 'd' which have had the suffix -ous affixe
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Re: jeopardous
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BranShea
Today at 10:39 AM
What about two candidate words:
propagandous ;(seen on Urban)
gourmandous ; seen in a blog discussion about food
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Re: jeopardous
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Faldage
Today at 07:57 AM
Originally Posted By: nancykDisastrous? Calamitous? Both fairly common, I think.
But neither of them end in -dous is the onliest thing.
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Re: jeopardous
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morphememedley
Yesterday at 10:36 PM
couldous adj. concerned with possibility or capability: The motivational speaker gave his usual couldous talk.
Forget it; I made it up. Whew, now I don't have to go back and attempt to give the pronunciation.
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Re: jeopardous
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nancyk
Yesterday at 07:27 PM
Disastrous? Calamitous? Both fairly common, I think.
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Re: Sidebums
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BranShea
Yesterday at 02:59 PM
Originally Posted By: dalehileman
(2) Did anyone at first glance misread the heading as "sideburns"
Me, no. But I like your word as a headline for our avatars
here.
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Weekly Themes
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Re: Sideburns
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Myridon
Yesterday at 02:23 PM
In one of Sheri S. Tepper's books, a primitive culture is visited by a space traveller whom they mistake for a god. After all the planet's problems are solved, the space traveller leaves with the parting remark "Don't let anyone mess with your heads
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Re: Sidebums
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morphememedley
Yesterday at 02:03 PM
The stampede of IronicSans commenters who praise the new term reminds me of lemmings.
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Re: Help!
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tsuwm
Yesterday at 12:51 PM
and then Sonic (the Hedgehog) declaimith not:
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face
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Re: Help!
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BranShea
Yesterday at 12:23 PM
First, thanks for the acronym. We nontechnical outlanders take those words coming in from English for granted. I never knew.
About Google, yes, I know it says Google, but I like to look at the 'double' layer and then I play the little game
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Re: Sidebums
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tsuwm
Yesterday at 11:37 AM
from Tues. Apr 8:
the worthless word for the day is: keming
[fr. misreading kerning] /KEM ing/
the result of improper kerning
(a new typography term: keming )
kerning - the addition or removal of space b
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Sidebums
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dalehileman
Yesterday at 11:23 AM
It's an interesting peculiarity with some PC fonts that "rn" looks like "m", "ri" looks like "n","vv" looks like "w", etc etc. (1) Does this bother anybody else but me who thinks it all ought to be fixed, and
(2) Did anyone at first glanc
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Re: dyspareunia
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zmjezhd
Yesterday at 10:24 AM
"autoquiroerastia"
well, qu is not something you find in Greek words. It doesn't bring to mind anything in Latin. (Perhaps it's related to the Catalan cognate of Spanish querer 'to want, desire' which is from Latin quaro, quaerare, 'to loo
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Re: dyspareunia
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of troy
Yesterday at 10:00 AM
re: calling this obviously unadvisable practice
why? there is now evidence (scant, but...) that masturbation is healthy for men (the jury is still out on woman)
(and now i am thinking about the root meaning of masturbation..Urba
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Re: Help!
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tsuwm
Yesterday at 09:55 AM
laser is actually an acronym : Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. [EA]
look closer at the image, it's intended to read 'Google'; e.g., the last character is l.c. 'e', not 'Z'..
-ron o.
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Re: Help!
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BranShea
Yesterday at 06:40 AM
Google celebrating the anniversary ? of the invention of the first lazer by changing its name to GDOXIZ ?
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Re: Help!
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olly
Yesterday at 06:09 AM
Something Lunary returns some interesting results.
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Re: Help!
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The Pook
Yesterday at 05:47 AM
I think if it is a recurring event you would just say "this month's xyz" or if it is just to mark a month since a once off xyz happened, you would say "it's been a month since xyz." There is no commonly used single word term.
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Re: Sideburns
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The Pook
Yesterday at 04:16 AM
Originally Posted By: BranShea Originally Posted By: zmjezhdsideburns
Are they not the corners of the beard? (link and link). Are these the ten commandments and a lot more?
5) They shall not make baldness upon their head, n
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Re: jazey
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morphememedley
05/15/08 01:47 PM
Flax? Ah yes, good fiber in the event a jazey is accidentally ingested during a windstorm.
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Re: jazey
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BranShea
05/15/08 01:11 PM
Great!
add to this:
and so called because they are made of Jersey flax and fine wool.
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Re: dyspareunia
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Jose Gros
05/15/08 01:08 PM
Hi!: I once heard about a Catalonian Psychiatrist that used to advise some of his patients masturbation as part of the therapy process, calling this obviously unadvisable practice "autoquiroerastia". As someone of you seem having an above the average
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