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#87774 11/24/02 06:38 PM
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I used to have this damned stull pulling shingles off my barn. I could never understand
why some people thought it attractive.Never saw it in Virginia. Have you, WW?
bittersweet .

>1 a North American twining woody vine (Celastrus scandens) of the staff-tree family, with poisonous leaves, and bearing clusters of small orange fruits with bright-red fleshy seeds
2 a poisonous, climbing European vine (Solanum dulcamara) of the nightshade family, with purple flowers and red berries, now widely found as a weed in North America
3 a) bitterness and sweetness combined b) pleasure mixed with overtones of sadness
adj.
1 both bitter and sweet, as dark chocolate made with little sugar
2 pleasant with overtones of sadness



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I'm absolutely mad about bittersweet! Love the stuff!

When dried, it looks beautiful displayed in a rustic basket.

I'm almost positive I've written about this before on AWAD.

I wish I knew where to find some now. I'd go gather some for a Thanksgiving arrangement.


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Dear WW: Your bittersweet must be prettier than what I had in MA. Of course.
I was spoiled by having lots of holly with berries. Far prettier than bittersweet.
Did you know holly has berries of different germination time? Some won't
germinate ;unless a bird has eaten them, some germinate first year, some
skip a year. I forget exact details, it was long ago I heard about it.
Of course there are far more male trees than female. At least only one
in a hundred has berries, or it seems like it.


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I had a run-in or two with the holly in New Jersey this September. Darn stuff is not safe for nellipots.

EDIT I stand kerected and barefooted. Nelipot is the werd.

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Dear consuelo: whatinnell are "nellipots"?


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whatinnell

Good question, Dr. Bill. I thought it was maybe a wwftd, but not since I've ben subscribing. M-W and AHD both refuse to acknowledge it.


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I've heard the term "nellipot," but can't recall what it means. I'll check onelook.


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Spelling:

nelipot

"nelipot - ( )
Someone who is walking without shoes "

From the Grandiloquent on Onelook.


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Oh, L, I added one too many .......
Guess I'll have to sit down and will go no
further in this spelling bee

http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=miscellany&Number=70986


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Conniesuelo:

Don't you worry a second about that "l."

I subtracted 2000 from 1997 last week here on AWAD and got 1797, or something like that, for the remainder.

I would love to have a list of major errors I've made here on AWAD, such as crediting Gilbert and Sullivan with "Anything Goes."

One extra little ol' "l" ain't nuthin' by comparison--especially since wwh has spotted a probable error on one of the spelling bee sites.


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