Why invent (or backform) 'sipid' as the antonym of 'insipid'?
Who banished 'sapid' [having savor or flavor; palatable (Webster's Collegiate, 5th ed)] into outer darkness?

sipid...sapid

Do we have us a case of reverse umlaut going on here?

innocuous is very common, I have never seen "nocuous" until I just now looked it up. Perhaps "noxious" took its place.

Now don't be uncouth, dr. bill.
[Would "anastrophic" count?]

And by the way, clyde, that was a SUPERB question. Thank you, and welcome aboard!

Dear Keiva: I cannot be "kempt" because a washcloth is all I need. But I manage to be unkempt for all of that.

"Wait'll you hear this!" he said chalantly.

Very eptly done, slithy.

"What did I do wrong?" he asked nocently.

My cousin gave me a book of poems written by Felicia Lamport and illustrated by Edward Gorey which contains one about "souciance."


k

My impressions of this matter are quite delible, markable, and phatic.





The Only WO'N!

markable and phatic? Bad form, old boy.

dr. bill, is it thinkable that W'ON would have no rationale that makes his post explicable? Let's be more gonistic.

markable and phatic? Bad form, old boy.

re em > reem > I guess I just got reemed, huh?


The Only WO'N!

Dear WO'N: you reminded me of my wife's favorite grandfather, a traveling salesman, who picked up a lot of salty expressions from his companions, and got revenge for being henpecked by teaching his wife and my mother-in-law some of them, which they repeated totally unaware of the indecent content. So I had trouble keeping my face straight when my mother-in-law would complain about having been "rimmed" in an unsatisfactory purchase.He also taught them to describe being detained by pointless conversation as being "hung up by the tongue." I had to explain that to my wife to keep her from using it. She had trouble believing her dear sweet grandfather could be so devious.

AWAD members can cut the mustard!

WW m.m.

this was Anu's theme of the week a while back:

http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=weeklythemes&Number=12440

(and, of course, Quinion)
http://www.quinion.com/words/articles/unpaired.htm

FF: My cousin gave me a book of poems written by Felicia Lamport and illustrated by Edward Gorey which contains one about "souciance."

I can see where this would happen FF, since souciance is a word commonly used in French - so is insouciance. Correct me if I'm wrong all you word etymology mavens out there but insouciance looks like it has been borrowed from the French.

And for those who may be interested in WW's "cut the mustard" here is Quinion's (www.worldwidewords.com) URL about it:

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-cut1.htm

And for those who may be interested in WW's "cut the mustard" here is Quinion's (www.worldwidewords.com) URL about it: When I tested it, it worked only with edit,copy,,,edit, paste

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-cut1.htm

"ana" is not a negative. YCLIU

"ana" is not a negative. YCLIU


From Merriam-Webster's:

Main Entry: ana-
Variant(s): or an-
Function: prefix
Etymology: Latin, from Greek, up, back, again, from ana up -- more at ON
1 : up : upward <anabolism>
2 : back : backward <anatropous>

Backward is postive?

And what about anaphrodisia?





The Only WO'N!

re: And what about anaphrodisia?

Juan-- what part of getting up is negative?

back can be a return, or in anastrophia, a back(wards) formation of a sentence. not negative.. Order reversed, still, meaning clear.not very good at that on the spur of the moment.