A new word site - 01/27/03 04:22 PM
I found about a dozen words here new to me. See how many are new to you.
http://www.hollyandjustin.com/JustinFiles/CoolWord.html
http://www.hollyandjustin.com/JustinFiles/CoolWord.html
Re: Apocope - 01/27/03 04:35 PM
Shouldn't that be pronounced AH-puh-coap?
Re: A new word site - 01/27/03 04:38 PM
I reckon on a fairly rapid skim through that there were about 20 that were completely new to me. Strangely these were almost all in the first half of the alphabet. A good list.
Today's Oxford word for the day was new to me:
bovrilize
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an old-fashioned verb meaning 'to condense something to its essence'. This example is from a 1911 edition of the Daily News: 'Here is one of those bovrilized announcements: Wanted, Sit. as Comp. by Eng. Lady, 35; good refs, would trav.' It's taken, of course, from Bovril, the trademark name for a concentrated essence of beef which can be diluted with hot water to make a drink.
Today's Oxford word for the day was new to me:
bovrilize
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an old-fashioned verb meaning 'to condense something to its essence'. This example is from a 1911 edition of the Daily News: 'Here is one of those bovrilized announcements: Wanted, Sit. as Comp. by Eng. Lady, 35; good refs, would trav.' It's taken, of course, from Bovril, the trademark name for a concentrated essence of beef which can be diluted with hot water to make a drink.
Re: A new word site - 01/27/03 04:58 PM
A pot (French) ka pee = a thundermug full of urine My mother came from Belfast, ME, and
used a number of French words.
used a number of French words.
Re: today's obviousizing - 01/27/03 05:20 PM
>Shouldn't that be pronounced AH-puh-coap?
apocope -- n. [uh-PAH-coh-pee] dropping the final sound or syllable of a word
-ron o.
apocope -- n. [uh-PAH-coh-pee] dropping the final sound or syllable of a word
-ron o.
Re: today's obviousizing - 01/27/03 05:22 PM
Thanx ron
Re: today's obviousizing - 01/27/03 09:03 PM
Book 'im, ron o! 
Re: today's obviousizing - 01/28/03 01:18 AM
>Shouldn't that be pronounced AH-puh-coap?
apocope -- n. [uh-PAH-coh-pee] dropping the final sound or syllable of a word
Good one, Faldage! And thanks for the def., tsuwm, 'cause otherwise I wouldn't have caught the humor.
apocope -- n. [uh-PAH-coh-pee] dropping the final sound or syllable of a word
Good one, Faldage! And thanks for the def., tsuwm, 'cause otherwise I wouldn't have caught the humor.