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#114312 - 10/24/03 12:13 AM Inobvious
Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/06/00 Posts: 2788 Loc: Seattle, Washington, USA	The spell-checker on my Microsoft Word 2000 program questioned my use of the word "inobvious" and recommended that I use "unobvious" insted. Ready to ridicule the byte-heads at Microsoft, I consulted the One-Look On-Line Dictionary and it told me that there is no such word. Alas. Can it be? I have used this word for decades. Am I speaking English here?
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#114313 - 10/24/03 06:57 AM Re: Inobvious
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13653	OED doesn't even have it. Have you checked wwftd? Or maybe you should switch to disobvious (pre-cross-threading).
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#114314 - 10/24/03 07:27 AM Re: Inobvious
Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 7184 Loc: Vermont	or ask Ron... _________________________ formerly known as etaoin...
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#114315 - 10/24/03 08:52 AM Re: Inobvious
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13653	ask Ron Or Inron…
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#114316 - 10/24/03 09:11 AM this may seem nonobvious, but
ron obvious stranger Registered: 04/26/03 Posts: 7	MSW and OED may fail you, but you will no doubt be pleased to learn that the US end-all-and-be-all of lexicons (W3I) gives inobvious, with the obvious etymology in + obvious but no citations. _________________________ ron obvious
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#114317 - 10/24/03 04:10 PM Re: this may seem nonobvious, but
Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/06/00 Posts: 2788 Loc: Seattle, Washington, USA	I'm feeling much better already. Padre
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#114318 - 10/24/03 07:07 PM Re: this may seem nonobvious, but
Zed Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/27/02 Posts: 2154 Loc: British Columbia, Canada	Hey maybe they'll cite you and you can be even more famous.
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#114319 - 10/24/03 08:05 PM Fame
Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/06/00 Posts: 2788 Loc: Seattle, Washington, USA	"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one." ~ Cato the Elder
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#114320 - 10/24/03 08:38 PM Re: Fame
Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 7184 Loc: Vermont	good one, Father. _________________________ formerly known as etaoin...
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#114321 - 10/24/03 11:06 PM Re: Fame
belMarduk Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/28/00 Posts: 2888	See now, that's why you need a monument. I have no clue who Cato the Elder. Now if he had a monument, I'd go, "ooo, who was he, and why was he special enough to earn a monument?"
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