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There were (probably still are) both bramble berries and blackberries near where my parents lived. The berries look alike but the brambles aren't quite as tasty as the blackberries and leaves are different, being lobed instead of single. They also have even worse thorns if you can imagine it.
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well WinddniW, you are now perforce obligatorily expected to write the longest palindrupe to be found in Known Space; and it goes without saying that..
-joe (etaereated) friday
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formerly known as etaoin...
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Etaereate truly is a word that should be.
I propose that its pronunciation could be:
eh-TEAR-ee-it
or
uh-TEAR-ee-it
...but I like the first better.
Example sentence:
"Etaereate fruits may be found in abundance on the byways of the rolling hills of New England, the beloved wild raspberry of Robert Frost being a prime example of this kind of bramble fruit."
Question: What is the proper term for fruits that have their seeds on the outside of the exocarp, such as the strawberry?
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etaereate is potentially more worthless than aetataureate (coined as a nonce-word by Michael Chabon).
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Definitions, please, tsuwm.
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From the collision of roots it's gotta be golden age or of the golden age I guess?
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>Definitions, please, tsuwm. I could do that, but in the interests of the struggle against nescience, in all of its rampant forms, please read on. you could add a OneLook button to your toolbar, right up there with the Address and Go buttons. then you could just click OneLook and paste a word into the OneLook search box and you would save yourself (and myself) the all the time it takes to ask (and answer) this kind of request. If you don't know how to do this (it's really simple) I could post the instructions right here. (this is Miscellany, isn't it?!) you can, of course, do this with any site you use so often that even using a bookmark seems bothersome. I have buttons for OneLook, OED, and (wait for it) wwftd on my toolbar. (there, now this is almost an actual word post.) all browsers give you similar customizing features. oh, here's the link for aetataureate http://onelook.com/?w=aetataureate&ls=abut if you just want to skip the whole thing, mav is pretty much there. NB: the Chabon citation is from the amazing The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.
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d'oh, shoulda known it ud be on that dickshoneairy site!
tsuwm, did you give some of us this title as a recommendation at some point/some place/some alternate life? or am I just disrememberificationising?
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But, but...dang it, I like my nescience, and will fight to the death to keep it!
(Do you mean to tell me that there is some way that my computer could be told to add a button for Onelook or whatever? Seriously?? Geez, it sure would be nice to have one for this place. Where would it be--up top along with back, forward, stop, refresh, search, etc., or--I hope not--down at the bottom where there are just icons for, ex., my anti-virus program?) (I can hear you sighing from clear down here, M.)
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