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my initial post was a serious question
Sorry, sometimes the channels 'round 'bout these environs be noisy ones, and humor ensues. I liked diurnal moon, which Hydra reflected on above.
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diurnal moon does register 82 ghits (as opposed to 182,000 for daymoon); I haven't sorted through the usages..
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And, nightsun gets 170K ghits, too. Now, what does that mean? Wikipedia confuses matters by redirecting from daymoon to Sun. French lune de jour and German Tagesmond get 1770 and 357 ghits respectively.
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dahil, with all due respect, the reverse dictionary is mostly useless (and I had glanced at it, just to remind myself of that fact).
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heh.
Hit #20.
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george psalmanazar Along with Isidorus Hispalensis, Johannes Goropius Becanus, Jean-Pierre Brisset, Nikolaj Y Marr, and Devaneya Pavanar, a glorious member and leading founder within and withof the pantheon of psychoceramic, pseudoscientific linguisticians.
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tsuwm: if the answer to MY question is "moon", that is also the answer to yours. The moon is the moon, whether seen by night or day; and it is only because you wanted a specific word for the moon when seen by day that I asked if there were one for the moon seen at night.
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tsu you are largely correct about that although once in a while I do strike paydirt. Trouble is, there aren't enough troublemakers like you and me so I invite anyone present who feels as we do to go to OneLook's Contact Us and express your opinion to those who matter
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tswum: if the answer to MY question is "moon", that is also the answer to yours. The moon is the moon, whether seen by night or day; and it is only because you wanted a specific word for the moon when seen by day that I asked if there were one for the moon seen at night.
as I patiently explained in that same post, Hydra, it's not something I especially "want," but that someone wrote to me claiming there was such a word. knowing as we do that there seems to be a word for "almost everything" (Richard Lederer, on There's a Word for It!), I had no reason to doubt this claim and simply put the question. I suggested 'diurnal moon' to my interlocutor (although it's not one word) and her response to that was, "Actually, maybe that’s it, because I remember that it was a word that described the moon such as “gibbous.”" [style rule guidance aside: just there is an instance of quoting outside the period that looks really odd, to me.] - joe (logoleptic) friday
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