#209030 - 01/15/13 12:16 AM
Trying yet again
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#209034 - 01/15/13 04:46 AM
Re: Trying yet again
[Re: Jackie]
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Jackie, I can read you post if I click "Quick Quote." I was able to make one new post in Q & A and W & F but was unable to Reply or Edit, so I thought I'd try another new one here,
Here's what I tried to post:
According to the Detroit Free Press, Wayne State University "unveiled its annual list of the top 10 most useful--and underused--words in the English language":
• Buncombe: Rubbish; nonsense; empty or misleading talk.
• Cerulean: The blue of the sky.
• Chelonian: Like a turtle.
• Dragoon: To compel by coercion; to force someone to do something they'd rather not.
• Fantods: Extreme anxiety, distress, nervousness or irritability.
• Mawkish: Excessively sentimental; sappy; hopelessly trite.
• Natter: To talk aimlessly, often at great length; rarely, it means simply to converse.
• Persiflage: Banter; frivolous talk.
• Troglodyte: Literally, a cave-dweller. More frequently a backward, mentally sluggish person.
• Winkle: To pry out or extract something; from the process of removing the snail from an edible periwinkle.
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#209037 - 01/15/13 06:55 AM
Re: Trying yet again
[Re: Tromboniator]
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old hand
Registered: 11/13/11
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I CAN'T read jackie's post by using "quote" - it was the first thing I tried because it has worked in the past.
Edit
but I have been able to edit this one!
Curioser and curioser. (said Alice, wonderingly)
Edited by Rhubarb Commando (01/15/13 06:56 AM)
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#209041 - 01/15/13 11:44 AM
Re: Trying yet again
[Re: Jackie]
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Carpal Tunnel
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We should remember that Jackie has powers here that the rest of us don't; she's a Moderator. There may be some issue which only affects her, or perhaps, as Tromb suggests, there might be a problem with the forum software.
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#209055 - 01/15/13 12:30 PM
Re: Trying yet again
[Re: Jackie]
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Yay!! Back from Mutedom!!
and here I thought perhaps you were staging a Mutiny....
;¬ )
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#209056 - 01/15/13 12:34 PM
Re: Trying yet again
[Re: Buffalo Shrdlu]
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Carpal Tunnel
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YES!
I received your last two posts above, back from "mutedom".
As to the words.
I love "cerulean", and use the word whenever it fits.
Edited by LukeJavan8 (01/15/13 12:36 PM)
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#209057 - 01/15/13 12:38 PM
Re: Trying yet again
[Re: Jackie]
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> Buncombe I've always seen this as Bunkum. Buncombe looks so English... 
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#209058 - 01/15/13 12:39 PM
Re: Trying yet again
[Re: LukeJavan8]
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As to the words.
I love "cerulean", and use the word whenever it fits.
I like cerulean, too, and I think it's why I always want to pronounce "herculean" the wrong way...
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#209059 - 01/15/13 01:03 PM
Re: Trying yet again
[Re: Buffalo Shrdlu]
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....now that you mention it.(Bunkum)
..yes, herculean. I do pronounce it that way too, even knowing
it is not right. Funny how one gets these mental connections
and cannot stave them off.
Edited by LukeJavan8 (01/15/13 01:05 PM)
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#209061 - 01/15/13 01:30 PM
Re: Trying yet again
[Re: LukeJavan8]
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old hand
Registered: 11/13/11
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Loc: Lancaster, UK
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Buncombe does, indeed, sound "English" - but in UK we also write it as "bunkum."
Not a word heard much, these days, more's the pity.
I have occasionally used, "persiflage" - another fine word!
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#209062 - 01/15/13 01:34 PM
Re: Trying yet again
[Re: Jackie]
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So, whose idea is it to spell it buncombe?
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#209063 - 01/15/13 01:36 PM
Re: Trying yet again
[Re: Rhubarb Commando]
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now that you mention 'persiflage' I am going to add it to my
favorite definition of politicians:
"Bloviating blatherskites, with their tarradiddling
codswallop and persiflage, which they dump on us."
Not totally developed but I am working on it.
I welcome input.
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#209064 - 01/15/13 01:38 PM
Re: Trying yet again
[Re: Buffalo Shrdlu]
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So, whose idea is it to spell it buncombe? Reminds me of spelling of the name of a town in the Cotswalds.
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#209065 - 01/15/13 01:42 PM
Re: Trying yet again
[Re: Buffalo Shrdlu]
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As to the words.
I love "cerulean", and use the word whenever it fits.
I like cerulean, too, and I think it's why I always want to pronounce "herculean" the wrong way... your major dictionaries seem to give "the wrong way" as (at a minimum) a secondary pronun. I still have an issue interpreting IPA, but it looks to me like OED gives it as the *only pronun. - at least the accent is on the second sylLAble.
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#209067 - 01/15/13 01:49 PM
Re: Trying yet again
[Re: Jackie]
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Carpal Tunnel
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So, "her-KYOO-lee-an" is acceptable? Hmm, I remember being fairly rounded upon when admitting I thought that was the pronunciation.
Cool.
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#209068 - 01/15/13 03:06 PM
Re: Trying yet again
[Re: Buffalo Shrdlu]
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So, whose idea is it to spell it buncombe?
Probably the folks in Buncombe County, NC, which provided the etymology of bunk.
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#209069 - 01/15/13 03:07 PM
Re: Trying yet again
[Re: Buffalo Shrdlu]
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I like cerulean, too, and I think it's why I always want to pronounce "herculean" the wrong way...
Wait. You pronounce Herculean cerulean?
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#209073 - 01/15/13 06:37 PM
Re: Trying yet again
[Re: zmjezhd]
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I like cerulean, too, and I think it's why I always want to pronounce "herculean" the wrong way...
Wait. You pronounce Herculean cerulean? heh
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#209074 - 01/15/13 06:39 PM
Re: Trying yet again
[Re: zmjezhd]
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So, whose idea is it to spell it buncombe?
Probably the folks in Buncombe County, NC, which provided the etymology of bunk. as in bunk bed? and bunco?
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#209084 - 01/16/13 10:27 AM
Re: Trying yet again
[Re: Buffalo Shrdlu]
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as in bunk bed?
Probably not.
and bunco?
Nope. Bunk as in "nonsense".
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#209086 - 01/16/13 10:57 AM
Re: Trying yet again
[Re: zmjezhd]
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as in bunk bed?
Probably not.
and bunco?
Nope. Bunk as in "nonsense".
Thanks. so... bunk bed? bunco? Where they from? ;¬ )
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#209088 - 01/16/13 12:34 PM
Re: Trying yet again
[Re: Jackie]
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 06/23/08
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Back from mootdom...er...
Anyway--I love you guys! This kind of discussion is what I was hoping for. A discussion of your disappearance? or maybe nothingness???
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#209093 - 01/16/13 04:31 PM
Re: Trying yet again
[Re: LukeJavan8]
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A discussion of ... nothingness???
We could spend hours here with nothing to talk about.
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#209096 - 01/16/13 05:00 PM
Re: herricott & fazool
[Re: Buffalo Shrdlu]
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Carpal Tunnel
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so... bunk bed?
Origin unknown.
bunco? Where they from?
From a card game banco, related to bank
;¬ )
%^)
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#209097 - 01/16/13 05:12 PM
Re: Trying yet again
[Re: Tromboniator]
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A discussion of ... nothingness???
We could spend hours here with nothing to talk about. And often do!
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#209100 - 01/16/13 09:09 PM
Re: Trying yet again
[Re: zmjezhd]
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Carpal Tunnel
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so... bunk bed?
Origin unknown.
bunco? Where they from?
From a card game banco, related to bank
;¬ )
%^) okey dokey! can we extrapolate bunk bed from bunk house? or did that come about vicey versey?
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#209103 - 01/17/13 01:59 AM
Re: Trying yet again
[Re: Jackie]
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#209111 - 01/17/13 08:48 AM
Re: Trying yet again
[Re: zmjezhd]
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Carpal Tunnel
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so... bunk bed?
Origin unknown. Etymology Online claims it's from bunker. Just a step up from "unknown".
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#209113 - 01/17/13 11:21 AM
Re: Trying yet again
[Re: Buffalo Shrdlu]
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can we extrapolate bunk bed from bunk house?
I am not sure, but if I had to guess I'd say the hosue from the beds in it.
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#209114 - 01/17/13 11:25 AM
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Etymology Online claims it's from bunker.
Etymology Online says: "1758, probably a shortened from bunker (q.v.)." That "probably" is one reason I do not care for EO. The guy who cobbled it together from all sorts of sources seems not to like "origin unknown" or "etymology uncertain" and does his best to "solve" these lacunae.
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#209115 - 01/17/13 11:49 AM
Re: Trying yet again
[Re: Jackie]
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so vicey versey on the bunk beds, and bunker has nothing to do with Buncombe.
It's all coming together!
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