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#209588 - 02/16/13 12:51 AM Re: Anu's silent letter trick [Re: jenny jenny]
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with Anu Garg wraith
PRONUNCIATION:
(rayth)
MEANING:
noun:
1. A ghost.
2. An apparition of a person supposed to appear just before that person's death.
3. An insubstantial copy of something: shadow.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Scottish. Earliest documented use: 1513.
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WAITH : a patient ghost.
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#209594 - 02/16/13 05:22 PM 
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I'm immortal until proven otherwise
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#209598 - 02/16/13 07:50 PM
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Nary a BRAITHleft in him,so we must bury him._________________________
----please, draw me a sheep----
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#209599 - 02/16/13 09:10 PM
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Loc: Worcester, MA
WRADITH - a small, round, sharp-tasting garden root vegetable, about an inch in diameter, red on the outside and white in the thenter.
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#209613 - 02/18/13 01:21 PM
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PRONUNCIATION: (SPOO-nuh-riz-em)
MEANING: noun: The transposition of (usually) the initial sounds of words producing a humorous result. For example:
"It is now kisstomary to cuss the bride." (Spooner while officiating at a wedding)
"Is the bean dizzy?" (Spooner questioning the secretary of his dean)
ETYMOLOGY: After William Archibald Spooner (1844-1930), clergyman and educator, who was prone to this. Earliest documented use: 1900.
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SPOOKERISM: When a spooner-prone spook says "phoo" instead of "boo" and then wonders why no one is afraid.
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#209614 - 02/18/13 01:41 PM
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Edited by LukeJavan8 (02/18/13 01:41 PM)_________________________
----please, draw me a sheep----
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#209615 - 02/18/13 02:37 PM
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Loc: Lancaster, UK
I'm immortal until proven otherwise
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#209617 - 02/18/13 03:24 PM
Carpal Tunnel
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Posts: 3772
Loc: Worcester, MA
SPOONERISM --> SNOOPERISM - surveillance gone wild !
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#209625 - 02/19/13 03:27 AM
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#209633 - 02/19/13 10:25 AM
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Loc: Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi
with Anu Garg malapropism
PRONUNCIATION:(MAL-uh-prop-iz-ehm)
MEANING:
noun: The humorous misuse of a word by confusing it with a similar-sounding word.
For example, "pineapple of perfection" for "pinnacle of perfection".
ETYMOLOGY: After Mrs. Malaprop, a character in Richard Sheridan's play, The Rivals (1775), who confused words in this manner. Earliest documented use: 1830.
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MALAPTOPISM: a laptop manufactured by International Sewing Machine that belongs to your Ma.
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