#2732 - 05/23/00 09:59 AM
Re: Verbal decapitation
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Carpal Tunnel
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#2733 - 05/23/00 02:44 PM
Re: Verbal decapitation
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Loc: Auckland, New Zealand
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bounce, discard, decrease, compose... do I have the idea?
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#2735 - 05/24/00 09:43 AM
Re: Verbal decapitation
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addict
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That gives me an idea. What is the longest word in the English language that can be continuously decapitated to form a new word? The final word must be at most two letters long.
This doesn't do it but it'll give you an idea of what I mean: Clever, lever, ever.
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#2737 - 05/26/00 08:13 AM
Re: Quakers
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Yesterday’s citation referring to Quakers is pretty heavy and stern stuff from Thomas Paine. Here are some lighter glimpses of Quakers, who are known for their "quiet’ meetings:
- Two Quakers come doorknocking and when the front door is opened, they don’t say anything.
- "I am a Quaker; in case of emergency, please be quiet." [badge popular in Quaker circles]
Cheers from a ‘quakerly’ paulb.
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#2739 - 05/26/00 10:53 PM
Re: Verbal decapitation
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#2740 - 05/27/00 06:07 PM
Re: Verbal decapitation
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Pooh-Bah
Registered: 03/22/00
Posts: 1981
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Actually, taking off the 'ing, Smash works well...
smash, mash, ash, sh...
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#2741 - 05/28/00 11:51 AM
Re: Verbal decapitation
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> Actually, taking off the 'ing, Smash works well...
smash, mash, ash, sh...
Top marks jmh! I couldn't think of any and I'm the one who posted the challenge!
A close alternative would be 'Trash', I suppose, now you mention it.
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#2742 - 05/28/00 09:15 PM
Re: Verbal decapitation
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newbie
Registered: 05/25/00
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Loc: Newcastle, Australia.
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umm, nice challenge
tricky getting more than 5
globe (obe = subdivision of phylus or clan)
U-boat
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#2744 - 06/27/00 04:39 AM
Re: Verbal decapitation
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It's not a decapitation really, but if you just remove one letter at a time:
startling, starling, staring, string, sting, sing, sin, in, I
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#2745 - 06/29/00 04:52 AM
Re: Verbal decapitation
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..and two days later I have come up with a six letter decapitation:
ASTRAY
OK it's not the commonest spelling of 'aye' but it's in my dictionary.
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#2746 - 06/30/00 01:01 AM
Re: Verbal decapitation
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#2747 - 07/03/00 01:00 AM
Re: Verbal decapitation
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Carpal Tunnel
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I don't think anyone will beat Bridget's score - core - ore - re.
Bingley
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Bingley
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#2748 - 12/26/00 11:32 PM
Re: Verbal decapitation
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member
Registered: 12/16/00
Posts: 130
Loc: Virginia
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Back to topic...
Anyone remember this 80s song?
Take the L out of Lover/
And it's Oooo-over
Of course my waggish punk rock friends and I had to change it to:
Take the S out of Slaughter/
And its Laaa-aughter!
Well, we liked it!
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#2749 - 01/03/01 08:28 AM
Politically incorrect 'joke'
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old hand
Registered: 03/16/00
Posts: 1004
Loc: London, UK
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Doug Reminds of the hackneyed old one: manslaughter is an awful thing, but woman's laughter is worse. OK, OK, I'm sorry. But I couldn't resist it...[embarrassed] 
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#2751 - 01/04/01 09:22 AM
Re: Verbal decapitation
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enthusiast
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LAUNDERETTE MEETING LEADS TO BIZARRE DRUG-CRAZED SEX ROMP
splashes, plashes, lashes, ashes, she's, he's, E's
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#2752 - 03/17/01 03:06 PM
Re: Verbal decapitation
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Pooh-Bah
Registered: 03/14/01
Posts: 2379
Loc: New York City
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Are return trips-to foreign parts permitted? If, then (using standard transliterations):
Radar, Adar (Hebrew), dar (Aramaic), ar, r
speaking of which: trips, rips, ips, ps, s
Have I broken all the rules?
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#2753 - 04/27/01 10:13 AM
Re: Verbal decapitation
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stranger
Registered: 04/27/01
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Loc: North Yorkshire, UK
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smile, spear, plate, strait, blast, flap, craving
It occured to me, jmh, that removing the "ing" could be described as something akin to hemicorporectomy...Except we don't do that in the UK...
Sara x
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#2754 - 04/27/01 08:11 PM
Re: Verbal decapitation
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Carpal Tunnel
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Dear sara: I am not sure what a "hemicorporectomy" would entail.I have assisted at appendectomies, cholecystectomies, etc., but never a hemicoporectomy.
And removing "ing" might be "docking" as in making a tale (sic) short, but would it yield a new word?
Incidentally jmh has not been with us for almost a month. We will be glad when she rejoins us.
We have so few members from the UK, you are extra welcome on that account. Please pity our curiosity and give us some data in your Profile.I hope you have forgiven my unthinking rudeness in the grog call post.
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#2755 - 08/16/01 10:04 PM
Re: Verbal decapitation
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Carpal Tunnel
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prelate
relate
elate
late
ate ... (and, if allowed to cut from the foot instead of the head)
at
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#2757 - 08/17/01 02:37 PM
Re: Verbal decapitation
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Carpal Tunnel
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great one, Keiva! and you can pluralise the first word for an additional point, too, he added pontifically.
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#2759 - 08/18/01 05:52 PM
Re: Verbal decapitation
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Carpal Tunnel
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Verbal decapitation: instead of a makeshift term like "beheading", why not use the technical term: "APHAERESIS".
I decapitulate! Off with 'is 'ead!
However, since wwh notes that the word is from the Greek apo (“away”) + hairein, I trust he was merely referring to my need for Rogaine.
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#2761 - 08/19/01 03:09 PM
Re: Verbal decapitation
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Carpal Tunnel
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"Greeks? we don' need no steenkin Greeks...!"
Surely you wouldn't disrespect our dear Helen of Troy?
Gentlemen, let's defend her honor and give this heel the Hectoring he deserves!
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#2762 - 08/19/01 03:21 PM
Re: Verbal decapitation
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Carpal Tunnel
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"Greeks? we don' need no steenkin Greeks...!"
Let us now praise all learned men, many of whom were Hellenes and their descendants or admirers.. Let us require maverick to eat a krater full of Welsh rabbit made with feta cheese, and wash it down with two gallons of retsina. A mild sentence for defaming a noble race.
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#2763 - 08/19/01 04:42 PM
Re: Verbal decapitation
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Carpal Tunnel
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Let us require maverick to .. wash it down with two gallons of retsina"
Wish I could see how he looks after that resina takes effect.
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#2764 - 08/19/01 06:25 PM
Re: Verbal decapitation
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Carpal Tunnel
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Actually, a racial slur is not typical maverick. I wonder if archie is using his system, trying to make trouble for maverick.
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#2765 - 08/19/01 06:39 PM
Re: Verbal decapitation
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Carpal Tunnel
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From beheaded to decapitated to arhaeresis.
From Anglo-Saxon to Latin to Greek.
Ain't English wonderful? You can say the same thing so many ways, and be as clear or as obscure as you like!
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#2766 - 08/20/01 07:20 AM
Re: Verbal decapitation
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Carpal Tunnel
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yeahbut. archie doesn't know how to do the  sign I used, Dr Bill. My point was the linguistic one made now by Keiva. though of all the wines in all the world (and I do my share in sampling their bounty) I would have to say that retsina's taste is fearfully reminiscent of the smell of the foul loo cleaning agent used in school lavatories in my youth, so you can stick that where the sun shines not!
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#2768 - 08/20/01 09:24 AM
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Carpal Tunnel
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All linguaphiles take as gospel " The Greeks had a word for it." And let me remind you, mav, you didn't say "Greek" meaning the language, you said "Greeks" meaning the people.
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#2770 - 08/20/01 03:53 PM
Re: Verbal decapitation
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Carpal Tunnel
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Dear mav: your mama should have warned you about getting boiled in Greece.
And "gits bearing griefs" is a form of cacemphaton.
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#2771 - 08/25/01 12:07 PM
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#2772 - 08/25/01 05:06 PM
Re: Verbal decapitation
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Carpal Tunnel
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What in hell is a race in the crazy mixed-up world? But "racial slurs" are frequently alleged when "ethnic" might be more appropriate.
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#2773 - 08/27/01 10:16 AM
Re: In a futile attempt
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#2774 - 08/27/01 11:17 AM
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#2775 - 08/27/01 11:23 AM
Re: Yet more futile attempts
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#2776 - 08/27/01 08:15 PM
Re: Yet more futile attempts
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Carpal Tunnel
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Thick
hick
ick (it's in my dictionary)
prick (not what you first think of)
rick
ick again.
trick etc.
flick etc.
brick etc. Decapitate the perpetrator of any more aphaeresis! (just an excuse to use the word)
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#2779 - 05/12/02 10:10 AM
Re: decapitation recapitulation
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Sweet Helen, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. See the post in this thread of Sunday Aug 19, 2001 at 16:42:42.
>>Edit: sorry: Thu Aug 16 22:04:21 2001
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#2780 - 05/12/02 11:47 AM
Re: decapitation recapitulation
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Carpal Tunnel
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Dear AR: I went back and looked, and did not see any imitation sufficient to warrant perhaps wounding of troy's feelings.
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#2781 - 05/12/02 12:32 PM
Re: decapitation recapitulation
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enthusiast
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dr. bill, if you look back, I think you'll find that helen's post is rather flatteringly duplicative of an earlier post in this thread, at http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=beheadingwords&Number=37230my apologies to you, dr. bill, for mis-noting its dateAnd surely my post is no more woundingly-phrased to helen than the many previous notations of YART seen on this board.
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#2782 - 05/12/02 01:47 PM
Re: decapitation recapitulation
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Carpal Tunnel
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yes, he is of course right, dr bill.. but that's what he is a master at.. always being right, and aphonic (ie voiceless,(but not wordless,)) rants-- (to talk or say, in a loud extravagant way, declaim violently, to rave-- from old german word, who meaning was to affront,) is a rather an appropriate handle in some ways, don't you think?
as self proclaimed loud, extravagant, violent declaimer! (i merely comment, on the word the poster himself, has chosen to define himself)
and just at bad money drive out good in an economic system, bad attitudes drive out good ones.. and i admit to being angry and annoyed at cloying sweet remarks, when i percieve the rotting, vile decay behind them.
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#2783 - 05/12/02 02:58 PM
Re: capitation cogitation
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enthusiast
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Helen, might your last be a bit excessive? Plenty of people have YARTed; plenty of times others have called them on it; and neither is any big deal. And I certainly wouldn't think you'd object to my phrasing being "sweet remarks" rather than sourpuss ones!
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#2784 - 05/12/02 03:37 PM
Re: capitation cogitation
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Carpal Tunnel
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Dear of troy: You tell him, I stutter.
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#2786 - 05/14/02 10:27 AM
Re: ignoricons
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ignoricon -- in the inselpeterean sense
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