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#446 - 04/30/00 12:06 PM Re: Word puzzles
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enthusiast
Registered: 03/16/00
Posts: 315
Loc: Italy - Perugia is a town with... tremendous?
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#447 - 04/30/00 12:28 PM Re: Word puzzles
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stranger
Registered: 04/03/00
Posts: 23
Loc: Bellingham, WA USA My main spell checker accepted nefandous but infandous still escapes both mine and the AWAD spell check....
Where did you look...or are you "pulling my fibula" bone....
Oh I thought the fibula was one....a bone I mean....
There may be at least five words which end in dous....:-(
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#448 - 04/30/00 12:31 PM Re: Word puzzles
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stranger
Registered: 04/03/00
Posts: 23
Loc: Bellingham, WA USA Yes! Tremendous.....
Can you help me...Can you find nefandous and infandous anywhere? Or is tsuwm "something" with which I shouldn't try to be in league?
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#449 - 04/30/00 05:05 PM Re: Word puzzles
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Pooh-Bah
Registered: 03/22/00
Posts: 1981 Is stupendous a word?
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#450 - 04/30/00 05:36 PM Re: Word puzzles
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Carpal Tunnel
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Posts: 10464
Loc: this too shall pass okay, I was sort of pulling your leg, tutututu (gotta do something about that stststutter ;). The four *common* English words ending in -dous are stupendous, tremendous, hazardous and horrendous. There a whole bunch of abstruse words ending in -dous, but infandous and nefandous are a couple of old words which deserved a better fate -- they are considered to be obsolete.
Both of these can be found in *my wwftd dictionary, among other places online. Here's the place to go online to start any word search:
http://www.onelook.com/
http://members.aol.com/tsuwm/
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#451 - 05/05/00 04:24 PM Re: Word puzzles
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stranger
Registered: 05/05/00
Posts: 19
Loc: Washington, DC, USA I believe that the longest word that can be correctly typed with only the left hand is stewardesses, no?
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#452 - 05/05/00 04:33 PM Re: Word puzzles
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stranger
Registered: 05/05/00
Posts: 19
Loc: Washington, DC, USA Oh, and I just remembered that one of the words with all of the vowels in order is facetious . Actually, turn that into an adverb, and you have six in a row, in order.
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#453 - 05/08/00 05:09 AM Re: Word puzzles
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old hand
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Registered: 03/16/00
Posts: 1004
Loc: London, UK The other being abstemious. Which, I presume, can be similarly converted into an adverb. Any thoughts on whether y and w should be considered nouns or consonants?
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#454 - 05/08/00 05:36 AM Re: Word puzzles
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journeyman
Registered: 04/03/00
Posts: 81 "Any thoughts on whether y and w should be considered nouns or consonants?"
Why.
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#455 - 05/08/00 06:02 AM Re: Word puzzles
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old hand
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Registered: 03/16/00
Posts: 1004
Loc: London, UK Aaaarghh! (But I suppose if puns were good enough for Shakespeare...)
Thanks for that reply. I suppose we are all trying to build up to 'member' status, though I am a bit more slack and dilatory than most...
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