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#446 - 04/30/00 12:06 PM Re: Word puzzles
emanuela 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
tututu 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....:-( Tu _________________________ Tu
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#448 - 04/30/00 12:31 PM Re: Word puzzles
tututu 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? Tu _________________________ Tu
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#449 - 04/30/00 05:05 PM Re: Word puzzles
jmh 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
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 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
GZini 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
GZini 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
shanks old hand 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? cheer the sunshine warrior
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#454 - 05/08/00 05:36 AM Re: Word puzzles
Philip Davis 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
shanks old hand 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... cheer the sunshine warrior
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