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Ok, it looks like there won't be anymore suggestions, so here are the choices we've got. Note that the first four/five were used for tsuwm's wwftd. Pick FIVE:

a. hoodoo - http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=49682

b. mysteriuim - http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=miscellany&Number=48194

c. anacampserote - http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=miscellany&Number=50360

d. piepowder - http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=wordplay&Number=48872

e. cornobbled http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=wordplay&Number=48464

f. nudnik http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=55395

g. gobsmacked http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=57174

h. dipsetic http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=miscellany&Number=13970

i. talud http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=wordplay&Number=32756

j. fungible http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=48757

k. hermetic http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=45704

l. demesne http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=44396

m. Golden Ratio http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=37343

n. monosemy http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=17666

o. time http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=35912

p. triboluminescence http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=wordplay&Number=45223

q. pleonasm http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=wordplay&Number=27814

r. irony http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=miscellany&Number=47618

s. rogaine http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=wordplay&Number=5645

t. loimic http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=miscellany&Number=46577

u. ideolect http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=miscellany&Number=37695

v. ursine (or another) http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=animalsafari&Number=3265

w. pantomath http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=44976

x. yaw http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=miscellany&Number=23217

y. bogart http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=eponyms&Number=22489 / http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=46769

z. octothorp http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=36166

@. empath http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=5427

#. mustelid http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=53198

$. nepenthe http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=51160

%. enantiodromic http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=451


EDIT: I've added W'ON's and tsuwm's recent suggestions to fill out the list a little more. Also added the link for gobsmacked. Feel free to change your votes if you like.


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In no particular alphabetical order, I'd suggest:

E cornobbled
G gobsmacked
L demesne
M Golden Ratio
P triboluminescence

Partly for the words, but also for the threads they come from (other than gobsmacked, which I just love).


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so we have no link for gobsmacked? it sure has been used (casually) a bunch. <exit, stage right, pondering a new thread>


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It's been used. Jus ain' never had no parper innerduction.

Search <gobsmack> all fora since forever. Shona used it first but he just used it. There's never been a discussion or at least not within the first few months.


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I see that demesne was an AWAD in March, '94. we may have some other hanging chads here.

other notes:
mysterium was actually introduced in this earlier post:
http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=miscellany&Number=48168

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Ok, I just checked. He's used fungible, hermetic, demesne, pleonasm and ursine.

He used fungible twice, in 94 and 95, so I don't think it would be a problem if we used others that he's already used, especially if it was a while ago. And we could just replace ursine with another animal adjective.


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And we could just replace ursine with another animal adjective.

I don't suppose you would consider ass hole?

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>but it has been used before, spelled as idiolect.

as did we, eventually... sort of.

I cast some edited votes for:
gobsmacked
dipsetic
monosemy
cornobbled
enantiodromic


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My votes are for:

e cornobbled

f. nudnik

j fungible

m Golden Ratio

p triboluminescence


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