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Hello! I wanted to tell you about a new website for word lovers called the "Word Browser". It selects randomly from a huge (263,000+) list of English words and sets up links for researching them at all the best reference sites. If you find some gems, you can even save them in a personal favorites list. It's only been active for a few days so I'd love to know what you think. Here's the address: http://www.storylines.com/wbThanks, and best regards, Josh
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Dear Josh: I tried you site, and found it potentially a lot of fun. Only one of my first ten words was a bit doubtful - "monotocous". But the 'toc' root had appeared on AWADtalk a short time ago, and I was able to guess correctly that it is a word postentially useful in an obstetriccal patient history, as a bit more elegant than usual "para one" meaning a woman with one child.
And dear Josh: I must say you are a very welcome addition to ADWADtal!
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Dear Josh: In my second ten words, the only new one was "clerchus". It wasn't in my dictionary, and when I Used the online dictionary provided, it didn't have it either. Instead it gave "Clearachus"
One entry found for Clearchus.
I went into Yahoo Search and found that "clerchus" was an alternative spelling for "Clearchus".
Main Entry: Cle·ar·chus
Pronunciation: klE-'är-k&s
Function: biographical name
5th cent. B.C. Spartan soldier; gov. of Byzantium (408 B.C.); his severe
policies caused the people to surrender to Athens in his absence
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In my third ten words, the only word I did not know was "kyat" which my dictionary says is basic monetary unit of Myanmar.
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Hey, Josh, the thing cheats. My fourth group gave "dawbries" which is apparently just an alternate spelling for "dewberries" !
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Now I'm in a snit. the fifth group contained "cevadillas". No can find definition. A couple mentions of it being in some kind of eyedrops, so perhaps a botanical medication.
PS. After a long hard search, I finally found that "cevadilla" is an alternate spelling of "Sabadilla".
SABADILLA: A broad-spectrum, short residual (2 days in sunlight) botanical insecticide derived from a South American lily. It can be very toxic to humans in purified form.
As a side rant, I laughed heartily at a homeopathic site, which displayed a long "scientific" homeopathic study of treatment of allergy with "extract of honey bee, cevadilla, etc." with; no definitions whatsoever as to what "extract of honeybee" actuall consisted of, nor any details about it. That's homeopathic science at its best! (end rant)
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Nice site.. you might have mentioned it was your site.. and that it was ad free..
a while back people posted 'great sites', that they really were hyping for their personal advancement, they were full of ad... and we had an editor of Oxford Univerisity Press, come and hype the new OED for american english.. but she was up front.. (and said, i am editor of the OAED) and i guess i am really saying this for others who just sometimes read the board, and generaly don't post. we really like being a low ad board!
tsuwm is very low key in hyping his site..and it too is ad free..
who knows, if we all like it, the next thing you know, Max will have added it as a link to his page of AWAD info! welcome aboard Josh!
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Dr. Bill! Guess we know how you spent your morning, eh?  Talking to himself!--Love you Doc! [kiss-e]Welcome aBoard Josh! Nice to have you and your site join us. Hope you enjoy us as much as Dr. Bill enjoyed you!
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Welcome, Josh. I tried your site, and as usual got immediately sidetracked (hi, WW!). I went to OneLook for something I hardly remember now--oh yes, soily--and was scrolling down when I caught sight of this intriguing word: seizin. (No g.) Here's what it said: Seizin (n.) Possession; possession of an estate of froehold. It may be either in deed or in law; the former when there is actual possession, the latter when there is a right to such possession by construction of law. In some of the United States seizin means merely ownership. Made me think of "What's the reason for the seizin", etc.!  So--what the heck is a froehold? If you didn't have enough of a toehold on your froehold, would you be subject to a fit of seizin? I scrolled on down to see if I could LIU in OneLook (couldn't), and got reminded of this other delightful word: Syzygy (n.) The point of an orbit, as of the moon or a planet, at which it is in conjunction or opposition; -- commonly used in the plural.
Syzygy (n.) The coupling together of different feet; as, in Greek verse, an iambic syzygy.
Syzygy (n.) Any one of the segments of an arm of a crinoid composed of two joints so closely united that the line of union is obliterated on the outer, though visible on the inner, side.
Syzygy (n.) The immovable union of two joints of a crinoidal arm. Thanks, Josh, for giving me some smiles today. (What can I say--I'm easily entertained!)
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