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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 3 of 3 1 2 3 Re: tiddledies definitions tsuwm #167619 04/17/07 04:42 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,004 London, UK shanks old hand shanks old hand Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,004 London, UK I'm going for 'm'. Sorry for the delay. It just seems so improbably it has to be - as for droppings and other such. Ha! I laugh them to scorn! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: tiddledies definitions hogmaster #167634 04/17/07 11:21 PM Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 72 Land where ne'er-do-wells rule... Curuinor journeyman Curuinor journeyman Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 72 Land where ne'er-do-wells rule... The art of dictionary-making mostly stemmed from its great-grandaddy, so what I said should apply to most dictionaries. Of course, the possibility that it is one of the ones I suggested as not sounding like the OED has suddenly been bolstered. I exist! I am a pedant! I have a foreboding signature! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: tiddledies definitions Curuinor #167647 04/18/07 12:49 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,773 Sparteye Pooh-Bah Sparteye Pooh-Bah Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,773 I like D, too. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: tiddledies definitions Curuinor #167651 04/18/07 01:56 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Originally Posted By: Curuinor The art of dictionary-making mostly stemmed from its great-grandaddy, so what I said should apply to most dictionaries. ... Are you calling the OED the great-grandaddy of lexicography? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: tiddledies definitions AnnaStrophic #167652 04/18/07 02:10 PM Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 72 Land where ne'er-do-wells rule... Curuinor journeyman Curuinor journeyman Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 72 Land where ne'er-do-wells rule... Most lexicographers grew up revering the OED as an authoritative source on most words. Hence, it is the great-grandaddy. It itself, of course, is a construct of lexicography, but it fathered more lexicography. I exist! I am a pedant! I have a foreboding signature! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: tiddledies definitions Sparteye #167660 04/18/07 03:41 PM Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 110 H hogmaster OP member OP hogmaster member H Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 110 Originally Posted By: Sparteye I like D, too. Thanks, Sparteye; I think we finished that round off in record time. The correct answer, per Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary (W3), is m); kudos to tsuwm for running away with a win, breaking a long skein of abysmal efforts on his part (and in spite of everything that the uber-analysts had to say). summary (with details) forthcoming... the hogmaster™ Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: tiddledies definitions Curuinor #167662 04/18/07 03:42 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky an authoritative source on most words. Acc'g. to that criterion, then, I reckon tsuwm is our great-grandaddy. And zmjezhd is our great-uncle... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: tiddledies definitions hogmaster #167665 04/18/07 05:36 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass Originally Posted By: hogmaster Originally Posted By: Sparteye I like D, too. Thanks, Sparteye; I think we finished that round off in record time. and just in time for me to use tiddledies as part of the ongoing wwftd weekly theme: words you can't find in the OED! -joe (Antaean) friday Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: tiddledies definitions tsuwm #167699 04/20/07 05:12 AM Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 72 Land where ne'er-do-wells rule... Curuinor journeyman Curuinor journeyman Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 72 Land where ne'er-do-wells rule... And I can find a source from Time's archives from 1953(look at the date) - http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,806664-3,00.html Hence, long before the 2nd edition came out. I say that the OED did a shoddy job of this one. Last edited by Curuinor; 04/20/07 05:12 AM. I exist! I am a pedant! I have a foreboding signature! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: tiddledies definitions Curuinor #167700 04/20/07 05:24 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass Originally Posted By: Curuinor And I can find a source from Time's archives from 1953(look at the date) - http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,806664-3,00.html Hence, long before the 2nd edition came out. I say that the OED did a shoddy job of this one. well, that's a reference to one of the citations I linked to above, and stems from a series of letters written from 1916-1935. but this doesn't seem germane to anything, as the word *isn't in OED at all*. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 3 of 3 1 2 3 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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