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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread AWAD archives Mar 99 #109663 08/09/2003 3:35 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 http://wordsmith.org/awad/archives/0399 ailurophile pyromania acarophobia - “You might as well sit on the seat, the crabs in here jump fifteen feet.” geomancy misogamy agrostology kleptocracy piacular picante pizzicato piddle = poodles piddle puddles pianissimo pissoir pilose algolagnia misoneism phillumenist megalopolis georgic pyrophoric cosmopolis interrobang apostrophe circumflex tilde virgule ampersand diaeresis phonetic abbreviation monosyllabic Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: AWAD archives Mar 99 #109664 08/09/2003 8:21 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 diaeresis We had pretty much decided that this word is the proper name for what we might call the lazy colon, the two dots over a letter, whether its function is to indicate the change of a vowel sound due to influence by a following vowel, the process known as umlaut (cf. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umlaut), or to indicate that the vowel so marked is pronounced independently of the preceding vowel, as in naïve. But this site (http://www.csi.uottawa.ca/~kbarker/ling-devices.html) claims that diaeresis is the name of the latter process. A) Whoda thunk? and 2) Now what do we call the lazy colon? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: AWAD archives Mar 99 #109665 08/09/2003 10:30 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Constipated? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: AWAD archives Mar 99 #109666 08/09/2003 11:36 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 >Now what do we call the lazy colon? d'oh.. umlaut? (or is this a trick question..) -ron umluaf Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: AWAD archives Mar 99 #109667 08/10/2003 1:04 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Dear Faldage. Sorry about retarded peristalsis quip. I think it an error to say the umlaut is a form of dieresis. In German script, that is handwriting, a small "e" is two vertical marks. As far as I know, it was just a sort of time saving convenience to put a miniature "e" over a vowel, instead of using two normal sized vowels. I never thought to ask the prof why Goethe didn't use an umlaut in his name. Now that I think of ir neither did Hitler's propagandist Goebbels. But his Luftwaffe guy, Gõring, did. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter re: ailurophile #109668 08/10/2003 1:24 AM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... In reply to: a cat fancier : a lover of cats ...looks pretty damn close to ayleur. Maybe an ayleurophile could be a lover of cats and a lover of AWAD. Don't worry about Jackie. She never looks down here. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter 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. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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