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TEd, it seems your touch was too subtle.
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it seems your touch was too subtleI wasn't quite sure if he was playing on both ends of the word. It seems he was. Very nice, TEd Rem. 
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Something about the word "striated" strikes me (or stripes me, maybe) as a pretty word... but as for my favorite word, that would have to be "crwth". Any of you have distinct favorite words?
Some people say camping is boring. I say it's in tents.
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I've always liked minimum just for the hemiola of typing it. Hemiola, there's another nice word.
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A Native American went to his psychiatrist: "Doctor, Doctor--I think I'm a wigwam! No, a teepee. No! A wigwam!" The doctor replied: "You don't have a real problem; you're just too tense." *********************************************************** Hemiola, yes! (Hi, eta!  ) Where did it come from, though? Hemi means half, right? I just tried looking up -ola and found that it doesn't mean anything; then I tried iola, and it's just a name. Struck out with ola (leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper) and Ola ('nother name), too.
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hi Jackie! this is what I found at M-W via OneLook: Main Entry: hemi·o·la
Pronunciation: "he-mE-'O-l&
Function: noun
Etymology: Late Latin hemiolia, from Greek hEmiolia ratio of one and a half to one, from hEmi- + holos whole -- more at SAFE
: a musical rhythmic alteration in which six equal notes may be heard as two groups of three or three groups of twoso you got the half thing right. or is that half right?
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and what does all that have to do with the word minimum??
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Try typing minimum a couple of times. I think the idea is you're supposed to hear a hemiola in your keyboard.
-don't shoot me, I'm just the translator
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blogNot the "most beautiful", but the most "sought out". Extract from: 'Blog' Most Popular Word on Web DictionaryChicago Tribune, December 1, 2004 "Blog" began appearing in newspapers and magazines in 1999, according to the publisher's records. Merriam's lexicographers suspect the prominence blogs attained during the presidential campaigns and conventions this year sent people scrambling for a definition. "It does sometimes happen that words in the headlines so grab people's attention that they become a most-frequently-looked-up word," said John M. Morse, president and publisher of Springfield-based Merriam-Webster. Right behind "blog" in popularity on Merriam's year-end list were "incumbent" and "electoral." Other words on the list touched on the war in Iraq, storms, bicycle races and even the emergence of insects on a 17-year cycle: In fourth place was "insurgent," followed by "hurricane," "cicada" and "peloton". The eighth and ninth spots were taken by "partisan" and "sovereignty." For full story, go to: http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/sns-ap-dictionary-top-words,1,2657596.story?coll=chi-news-hed"peloton" ??? [7th position] Aha! Not an insect invasion, but the Tour de France. Main Entry: peloton Definition: in cycling, a densely packed group of riders who stay together for mutual advantage Etymology: French `ball, heap' http://www.capture-the-peloton.com/
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A ratio of 1 1/2 to 1 is the same as a ratio of 3 to 2 (seasonally known as "ring ding-a-ling") which really is the same as a ratio of 6 to 4.
The ratio of 3 to 4 (otherwise known as "eat your g*d damn spinach") is also called a hemiola as musicians like to chop up the world into pieces... but *claim they aren't.
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