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wofahulicodoc #186095 07/26/09 07:40 PM
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Or N = S > PIGTAILS

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PIGTAILS

A-->U

PUGILIST

(same root as "pugnacious" and "impugn")

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Speaking of pugnacious -

PUGILIST

P-->O

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48 hours, and I give up.

My word was LITIGOUS

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Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc
48 hours, and I give up.

My word was LITIGOUS



I hate to interrupt your conversation with yourself, but I don't believe that's actually a word. I always thought it was LITIGIOUS. If you can tear yourself away from yourself, please let me know what you think! ;0)

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Yes, I thought it looked funny too, so I checked around and found that that's also what Onelook.com says.

Then I looked for excuses and rationalizations and found that Google has 92,000 ghits for "litigous" (carefully overlooking the fact that it also has 687,000 ghits for -ious) which gives it some dubious validity.

But really I have to admit that I posted it anyway so as to have the opportunity to use the comeback to your question:
"You're right. I'm wrong. So sue me!"

[/trying-to-sneak-unnoticed-out-the-door emoticon]

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Since you have admitted your Guilt I Solemnly sentence you to find a different word.

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Taken from PUGILIST P to N LINGUIST

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(...could have come from LITIGOUS, too, if there was such a word...) ;-)

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Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc
Then I looked for excuses and rationalizations and found that Google has 92,000 ghits for "litigous" (carefully overlooking the fact that it also has 687,000 ghits for -ious) which gives it some dubious validity.

But really I have to admit that I posted it anyway so as to have the opportunity to use the comeback to your question:
"You're right. I'm wrong. So sue me!"

[/trying-to-sneak-unnoticed-out-the-door emoticon]


Well, first off, the reason it has hits is because people can't spell! I got 1,610,000 for "commitee", and it has no dubious validity; it's just a misspelling!

As to your "comeback": ha ha ha At least you're better at being clever than you are at spelling! ;0)

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