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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread sexdecennial #189868 03/11/2010 9:41 AM Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague BranShea Carpal Tunnel BranShea Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague Though I congratulate Anu and AWAD heartily on their sixteenth anniversary the relation between 16 and the given words is pretty loose. Also none of the online dictionaries give a life sign for the word sexdecennial, which at first sight I interpreted as 60, while googling the word brings up: about 121 for sexdecennial. One more (122) after I googled it a second time. Is the word "dictionatical"? (to use a tsumesque appraoch). Last edited by BranShea; 03/11/2010 9:46 AM. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: sexdecennial BranShea #189869 03/11/2010 11:15 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 I don't think it's dictionatical if it isn't in any dictionary. It is based on the structure of quindecennial. Not to mention undecennial and duodecennial. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: sexdecennial BranShea #189870 03/11/2010 1:58 PM Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh 60th anniversary would be sexgennial. Jocular words like these (see this list) assume a familiarity with Latin. I still remember fondly my hometown's sesquicentennial in 1973 and then a few years later a professor noting the sesquimillennial of the fall of the (Western) Roman Empire. Ceci n'est pas un seing. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: sexdecennial zmjezhd #189871 03/11/2010 8:02 PM Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague BranShea Carpal Tunnel BranShea Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague Can't say my familiarity with Latin goes very far. I had already found another list but it looked like my worst nightmare and I dared not mention it. It's o v e r w h e l m i n g. Crushing. all of it Someone's real labor of love. 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 Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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