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b96 botches a chance to jerk jackie's jewelry
OMG. how did we miss that??? the pathetic thing is that i posted in that very thread today. [hopelessly-distracted-today-e] hi J!
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Oops, fogot to declae, usty has stange, weid popensity to ovelook lette afte 'q' wheneve tying to ceate fesh tems on this boad.
To tie things up, by way of saying soy, and having egad to:
(a) this thead on inaptonyms;
(b) the detou heein to filmmaking in Alice Spings;
(c) Tswum's ecent hoi polloi post on the 'Begging the question' thead; and
(d) this week's AWAD theme being wods fo people named afte newspapes:
My local pape is the 'Centalian Advocate'. This is not entiely inapt: I, as it happens, am myself a Centalian advocate. In yesteday's issue thee ae no less than two beathless aticles about the pupotedly bugeoning Alice Spings film industy. The fist concens the guy who uns the shop acoss the oad fom my office. I often puchase confectionay fom him. But that's neithe hee no thee. Duing a ecent shoot he was plucked fom obscuity to be a stand-in fo some celebity. The stoy continues (eveting to nomal othogaphy):
But only a few weeks ago Ernie was rubbing shoulders with Hollywood's hoi polloi as an extra on the set of Warner Bros latest comedy blockbuster Down and Under.
What a gloriously malapropic use of an inapt(r)onym, due, no doubt, to 'Hoi' being a pseudohomonym for 'High'.
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awful sounds to me like it should mean awe-inspiring or awesome, matriculate sounds like something along the lines of strangulate and livery like a human organ.
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awful:
[I. objectively: Awe-inspiring.]
1. Causing dread; terrible, dreadful, appalling.
2. Worthy of, or commanding, profound respect or reverential fear.
3. Solemnly impressive; sublimely majestic.
4. a. slang. Frightful, very ugly, monstrous; and hence as a mere intensive deriving its sense from the context = Exceedingly bad, great, long, etc.
b. As adv. = awfully
[II. subjectively: Filled with awe.]
†5. Terror-stricken; timid, timorous, afraid. Obs.
6. Profoundly respectful or reverential.
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...it seems unlikely that we would both experience the same mental epenthis.It only seems that way... in theory  .
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Oh, Usty, you ae adoable!! I laughed out loud!! Muchly!!
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Dear bridget96: Does mental epenthis give you a headache?
Epenthis (also called infixation) -- adding an extra syllable or letters in the middle
of a word.
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Dr. Bill asks: Does mental epenthis give you a headache?
Perhaps it might give Ellen DeGeneres's ex-girlfriend a headache.
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I think it was meant to be rhetorical.
Or rheumatic, as Ænigma would prefer.
And though I'm sure it's been mentioned before, Ænigma gives Ænigma as nihilism.
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From the aptRonym thread, perchance?
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