#62374
03/25/2002 4:27 PM
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Do you still come across new words in your reading?
For me, sometimes they are words that i have more or less understood, but finally looked up for a precise meaning...
i always understood CK's phrase "going pear shaped" , and never questioned it. but i never heard it, or saw it in print till he wrote it..but i didn't ask him exactly what it meant either.. i just let it slide..
I though maybe this week we could each add one or two (or more!) of the new words we have come across in the past week (month? year?)
ecdysis--
and when i looked it up, i found ecdysist! --I bet half the people coming to a Wordapalooza wouldn't mind it we had an ecdysist there!
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philumentis-- when philander came up, i though about philadelphia, and the oricle at delphi, and wondered what that had to do with brotherly love.. but i was all wrong.. its phila + adelphos (which is brotherly..) delphi is not defined, and seems to be just a homonym! and then on the same page found philumentis, and being helio centric, was amazed to find a word just for my lovers! NOT!
but Helen is 'light" (coming from the sam root as Helio, (sun) but is most definately not "sunny" !) various dictionaries have related it to lighthouse, or lamps, bright light.. and someone who loves illumenations, or light-- surely, it means they love me!
i have some others.. do you have any?
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#62375
03/25/2002 4:46 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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I looked up ecdysis - it said especially of snakes and caterpillars. Hmmm!
If, however, it were applicable to your mooted gathering (is that tautology?) of wordaholics I bet they wouldn't be too happy to see anything culiciform.
Found culiciform in the educational text on an exhibit in a small town museum last month.
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#62376
03/25/2002 5:02 PM
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yes but an ecdysist is more commonly called a strip tease!
ecdysis is a process, an ecdysist is practisioner!
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#62377
03/25/2002 8:31 PM
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yes but an ecdysist is more commonly called a strip tease!
Stripping it down to the bare essentials - I've always seen that word rendered as "ecdysiast", meaning stripper, or more eloquently strip-tease artist
Is there a difference between suffix -ist and -iast?
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#62378
03/25/2002 11:46 PM
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AHD defines ecdysis as " The shedding of an outer integument or layer of skin, as by insects, crustaceans, and snakes; molting." Then follows with ecdysiast as " A striptease artist. From ecdysis" Is there a difference between suffix -ist and -iast?Now, if we could just find an ecdysiast and ask them! I wonder if one is feminine and one is masculine? In that case, send the masculine one to Wordapalooza! Right ladies?! 
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#62379
03/26/2002 1:06 AM
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[brushing up on my act -e]
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#62380
03/26/2002 1:12 AM
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[brushing up on my act -e]
Sorry Keiva. WE WANT GEOFF!
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#62381
03/26/2002 1:13 AM
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[brushing up on my act -e]Must ........ resist ........ temptation. 
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#62382
03/26/2002 1:46 AM
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WE WANT GEOFF!
I thought all you ladies wanted Bingley. Y'all are insatiable.
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#62383
03/26/2002 1:51 AM
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thought all you ladies wanted Bingley.
Him too!
Y'all are insatiable.
You just figured that out??????
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#62384
03/26/2002 11:45 AM
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#62385
03/26/2002 1:02 PM
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Must......resist.......temptation
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#62386
03/26/2002 2:43 PM
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Well, I suppose if the definiton of lady involves accepting second best [all due modesty-e].
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#62387
03/26/2002 3:32 PM
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Apparently everyone here knows this word except me. I did a Search on it, and it's been in half a dozen posts. I read it in that wayzgoose site while I was catching my beloved Aunt up a little bit on what's happening on here. He looked it up, and said chorean refers to dance (which I did figure), and that terpsi means fond of, or something like that. I thought he could do with a smile, so I told him I am terpsimaverick!
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#62388
03/26/2002 3:37 PM
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Dear Jackie: If you "muse" it will come to you.
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#62389
03/26/2002 4:55 PM
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Terpsichore, as Dr. Bill hinted, is the Greek muse of dance and choral music. It was my screen name in other cyber-elsewheres out there until here came I, linguistic superiors encountered, and to humble down a bit resolved. BTW, loved the wayzgoose site!
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#62390
03/26/2002 5:05 PM
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chorea show up too, as a medical term, for Huntington's chorea, (a genetic disease,that effects the central nervous system, and the disease that killed Woody Guthry) and non huntington's chorea, or St Vitus Dance, a bacterial infection of the nervous system, that is rather uncommon today. (it responds to anti biotics)
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#62391
03/26/2002 5:31 PM
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There's also a chorea among the symptoms of acute rheumatic fever, another disease happily there's another thread - or is it another YART?) not seen very much today. But "choreiform movements" do occur in a variety of nervous system diseases...
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#62392
03/26/2002 5:32 PM
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Here is URL with a good bit of information about Greek mythology, including the Nine Muses: http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0881991.html
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#62393
03/26/2002 8:07 PM
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Terpsichore got a toehold on Massachusetts in the early 1600's, but it didn't last. Thomas Morton set up a Maypole at 'MerryMount' and introduced Indian damsels to liquor, dancing, and worse. But Gov. Bradford sent Myles Standish to compel him to return to England. So there was no more morris dancing in Massachusetts for many a year. http://members.aol.com/srasmus/oldentext/merrymount.html
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