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Well, you can always reach down in that gutter and cite 'dung' as a word not used to describe something that man has any part in creating.
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And, then of course, there appears a sub-class of words that were originally intended to be applied just to animals but have been extended to denote similar behaviour (sometimes but not necessarily in an insulting sense) in humans. For instance graze to describe the act of eating small amounts regularly rather than several large meals. I suppose even words like growl might fit in this category.
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having wings
Please forgive my ignorance but isn't winged, or as it is more often seen, wingèd, also a word used to decribe something having wings?
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isn't winged, or as it is more often seen, wingèd, also a word used to decribe something having wings?Confess that word is so far removed from everyday speech that I never thought of it! Okay, okay, I don't hear the word alate either, but at least I see it in puzzles.
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Confess that word is so far removed from everyday speech that I never thought of it! Okay, okay, I don't hear the word alate either, but at least I see it in puzzles. Was it you who said earlier that you live near the most famous racetrack in the world? (wonderfully Americocentric assumpion by the way, my mind went straight to Ascot, with Aintree a close second ). If you do live in bluegrass country, would you decribe Pegasus as alate or wingèd?
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Well, the media describe the Kentucky Derby as "The most famous two minutes in sports", and of COURSE the city promotes Churchill Downs as the most famous racetrack in the world. So how could I help believing all that hype I've heard and seen all my life??? ing the second time: Max, it occurs to me that you are entirely too intelligent for my good! But I maintain that hearing about "The Winged Horse" once a year on the day of the Pegasus parade (the Thursday before the Derby, which is the first Saturday in May) does NOT qualify as "everyday speech"! I see alate more often than that!
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Well, the media describe the Kentucky Derby as "The most famous two minutes in sports", and of COURSE the city promotes Churchill Downs as the most famous racetrack in the world Confession time. The sole reason for my earlier post was as a smokescreen, obfuscation inspired by the fact that I had never heard, seen, or read the word "alate" before it came up here! Also, I must confess that it takes real effort to say "Kentucky Durby" when my Anglican tongue silently screams "Kentucky Darby"
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I always thought you Anglicans went to confession! And---what in the world is a "Darr-by"?
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I always thought you Anglicans went to confession! And---what in the world is a "Darr-by"? Although it happens that I was christened an Anglican, I was using the word in the adjectival sense introduced to me by tsuwm. Anglican meaning in this case "of or relating to England or the English nation." Darby of course is the British pronunciation of Derby, like "clark," which is the British way of pronouncing "clerk." I wonder what would happened if Lieutenant Clark left his post as a naval clerk to go to the Derby in Darby? "Lieutenant" of course being an automatic giveaway for one's English of origin, as it were.
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<word for "having wings">
and there's always 'angelic'!
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