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#91602 03/07/03 09:22 PM
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Hi, AnnaS!
I'll ask Mom and Dad when I talk to them Saturday. They'll probably think I'm nuts for wanting to know . . .

Yah, that dictionary is in two large volumes. It made elementary school projects rather challenging at times.


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They'll probably think I'm nuts
[chant e] I will not say it, I will NOT say it...


#91604 03/07/03 11:46 PM
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[laughing out loud - e]

Oh Jackie! You hit the nail between the eyes on that one!

yeah, they already know I'm nuts!


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Yep, you're Mrs. Malaprop all right...


#91606 03/10/03 03:47 AM
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So which dictionaries are these?


Funk & Wagnalls Practical Standard Dictionary of the English Language, 1948.

As I recall, it did not have words like "radioactive" either!

And BTW, Mom and Dad didn't think I was nuts, but I did have a little 'splainin' to do . . .


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it did not have words like "radioactive" either

If so it was a little slow on the uptake. OED has first citaion for radio-activity from 1898. The definition might not be quite what you expect but.


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Greetings:
I have enjoyed reading messages in the various forums, and am submitting my contribution.

Guide Word Phrases
from Webster�s II, New College Dictionary, 2001 (Houghton Mifflin)

ancillary�anesthesia: a rubber mallet in case the drugs don�t work.

burglar�bursary: where it seems a lot of our taxes go.

census�centripetal force: trying to keep track of the kids while going around in circles.

convergent evolution�convulse: reaction to the realization that god didn�t make every little thing just so.

crystal ball�cud: seeing that the future will be the same old thing.

deductible�defense: tax write-off for the bombs and tanks.

ecstatic�editor: one who receives perfect copy on a scoop.

floral�fluctuate: changing the plants in the window box.

gem�tlich�generosity: happily giving everything away.

hoggish�holiday: New Orleanians keeping a fun thing all to themselves.

holier-than-thou�Holy Week: for the ones who don�t approve of fun things.

howling�humanity: the crowd at Starbuck�s (coffee house) at 7:50 a.m.

inferiority complex�inflorescence: coming out of your shell.

intentional�interface: deliberately allowing communication to actually take place.

jailbird�jaunt: got only as far as the road.

kiwi�knobkerrie: a small club to squash birds or fruit.

ladies� man�Lamarckian: like father, like son.

melodramatic�Mendelian: wringing your hands while waiting to find out if yours will be the one in four.

misanthropic�misfortune: being shipwrecked on a desert island, with the all of the ship�s passengers and crew.

mukluk�multiped: shoeing the dogsled team.

nicotinic�nihilism: nothing matters anyway so why not smoke.

outlive�outspend: what the kids are going to do.

personal computer�pervasive: indeed!

perverse�petition: the so-called �Defense of Marriage� act.

plastic�platoon: those green toy soldiers.
preschool�presidential: INDEED!

quag�quantum: It�s just one thing after another.

quintuplet�quoth: wa-wa-wa-wa-wa

Received Pronunciation�reciprocity: I say, you pronounce my wuds the way I like, and I�ll pronounce yoors the way you like. Cheerio.

renewedly�repel: what you keep doing to that blasted fly.

resegregation�resistance: no, we are NOT going back to that.

retroactive�revelation: god meant �celebrate� not �celibate.�

revelatory�revisionism: June 1978, OK, blacks CAN join the Mormon priesthood after all.

sacramental�safe sex: god didn�t mean go forth and overmultiply. . .

sentient�septum: the nose knows.

slipped disk�slow: if you have one, you will be.

slow burn�slush fund: what you do when you find out they have one.

slut�smeary: <oh yuk, but I couldn�t resist>

subjective�subordinate: stop worrying, you only think you�re inferior.

superlunary�suppliant: now you want the stars, too?

takedown�tales: a wrestler�s stories.

tequila�ternary: three strikes and you're out.

Triple Crown�trivia: stats for the last 20 years.

unconquerable�underclothing: the medieval chastity belt.

unintelligent�universality: everyone else �out there.�

variant�vasectomy: using scissors instead of a scalpel.

verdict�vernier: what the scales of justice need sometimes.

wraparound�write: when there�s no more room at the bottom of the page and you start up the side.

xanthene�x-ray tube: <I tried. . . YOU think of something>

yokel�yuck: what the city folk think of the country folk.

zodiacal light�Zr: A faint and hazy cone of light; lustrous, strong, and grayish-white.


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Welcome aboard, Rainbow. Wonderful stuff!

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This was one of my favorite, creative and stimulating threads... I'll take a few moments and see what I can come up with, again. There are more of these pairings in a few different threads... if yer looking.

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Although, personally I agree with most all of your sentiments, some travel to the brink of politicizing... which "dog dibrof" we snuggle up to here... not that anyone here would stoop to be *fucking politically correct (or anything like that...)


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profligate ... programmata

licentious decrees; e.g., There Shall be More Sex in the Streets
(to the melodic strains of Why Don't We Do It in the Road?!)


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gemstone gene-splicing - Living jewlery.

bravado break - Time off for bungee-jumpers.

incognita incontinent - For ladies who just have to go right now.

premonitorily prerequisite - Read the syllabus before you take the class.

ingrain initiation - 'Hell-week' for pledging frat boys.

momento money - A penny found away, on holiday.

I thought I *owed someone some hyphens...


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