#93453
01/27/2003 4:35 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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Shouldn't that be pronounced AH-puh-coap?
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#93454
01/27/2003 4:38 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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I reckon on a fairly rapid skim through that there were about 20 that were completely new to me. Strangely these were almost all in the first half of the alphabet. A good list.
Today's Oxford word for the day was new to me:
bovrilize
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an old-fashioned verb meaning 'to condense something to its essence'. This example is from a 1911 edition of the Daily News: 'Here is one of those bovrilized announcements: Wanted, Sit. as Comp. by Eng. Lady, 35; good refs, would trav.' It's taken, of course, from Bovril, the trademark name for a concentrated essence of beef which can be diluted with hot water to make a drink.
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#93455
01/27/2003 4:58 PM
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A pot (French) ka pee = a thundermug full of urine My mother came from Belfast, ME, and
used a number of French words.
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#93456
01/27/2003 5:20 PM
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>Shouldn't that be pronounced AH-puh-coap?
apocope -- n. [uh-PAH-coh-pee] dropping the final sound or syllable of a word
-ron o.
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#93457
01/27/2003 5:22 PM
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#93458
01/27/2003 9:03 PM
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Book 'im, ron o! 
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#93459
01/28/2003 1:18 AM
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>Shouldn't that be pronounced AH-puh-coap?
apocope -- n. [uh-PAH-coh-pee] dropping the final sound or syllable of a word
Good one, Faldage! And thanks for the def., tsuwm, 'cause otherwise I wouldn't have caught the humor.
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