In "Bed Bath & Beyond" (sic) yesterday, I noticed a large display of nice bamboo picture frames in different styles distinguished by the pattern of the grain of the "wood" (it's not nice to fool Mother Nature - if you think it's wood but it's grass - it's bamboo). Looking at the sign above the display, the styles were identified as straight, angled, and parkway. Parkway...? Say it isn't so!

I picked up the one that is not straight or angled, and the store-generated sticker says...

Dun duh-duh DUH!

PARKAY

Do I loose my descriptivist badge for having a "(par)Kay, Margarina!"-dancing meltdown over a parquet picture frame?

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"Si! Mantequilla!"
"Parkaaaay..."

Yep, you loose it.

Touché, Annay.

Unloose the badgers of war! Typo nitpickers are fair game!

Someone tyeing up badgers? This I gotta see.

my favorite name for a WorldofWarcraft guild name is "Bloodbath & Beyond". makes me laugh every time I see it.


Butter.

We allus called it Bed Bath & Beyoncé.

I dunno, I kinda like Bed Bath & Breakfast.

Alas, but now we have two eta's

Yours for fewer and fewer unnecessary keystrokes

unloose - indeed intriguing. The OED does not give a satisfactory etymology. Apparently not related to "loose" ?!

'loose' apparently comes from Old Norse.

Isn't 'unloose' just 'loose' with the prefix 'un' added? Though in this case, as in 'flammable' and 'inflammable' the prefix is not a negating one but an intensifying one.

Another possibility I would have thought is Greek λύω (loo-Oh, IPA lʉʊ). Perhaps one comes from Gk the other from Norse?