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A word worth filing away and a cautionary tale of sorts contained within regarding old habits dying hard...
Click on your onelook.com button (as advised by tsuwm)...
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A splendid word Wordwind, But speaking as an aspiring taphonomist, I can't say that I approve of you poets highjacking our word and dragging it through the muck and mire of your un-scientific and murky writings. Some things should be left to science. Don't you folks have enough words already?  
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we should remember that Wordnap may also be trolling for more eleventeenses.
this one could be a winner, Ww; although, as milum suggests, it is jargonish.
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'just my opinion, but you can have azure back if you like.
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Whatsamadda with azure? Like it not?
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I'm confused about this whole thread. What are you talking about. What is Onelook?
EDIT: I found out what Onelook is on another thread. Now I'm just a little confused about the thread. Where is the button we're supposed to press on.
Sorry to seem so dense but this seems to be just whoosing right over me head.
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someone asked for the meaning of a word here.. again. in a hit of fopeless rage, I penned a post saying that with the simple creation of a "button" you (<<generic>) can have OneLook (which indexes 992 online dictionaries (including MWCD, AHD, Cambridge, Wikipedia, Webster's (1828), and a few others) at your fingertip for any of that sort of lookup.
creating a "button" for your toolbar gives you even quicker access to a website than a "bookmark" or a "Favorite".
for a topical example, I clicked my OneLook button and plugged "VSOP" into the lookup box, took the first available "hit" and got this, from the Compact OED:
abbreviation Very Special Old Pale, a kind of brandy
(according to the parallel VSOP thread, that's not quite right)
TMI?? (see Netlingo, via onelook)
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Oh what a tangled web we weave.
[related vsop thread briefly intertwining]
[ blue ]
abbreviation Very Special Old Pale, a kind of brandy
(according to the parallel VSOP thread, that's not quite right)
[ /blue ]
I’ve seen it used ways, ‘special’ and ‘superior’. I suspect it originated as ‘superior’ and then erroneously became ‘special’. Just one man’s wild stab in the dark.
[/related vsop thread briefly intertwining]
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And tsuwm's suggestion just helps to untangle it.
Hi, BelM! I through in the fossil word. Usually I provide a definition whenever introducing an unusual (to me at least) word. But tsuwm's suggestion that we create buttons to quick-retrieve web sites is a good idea.
Anyway, a onelook.com button is a winner!
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Bel, take a look at the posts surrounding this one, Honey: http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=miscellany&Number=141953I may say that I was surprised to learn that the button I ...installed?...takes me to that very thread every time. Oh, why won't my computer learn to do what I want it to do, and not what I tell it to do?! To this day, I sometimes still expect it to Jump me to the (woops) category I picked without me hitting the Jump button, or, if I do remember to hit the Jump button, to know that I didn't really want to go to Animal Safari. [/whine]
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