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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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yeahbut, the links are more flexible than tsuwmwn was tsuggesting. You can drag and drop from all over the place ~ YCLIU here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/customizelinks.htmedit: and just to follow up on dubdub's comment, they are indeed very much like a subset of Favorites... um, because that's what Links are! You can open up your Favorites dialogue at the left margin of the screen, and place any URL you wish into the folder labelled Links, by dragging and dropping from your desttop or from other folders within Favorites...
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I think all of that is covered in the link Ms. J gave, mav.
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I don't think so, mickey - it only specifies you can drag and drop from the URL adress bar area.
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I think the only thing missing, gaspard, is changing icons, which didn't seem germane to the issue. otherwise, adding links, removing links, rearranging links.. all covered.
with not much bitterness,
-joe (azure) friday
edit: now that I'm forced to think on it, I only told Ww about the rearranging bit in a PM. I didn't think Ms. J could handle that. <G>
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> didn't think Ms. J could handle that
baaaa~yard mayan! <EG>
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Sorry this took so long, but I’m still trying to discover the double or triple pun in TEd’s post. Whatsamadda with azure? Like it not?
Azure may be a good word for the acronym game if you want to make the next one difficult - there are so few z words. My sensitivity to this word arizes from long-ago poetry readings and HS poetry contests. There were too many azures, and many that were heard sounded like, "az-zzoor", as if it were a "foreign" word and its pronunciation was a mystery, or like an exotic bird call. I love the color itself, and I like the way it’s defined better than it. I internally cringe in a similar way when I hear someone summon me by my full name especially with “Mister” as its prefix. But that’s just me.
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TEd's puns are sometimes vaguely(!) opaque. but at the time I read it as something akin to "azure like it" (WS).
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In reply to:
My sensitivity to this word arizes from long-ago poetry readings and HS poetry contests.
I'm not drawn to the word 'azure' either, Owl. But I'm sure that someone could use it in such an original and satisfying way that I'd briefly put down my distaste for it.
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