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>Sure... it's, ah... what was the question again?
I'm sure that my children could identify with that one!
My favourite is "lost the plot" - another familiar refrain.
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We might as well include biodiversity here, as an example of a word freshly created for a disappearing entity
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Just got these in from Word Flex. The first is certainly
apt for me! (BTW I had not heard of any of these before.)
MOUSE POTATO:
The on-line, wired generation's equivalent of the "couch potato."
OHNO-SECOND:
That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a really, really big mistake.
SALMON DAY:
A day you've spent "swimming against the current," only to discover at the end of it that, at least as far as that day's concerned, all you've done is died!
STARTER MARRIAGE:
A short-lived first marriage that ends in divorce with "no kids, no property, and no regrets."
STRESS PUPPY:
A person who seems to thrive on telling everybody how much stress he or she has been feeling. (Think that'll take the place of "cheese and whine parties"?)
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I like 'yomp', because the sound of it (and the feel of it if you say it) fit so superbly with the meaning.
Not sure if this word has made it out of the UK yet?
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I like 'yomp', because the sound of it (and the feel of it if you say it) fit so superbly with the meaning.
Very true. Since I first heard it as a 14 year old watching TV coverage of the Falklands conflict, I have loved the way "yomp" rolls off the tongue, and it is very evocative. That could be largely by association, but the word brings back vivid images, and seems to hint at the exertion involved in yomping.
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>Not sure if this word has made it out of the UK yet?
this is the first I've heard of it... and it doesn't turn up at all in OneLook. but the OED has it, so it will soon be covered by WWFTD (and therefore OneLook)!
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Old hands will know all ropes. New hands struggle: for example in this string I've seen ref to 'Onelook', 'WWFTD', and 'Word Flex', all of which are not yet known to me.
Is there already (or otherwise could we build) a simple index to word-related sites AWAD subscribers have found as a useful resource? I recently got posted a superb such collection of library-orientated research sites.
Which leaves only the drudgery of having to live off-line in the intervals...:)
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AUGH-GH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I HATE the word "orientated"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Jackie, I think that's standard Britspeak. They do like the extra syllable, y'know: witness "aluminium" and "speciality"  (awaiting word from across the Pond....)
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maverick, I think that's a splendid idea. In fact, I started such a thread way back when in "Miscellany" but it didn't take.... perhaps our word guru tsuwm would be so kind to re-start it with these word-related sites (one of which is his baby) and we can contribute others.
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