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>Mainly because I've also had posts unexpectedly double themselves Interesting. I've had the same problem too. Yet, when I tried to do a double post in this thread it wouldn't let me. I had to change the wording to get it through. 
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>We do not say "it's no fair."
Ah, but we say "it's not fair" to mean the same thing. I have only just realised what my daughter meant when she crossed her arms and stamped her foot and said "no fair" the other day. I, like any good mother(??!), corrected her. As we have Sky Digital TV in the house now (hold head in shame) and she watches non-stop back editions of the Simpsons and Friends I think I know from whence it came. I'll just have to look out some ancient editions of "Upstairs Downstairs" to re-programme her speech patterns. I did so love that Mr 'Udson!
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Sky Digital TV in the house now
I know just what you mean. Our telly broke a few months back - Catherine and I looked at one another for a few quiet moments, and decided not to replace it. Shouts of "No fair!!" were prevalent for a while. But the way both monsters now voraciously consume books has to be seen to be believed - and last night I went to see my daughter and fellows from 4 local schools doing cut-down versions of 4 Shakespeare plays. Now that is re-programming their language! By the way, one of the schools did a wonderfully dark and astringent version of the Scottish play:
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair..."
which reminds me that the complexity of meaning of this word also encompasses a reference to a woman as 'a fair'.
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By the way, one of the schools did a wonderfully dark and astringent version of the Scottish play: "Fair is foul, and foul is fair..."
By "the Scottish play", I take it you mean Macbeth? (Sorry, another Blackadder reference). You're not a thespian, are you?
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not a thespian, are you?
Well Max, I guess I'll have to own up (at least partially):
Guilcup as charged, m'lud. I have done a weird & wonderful variety of jobs over the years, including some dabbled thespian tholiliqithing, and founded a small arts centre in the town where I now live.
Speaking of Macbeth, now there was a cunning plan that went turnip-shaped!
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Just returning, perhaps fleetingly, to the original subject, it occurs to me that supradentulous may be an example of a recent AWAD weekly theme "Brand names that have entered the dictionary". Supradent is a model of dentist's chair, marketed by Sabrotech: http://www.sabro-tech.com/prod/prod_4.htmlSo it occurs to me that "supradentulous" may be a derived adjective, probably meaning "laid-back", just as "hooverful" could describe something that really sucks.
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marty, your contribution on supradentulous was hooverful, to say the least; but it inspired me to look up the <ahem> root. it turns out that dentulous means simply having teeth, a back-formation from edentulous which means having no teeth. I'm guessing that supradentulous means having more teeth than is normal {which might lead to an excessively toothy grin :^}.
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What a shame - I thought I was on something again. By the way, I note from the product Web page that the Supradent chair can be programmed to "Cuspidor Return". Having just discerned that a "cuspidor" is a receptacle for spit, I am somewhat appalled by the possible functioning of the chair in return mode.
No wonder people don't like visiting the dentist.
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inspired me to look up the <ahem> root.
Well, for heaven's sake! I can't believe I did something before you did, for once. That's the very first thing I did, and for ambigamous and catastarian, too. It never occurred to me that you wouldn't have done that, or I'd've
said something. Ambi- is a word element meaning both,
around, or on both sides; -arian is a compound suffix of
adjectives and nouns; cata- is a prefix meaning down, against, or back, usually with words that came from Greek
(use just cat- if the word starts with a vowel).
But, even putting parts of the word together doesn't provide verification that the word exists.
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a back-formation from edentulous
Does this mean true wisdom was attained?
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