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I reckon on a fairly rapid skim through that there were about 20 that were completely new to me. Strangely these were almost all in the first half of the alphabet. A good list.
Today's Oxford word for the day was new to me:
bovrilize
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an old-fashioned verb meaning 'to condense something to its essence'. This example is from a 1911 edition of the Daily News: 'Here is one of those bovrilized announcements: Wanted, Sit. as Comp. by Eng. Lady, 35; good refs, would trav.' It's taken, of course, from Bovril, the trademark name for a concentrated essence of beef which can be diluted with hot water to make a drink.
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted A new word site wwh 01/27/03 04:22 PM Re: Apocope Faldage 01/27/03 04:35 PM Re: today's obviousizing tsuwm 01/27/03 05:20 PM Re: today's obviousizing Faldage 01/27/03 05:22 PM Re: today's obviousizing WhitmanO'Neill 01/27/03 09:03 PM Re: today's obviousizing Jackie 01/28/03 01:18 AM Re: A new word site dxb 01/27/03 04:38 PM Re: A new word site wwh 01/27/03 04:58 PM
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