quote:Originally posted by Monza305: This topic made me think of that, 'cause I teased her for months for using such an old fashioned word.
I used the word "wristwatch" this summer and one of my coworkers is still teasing me about it.
See, I don't get that. Your co worker is the weird one, not you. I say wristwatch and I don't know anyone who doesn't.
I said something about the "food chain" while out fishing with some good old boys and they absolutely had FITS with that. In fact if I were to grace them with my presence even now after 15 years, (something I try to avoid) they'd probably still carry on about it. If they could remember how to pronounce it, that is.
"FOOD CHAIN" is a an obscure expression??? WTF?
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quote:Originally posted by Spam & Cookies-mmm: I'm pleased to say that I use several of the words in this thread fairly regularly. I have to drag out the dictionary for my office mates about once a week.
One word I use only in my head, because I don't want to have to explain it to other people, is "ken." It seems so very useful to have a one syllable word that means "the full range of my knowledge."
Wow. Suddenly there's a phrase from "16 going on 17" that makes sense to me now.
quote:Originally posted by Sister Ray: The phrase "bad mojo".
I say mojo all the time, it's one of my favorite words.
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One group of co-workers accused me of inventing the words "scofflaw," "gaslighting," and "sullen."
sullen??!!
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quote:Originally posted by Spam & Cookies-mmm: [QUOTE]As a Southerner, I use y'all as the second person plural pronoun, but the possessive form, y'all's, doesn't sound or look very nice.
That's because the correct second person plural possesive is "all y'alls", and you ought to know that, you heathern* you.
*the CORRECTED form of "heathen".
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Has anyone compiled these into one list yet? I'm fixin' to do it myself, but anytime I can save time by appropriating someone else's work, I do.
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I, too, use many of the words mentioned here. Particularly 'groovy' and 'neato'.
I like words. I guess it's what's pushed me into Linguistics. When he was seven, my son asked my why my handwriting was so miniscule.
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Gayle it really isn't a brouhaha, but more of an imbroglio or kerfuffle.
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During a game of Scrabble, my husband called me on the word "trivet". I couldn't locate the dictionary and he absolutely refused to believe it was a real word. I consider my husband to be a brilliant man, so this explains all the funny looks I got in school when I talked, I suppose.
To this day, we cannot walk into a store that sells kitchenware without my pointing out their selection of trivets to him.
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Has anyone said shenanigans yet? I know I meant to...
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Okay, I've just compiled a list. If anyone would like it emailed to them, PM me the address you would like it sent to. We're up to 146 words. I hope I didn't leave any out, but there shouldn't be any duplications.
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I use that a bit when i am at training for work, the pub across from the hotel we stay at, which during training is frequented nearly everynight, serves a beer called Beez neez. It's supposed to have a bit of a honey taste.
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Tatterdemalion. Go ahead, say it with me. Tatterdemalion. I love this word because it's so much fun to say.
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I wanted to be the first to post "curmudgeon" and "pulchritude" (my two favorite words), but sadly, my plan did not come to fruition. However, I am gruntled to see that masticate has not been listed.
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Twice... I did the 2nd one after totally not noticing that someone beat me to it.
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It just occured to me that I use the words "spiffy" and "nifty," and I'm the only one I know who does so.
So let me add:
spiffy nifty
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quote:Originally posted by Spam & Cookies-mmm: I'd also like thee, thou, thy & thine to come back.
Only if we used them to clarify the difference between second person singular and plural, as they were intended.
Nick
But if we did that, how would we distinguish between many people, and one person to whom we were being polite? Bah!
quote:Originally posted by UrbanReindeer: To this day, we cannot walk into a store that sells kitchenware without my pointing out their selection of trivets to him.
I have a trivet in the shape of a fish. That's where the expression "As fish-shaped as a trivet" comes from.
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My grandparents had an unusual dialect. I don't know if it was an influence from their elders or a mix of southern/mountain sayings/folklore or both. Probably a combination of both. They are both gone now but were born in the late 1890s. Here is a couple of real life examples:
Grandaddy to Rangerdog: "Son, go crank up your truck, there's business needs doing and you got to carry me into town. Grandma needs me to fetch her up some flower and salt and I want you to tote that for me while I see the banker-man."
Grandma to Rangerdog: "Outen that light, boy! We don't have money for any electricity, extra, round here"
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That sort of dialect is alive and well (at least in my family.) In many ways, it has more in common with older patterns of speech (i.e. older versions of English), hence the extra syllables added to many words ("outen" or "heren"
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"Carry," is, I believe, still commonly used to mean "give a ride to" in the southern US. "Tote" is still pretty widely used, too.
My mother, whose family was from Western Pennsylvania, always used to "redd" (clear) the table after dinner. I later learned that "to redd" means "to tidy," as in tidying or "picking up" a room.
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I wasn't aware that this shorthand for selfish potential sadist in training had ever fallen out of style.
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I wasn't aware that this shorthand for selfish potential sadist in training had ever fallen out of style.
Seaboe
I'm guessing that desertdweller is referring to the Theodore Roosevelt-esque "Bully!" sense of the word.
Bad "Bully Pulpit" Ronald
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Well, then, he should've been more specific.
In any case, I believe the negative use of the word has made it unlikely for the positive sense to be revived, which is really too bad.
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For those advocating the use ofGood Googly Moogly you clearly have not seen the latest Project Pat video.
I must be weird, as I think I've used a good chunk of these words listed.
I still get laughed at by my friends for calling the cops to report "a group of youths engaging in fisticuffs in the McDonald's parking lot." Not that I didn't deserve that. I realized as it was coming out of my mouth that I sounded like Mr. Burns. I'm still not sure why I put it that way.
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I would like to know what the word is that means: "A desire to do something, but not a strong enough desire to actually get up and do it"
I heard it on the radio the other day, and immediately thought that it was a word I could use most days - my mind tells me it was something like verisality ..but my googling is in vain.
anyone?
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quote:Originally posted by the Virgin Marrya: I would like to know what the word is that means: "A desire to do something, but not a strong enough desire to actually get up and do it"
I heard it on the radio the other day, and immediately thought that it was a word I could use most days - my mind tells me it was something like verisality ..but my googling is in vain.
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Gale, it's been many years, but I'm guessing the response you're looking for is this:
"Brouhaha? Ha ha ha!"
from the Firesign Theatre.
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A songwriter friend of mine wrote an entire song in order to use the word "verisimilitude".
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