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Posted: Jan 13, 2025 - 1:43pm

 Proclivities wrote:
Unusual Words in the English Dictionary
I am familiar with several of them (one from Poe, one from art school), but it's an interesting list.



Quincunx

Noun: An arrangement of five objects with four at the corners of a square or rectangle and the fifth at its centre, used for the five on a dice or playing card.


If you're into dark novels of Victorian intrigue and skulduggery, I highly highly recommend "The Quincunx" by Charles Palliser. One critic compared it favorably to Charles Dickens' "Bleak House"; I'd say it's easier to read and faster-paced than Dickens' work.  Why Palliser's work hasn't been made into a film or series is beyond me. 

If you want to dig into "Bleak House" but are daunted by its length and convoluted sentences, check out the TV series "Bleak House" with Gillian Anderson, Charles Dance, Timothy West (father of the guy who plays Siegfried in the new "All Creatures Great and Small"), Carey Mulligan, Phil Davis (looking like a feverish, malignant marmot), etc. Absolutely top drawer stuff. 



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Posted: Jan 10, 2025 - 11:48am

I've always been particularly fond of Exacerbation. It reminds me of another word .... 
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Posted: Jan 10, 2025 - 11:35am

Unusual Words in the English Dictionary
I am familiar with several of them (one from Poe, one from art school), but it's an interesting list.
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Posted: Dec 27, 2024 - 5:27pm

 Steely_D wrote:



That was fascinating—thanks! I remember being struck years ago that the accents in Baltimore had some things in common with the ones in Pittsburgh. And the Boston accent seems to be softening...
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Posted: Dec 27, 2024 - 1:55pm

You’re just getting too personal with me! I’m just an Intelligent Idioms.   
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Posted: Dec 27, 2024 - 11:49am

  Doozy, is one of my favorites.  Via the usual references:

"While it's often maintained that the word doozy derives from the "Duesenberg" in the name of the famed Duesenberg Motor Company, this is impossible on chronological grounds. Doozy was first recorded (in the form dozy) in eastern Ohio in 1916, four years before the Duesenberg Motor Company began to manufacture passenger cars; the related adjective doozy, meaning "stylish" or "splendid," is attested considerably earlier, in 1903. So where did doozy come from? Etymologists believe that it's an altered form of the word daisy, which was used especially in the late 1800s as a slang term for someone or something considered the best."
_____________________________

This is  Doozy. Or the Dooz, or Doozerino, if you're not into that whole brevity thing.

She started out with such promise...




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Posted: Dec 26, 2024 - 4:27pm

 Proclivities wrote:
20 Delightful Idioms From Around the World
Idioms are by definition non-literal, but native speakers of a language rarely think about just how nonsensical these sayings can sometimes be. For instance, using the cat’s pajamas—a phrase popularized by flappers during the Roaring Twenties—to describe something as amazing doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. But English isn’t alone in having idioms that sound delightfully bizarre; here are 20 examples from languages around the world.


WHAT DID YOU CALL MY MOM??!!!
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Posted: Dec 26, 2024 - 11:22am

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:






ugh. I hate to suck...
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Posted: Dec 26, 2024 - 11:08am

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wouldn't that be "oinkment"?

sorry. sometimes even I can't stop myself...




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Posted: Dec 26, 2024 - 9:40am

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

warmyellowmittens‪ @warmyellowlight.bsky.social‬

ointment seems like a word a pig invented



wouldn't that be "oinkment"?

sorry. sometimes even I can't stop myself...
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Posted: Dec 26, 2024 - 9:31am

warmyellowmittens‪ @warmyellowlight.bsky.social‬
ointment seems like a word a pig invented

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Posted: May 9, 2024 - 10:22am

20 Delightful Idioms From Around the World
Idioms are by definition non-literal, but native speakers of a language rarely think about just how nonsensical these sayings can sometimes be. For instance, using the cat’s pajamas—a phrase popularized by flappers during the Roaring Twenties—to describe something as amazing doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. But English isn’t alone in having idioms that sound delightfully bizarre; here are 20 examples from languages around the world.
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Posted: Nov 4, 2022 - 12:27pm

cabbage
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Posted: Feb 11, 2022 - 1:10pm

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:

omg.. I must have missed this.  

I really think a universe without MBE would be missing meaning.



"or the search for meaning, but first translation"
~ov
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Posted: Feb 11, 2022 - 11:38am

 miamizsun wrote:

had to brush up from my days at manbird u


omg.. I must have missed this.  

I really think a universe without MBE would be missing meaning.

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Posted: Feb 11, 2022 - 9:58am

 Manbird wrote:
Yeah, I have to ask my stupid doctor if I can have a uvulopalatopharyngoplasty.
For reals! 
 
had to brush up from my days at manbird u

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Posted: Feb 11, 2022 - 6:36am

 Manbird wrote:

Yeah, I have to ask my stupid doctor if I can have a uvulopalatopharyngoplasty.
For reals! 





what some people will do for a good nights sleep
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Posted: Feb 10, 2022 - 7:07pm

Yeah, I have to ask my stupid doctor if I can have a uvulopalatopharyngoplasty.
For reals! 



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