audio clip of ron foreman asking for the word redingote
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i didnt feel i could do an episode on the word redingote.a for one thing i already did an episode just this past monday on the word zaftig.
how many weird words can i do when my theme ...... [Show More]
money makes the world go round and cash is king.a the word cash appeared in english right around the time of shakespeare and he being right on top of this language thing used it.
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in henry v two soldiers discussing gambling debts mention it.a sha...... [Show More]
straynimation Post Source: www.ultrabrown.com Posted: Nov 25 2008 03:12:14
both hollywood and bollywood just released 3d animated movies starring pooches. going by the status of most dogs in india id have guessed the star of roadside romeo would be a mangy stray rather than a lost pet. but both romeo and bolt are privileged house dogs who by happenstance lose their cushy pampered lives.
i havent seen romeo which was directed by jugal hansraj ...... [Show More]
here i go again. audio clip from lynn crymble
i mean here i go again including a word that i might not get away with calling a common word.
id actually never heard of the word zaftig until i was looking for words for my book on words to do with the body.a there are a shortage of body words that start with z.
in case you dont know what zaftig means as i didnt...... [Show More]
the cantaloupe melon gets its name from its brush with the pope.
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it is thought that cantaloupes originally were cultivated in armenia before being brought and grown in a place near rome reputedly in the garden of the popes country villa. the ...... [Show More]
on etymology Post Source: www.escobosa.com Posted: Nov 20 2008 22:19:03
etymology one Post Source: www.ajax-blog.com Posted: Nov 20 2008 21:29:00
etymology is fascinating to me. most recently i was reading about the history of the word one. have you ever wondered why its pronounced wun instead of rhyming with own according to the sources ive read including the awesome online etymology dictionary it originally did. in fact the word only still uses that pronunciation and derives from the same root. ...... [Show More]
this is a re podcast of an episode that first aired july 18 2005.
i didnt want to just recycle the same old stuff so i took a look to see if there had been any changes in the meaning or relevance of the word over the past three years.
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i was a li...... [Show More]
jd ahmanson asked about the word scale because
it can mean to climb up a cliff
it can mean a device for showing how much something weighs or
it can refer to the outside of a fish.
the short answer is polysemy.
erin mckean defined polysemy as the greedy habit that some words have of taking more than one meaning for themselves.
in the case of scale polysemy isn821...... [Show More]
the official dictionary derivations of all the words mentioned will be found at www.shiurtimes.com to avoid further criticism of bias together with the interchange equivalents involved based on online etymological dictionary .
some critiques about mentioned in the my last article were mainly about statistical considerations and the question of derivation of the five exampl...... [Show More]
just as historical romance is dominated by the regency period an awful lot of fantasy particularly epic fantasy defaults to a generic western medieval setting swords castles and kings forests horsesnot too much rampant plague or other real medieval drawbacks though82 30it821 7s understandable because the western world had knights and broadswords sword fights are fun and guns ...... [Show More]
a felon is a crook.a a felony is a serious crime.
it seems that in true legal jargon felony is still current terminology for americans but has been replaced by new legal jargon in other countries.
if the crime isnt serious enough to be called a felony then it is a misdemeanor.
it turns out that most fat dictionaries list two different words felon .a one of these is an ...... [Show More]
one of the reasons that alfred the great was so great was that he kicked the vikings out of england.
another was that he wasnt just a soldier but also a scholar.
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after 80 years or so of ongoing viking pillaging the state of english literacy had su...... [Show More]
urbandictionary says that an incubation period is the time between when you first hear a piece of music and think its soso until you are playing it nonstop on your ipod.
most of us are more familiar with an incubation period being the amount of time it takes between when that guy sneezed on you in the bus and when you actually get a cold yourself.
that usage first arose in 1835 ...... [Show More]
what or who is a hub director
its my personal definition of anyone organizing a conference unconference barcamp open space event meeting or gathering revolving around one or more topics of interest. in fact i chose hub because my idea and actual experience of a conference fits nicely with its etymology
perhaps from hubbe originally lump the source of hob of a ...... [Show More]
hear hear Post Source: sherricornelius.com Posted: Nov 07 2008 14:27:58
heres an interesting tidbit for you. on my morning treadmill surfing i had occasion to write hear hear on another blog. i had a moment of doubt about the spelling. it could have been here instead of hear. have never been sure. ive always thought the phrase meant i hear ya dude but i thought it could have meant over here is someone who agr...... [Show More]
if you are into astronomy or astrology it will come as no surprise that cancer means crab and did also in greek and latin.
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but in greek and latin as in english cancer also means a malignant tumor and has done since before latin became a ...... [Show More]
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t he new oxford american dictionary defines facetious as treating serious issues with deliberately...... [Show More]
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audio clip of mark jaquith asking for gesticulate
mark also has a word oriented blog.a its called wordsplosion.com and he invites people to submit pictures of spelling mistakes or grammatical errors in public signs and the like.a its a...... [Show More]
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trust me folks you havent seen the last of sarah palin. the disasta from alaska is about to become the new queen of a new dixie. i know what you are thinking. alaska is about as far north of the masondixon line as you can get and not fall into the arctic ocean. there arent any cotton fields up there and alaska was still in russia when we had the civil war.
but...... [Show More]
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in the latter half of the 1700s this guy antoine lavoisier had this theory.a he figured that heat was a physical property a material substance like water.
his thinking was something along the lines that if you take a bowl of water an...... [Show More]
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ive found that i am a pretty busy guy these days and so for the next few weeks or months im going to be occasionally recycling some of my favorite episodes.a i think most people wont have heard or read them before because ill be r...... [Show More]
audio clip of jane wells asking for the word insinuate
the oxford dictionary of english says that insinuate means to suggest or hint something bad in an indirect and unpleasant way.
if someone insinuated something about you it might get up your nose and thatd be appropriate since insinuate is etymologically related to sinus.
the oxford english dictio...... [Show More]
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