I thought I'd start a "word" thread. Word discussions, jokes, etc., happen here all the time and it seems that a lot of people have fun with them.

Words you like, repulse you, never made any sense, don't jive with their meaning(s), newly discovered words, new words, usage, syntax, etc. are all game.

I never use it, but I've always liked mellifluous, though I think it's spelled incorrectly.

I have a friend who cannot tolerate moist--and she's a food critic! It makes her recall only festering wounds.

Now there's an icky word----fester.

I think that petite and pity should be antonyms.

On one side of the womens' department you have the petite sizes, and on the other you have the pity sizes.

Use and usage are not interchangable.

I saw Impactful in a print ad yesterday. Sounds like a punch in the jaw.

Sleuce has nothing to do with what it is.
(A double-sized piece o' pie?)

And I sorely need a replacement for F. In the future, as portrayed on TV sci-fi, the new words will be frack and frell. Really? What? Is the future for pussies only?

Forget sounds contrary to its meaning.

And I love syzygy, just 'cause of how it looks.

If you overuse myself, then you sound like a doofus trying to sound sophistimicated.

Words eh? How about "Bob"

Verb:
(of a thing) Make a quick short movement up and down: "the boat bobbed up and down".
Cut (someone's hair) in a bob.
Noun:
A movement up and down.
A style in which the hair is cut short and evenly all around so that it hangs above the shoulders.
A shilling.
A change of order in bell-ringing.

The word is as diverse as it's owner.

I hate it when my teenage patients (and a few young adults) ask if I can higher their medication. As far as I can tell, this has not yet made it into the language officially as the opposite of "lower". It exists only to show one's selective amnesia regarding the word raise.

Raised education?

I liked the below word recently, although it's hard to work into a conversation - bonus points for those that can!

Hemidemisemiquaver

Oh, yeah, I meant exists as a verb ...

Yeah, I knew that, since you're all edumicated and stuff.

Believe it or not, I used to read the Oxford Dictionary for hours on end.

One of my favorite words is onomatopoeia. I also like vagina. That word always makes me happy.

To me, one of the most aggravating grammatical err's people often make is the proper use of lay and/or lie. You don't lay down in bed!

I lay me down to sleep... poem.

I like abstemious and facetious because all five vowels are present in order.

I am partial to the word crocodile.

The folks down here seem to like the word MALFEASANCE to describe corruption, particularly as a behavior of a politician in office... has always sounded to me like "bad feces"
which, of course, is a great description of a politician.

I can't think of any words at the moment. Ummm... ho-bag.

You all are so incongrous.

U-Haul are so obtuse.

this is not a word, but a meaningful sentence;
anyone good enough in french to unravel it?

plus que tu pédale moins vite, moins que t'arrive plus vite.

JP, I think they're merely making a Freudian slip. Afterall, they're not looking to get "raised" on the weekend, are they?

Ha! You picked three words. I think you see them as inextricably intermingled, don't you?

When I staffed the function rooms at Fenway Park, I hired a college student from Romania named Vajina (Va-gee-na). I had ordered a name tag to have by her 1st day of work. After her 3rd day, the manager called and ordered a name badge for a "Gina."

Bluenose manager!

Good one! Now I will always think the same when I see/hear it.

You all are so full of malfeasance.

No, everything here... it's all bonfeasance, mon.

I like the words ebony and grotto today. I guess Ebony Grotto is my next stupid character name.

Chris shared the word "apivorous" on Facebook the other day. I hadn't seen that one before. I like it.

The word of the day is "pomegranate" among my high school classmates on Facebook today.

Interesting choice. It was rarely part of everyday language, until the Pom thing. Now it's in everything from yogurt to cookies. And no one could spell it correctly 10 years ago, either.

hirsute

Always thought so, It looks soooo Japanese.

...or did Bill show you a beach picture when I was out of the room?

ha ha ha ha ahh aha!!!

I think the catch-all word for everyone's interests here should be termed, audiophilia.

It now connotes a condition (psychosis), which seems appropriate.

But it's still untreatable.

See, I just shouted a stupid word and referenced another.

"Indicted" should be indighted, and indicted (pronounced indickted ) should mean something else.

And does turpitude have any life without "moral?"
Should it?

As in: "Bob, you've soaked one to many brush in turpitude and the fumes have gone to your head."

Note that I have left out the brand, Moral or Gnostical I leave that up to the discretion of the reader.

Gubernatorial always makes me giggle.

You were that guy in anatomy class that always giggled at the word gubernaculum, weren't you?!

Phobophobia. The fear of fear itself.

At this part of the football season if the Saints are doing well, like they are this year, the word 'ebullient' starts being thrown around in the local paper.

Scott, Do N.O.'s ever use malfeasance AND ebullient in the same sentence?

I think it came close this week after the Saints win against Atlanta... The Dirty Birds are crying foul because Brees, et al, ran up the score "just" for record breaking purposes, they claim. I'm not seeing a difference between the score this week (45-16) and last weeks Falcons win against the Jaguars (41-14). Why isn't that being called running up the score? Sure sounds like malfeasance to me

I'd like to see the word "awesome" removed from usage. Especially in those unbelievably useful one word online reviews.

That would be awesome.

Every time I hear or see it used, I feel personally malfeased.

There's one! Use/usage. Like dose/dosage.

Though no one is confused with the meanings of either, they're not really interchangable. Not a comment or your use of "usage."

(Especially since you used in it in such a small "dosage.")

Even though you're hundreds of miles away, Ray, I still always feel a bit intimidated to raz you.
I know why, too. It's because we have sat close enough for you to haul off and jam me in mid-sentence, which for some wierd reason, I always feel is imminent no matter who's sitting next to me. Or maybe it was because your hand is twice the size of my head and I was sitting too close to a wall??

Fear not small one. I am a raz attractor and have never been able to scrub it off.

Golden Oldie (from Dan Galvin's Thought for the Day listserv)

tftd heard a lawyer talk about 'unmitigated gall'. tftd
has previously wondered about 'clement' weather and now
questioned whether there was 'mitigated gall'. Others
have obviously had the same question.

How I Met My Wife

Jack Winter, the New Yorker, July 25, 1994.


It had been a rough day, so when I walked into the party
I was very chalant, despite my efforts to appear gruntled
and consolate.

I was furling my weildy umbrella for the coat check when
I saw her standing alone in a corner. She was a descript
person, a woman in a state of total array. Her hair was
kempt, her clothing shevelled, and she moved in a gainly way.

I wanted desperately to meet her, but I knew I'd have
to make bones about it, since I was travelling cognito.
Beknowst to me, the hostess, whom I could see both
hide and hair of, was very proper, so it would be skin
off my nose if anything bad happened. And even though
I had only swerving loyalty to her, my manners couldn't
be peccable. Only toward and heard-of behavior would do.

Fortunately, the embarrassment that my maculate
appearance might cause was evitable. There were two
ways about it, but the chances that someone as
flappable as I would be ept enough to become
persona grata or a sung hero were slim. I was, after all,
something to sneeze at, someone you could easily
hold a candle to, someone who usually aroused
bridled passion.

So I decided not to risk it. But then, all at once,
for some apparent reason, she looked in my
direction and smiled in a way that I could
make head or tails of.

I was plussed. It was concerting to see that she was
communicado, and it nerved me that she was
interested in a pareil like me, sight seen. Normally,
I had a domitable spirit, but, being corrigible, I
felt capacitated.as if this were something I was
great shakes at.and forgot that I had succeeded
in situations like this only a told number of times.
So, after a terminable delay, I acted with mitigated gall
and made my way through the ruly crowd with strong givings.

Nevertheless, since this was all new hat to me and
I had not time to prepare a promptu speech, I was
petuous. Wanting to make only called-for remarks,
I started talking about the hors d'oeuvres, trying to
abuse her of the notion that I was sipid, and perhaps
even bunk a few myths about myselfs.

She responded well, and I was mayed that she
considered me a savoury character who was up to
some good. She told me who she was.
"What a perfect nomer," I said, advertently. The
conversation became more and more choate,
and we spoke at length to much avail. But I was
defatigable, so I had to leave at a godly hour.
I asked if she wanted to come with me. To my delight,
she was committal. We left the party together and have
been together ever since. I have given her my love, and
she has requited it.

-Smackerels

http://beebo.org/smackerels/how-i-met-my-wife.html

I think they're ALL included in there! That's way cool ("awesome " for Ray) and must of [sic] taken a couple of hole [sic] days.

Awesome.

Pretty cool, Tom, but also taxing to read!

These two have always grossed me out.

Colloidal Oatmeal
Sounds like oatmeal that's already been inside you for a while and refuses to leave.

Avuncular
Now if that's not a word to describe the condition of a boil on a hobo's ass, then nothing can.

Thanks guys! I really had fun today!

They really like using words in the paper here (Times-Picayune)that most would have to look up...

Today's word: IMBROGLIO

Did the imbroglio cause a broo-haha?

only at the brothel

Wouldn't that make it a bra-hoohoo?

or a bra-hoo-'ho

I think of this whenever I see that word.

Me too, Peter.

Naa. She didn't show enough skin or have a stripper pole.

Saw that one coming. It's your ages. You woudn't think that if you already knew that word before she was born.

I be chucklin at yo sig, Bob of 9.

Your best one was the quote from Beer about Ray3.