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26. Friday, March 23, 2007 10:21 AM
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I've been having this sneaking hunch that Booth has been inventing words and definitions.  I Googled the last one -- got lots of other Urban Legend defs.  Then I checked Dictionary.com and found this...

No results found for cagamosis.

Uh, huh!  I don't know.  Maybe it's not English.  Maybe it's some Inuit word.

Susan 

 


     
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27. Friday, March 23, 2007 10:47 AM
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QUOTE:Logomisia - disgust for certain words.

"Ugh! Newspaper! ... litterbin ... dreadful tinny sort of words. Tin, tin, tin."

This is scandalous!

No results found for Logomisia.

I'm having second thoughts about all that faith I bestowed in your movie recommendations, Booth!  Were you fooled too or are you the fooler?

Deep thoughts.  Or as we say in Tarzana, "diptothermaphiliosaurusism." 

Susan 

 


     
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28. Friday, March 23, 2007 11:08 AM
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I'm having second thoughts about all that faith I bestowed in your movie recommendations, Booth!

Noooooo!

Look, here http://www.answers.com/topic/logomisia

 
29. Friday, March 23, 2007 11:53 AM
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Ah, Booth.... Do you believe everything you read on the Internets? It's not in my Websters either. I'm concerned that the kaniq must have gotten to one inuk.

Susan


     
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30. Friday, March 23, 2007 3:26 PM
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I guess it could technically be catagamosis. Cata- being the Greek prefix for down, commonly used for words with a bad connotation, such as catastrophe, gamos being the Greek word for marriage, and -osis, the Greek suffix for being in a state of something.

But that doesn't sound very good, so cagamosis it is.


Same thing goes for logomisia, logos meaning word, and miso-, mis-, and -misia meaning hate, hatred and so on.


Edit: I did some further research and found that the Greek word for bad is kakos, so I guess that could be the reason for the first part, and not cata-. Though I was right about everything else.

 
31. Friday, March 23, 2007 4:24 PM
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Runcible spoon: better known as the spork (a spoon with fork-ish tines). Coined by American humorist Ogden Nash.

 
32. Saturday, March 24, 2007 6:14 AM
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Rehabracadabra - The attempt to make problems magically disappear
by announcing you are seeking help to battle an addiction.

 
33. Saturday, March 24, 2007 9:46 AM
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Good one, LG! I don't know if any dictionaries still do this, but we used to have one that added a back section of new words in common usage.  It's hilarious to check and see which ones stuck. 

I think I'll Chris's lead and invite you to explore a useful, real word.  In fact, a Runcible spoon might be useful with a thick cup of latte served up with a cardboard ZARF ala Starbucks.  Zarf = the word you've actually needed while calling it a "thingie" instead. 

zarf (n) - a holder, usually of ornamental metal, for a coffee cup without a handle.

Every day after work, she'd stop at Harry's Bar for an Irish Coffee served in a glass wrapped by a copper zarf.

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34. Saturday, March 24, 2007 9:54 AM
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QUOTE:

Good one, LG! I don't know if any dictionaries still do this, but we used to have one that added a back section of new words in common usage.  It's hilarious to check and see which ones stuck. 

I think I'll Chris's lead and invite you to explore a useful, real word.  In fact, a Runcible spoon might be useful with a thick cup of latte served up with a cardboard ZARF ala Starbucks.  Zarf = the word you've actually needed while calling it a "thingie" instead. 

zarf (n) - a holder, usually of ornamental metal, for a coffee cup without a handle.

Every day after work, she'd stop at Harry's Bar for an Irish Coffee served in a glass wrapped by a copper zarf.

 Susan

"Zarf", eh? I don't say "thingie". I'd likely have said "sleeve" or "cuff".  ZARF it is!!!
 

 
35. Saturday, March 24, 2007 10:39 AM
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 Abracadaver:  the magic of necrophilia!!!

 
36. Saturday, March 24, 2007 10:42 AM
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QUOTE:Runcible spoon: better known as the spork (a spoon with fork-ish tines). Coined by American humorist Ogden Nash.

See, this is educational...I always thought it was Edward Lear in The Owl and the Pussycat that came up with that one



My theory by A. Elk, brackets, Miss, brackets. This theory goes as follows and begins now. All brontosauruses are thin at one end, much much thicker in the middle, and then thin again at the far end. That is my theory, it is mine, and it belongs to me, and I own it, and what it is, too.

Ange's Odyssey


 
37. Saturday, March 24, 2007 11:09 AM
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QUOTE:

QUOTE:Runcible spoon: better known as the spork (a spoon with fork-ish tines). Coined by American humorist Ogden Nash.

See, this is educational...I always thought it was Edward Lear in The Owl and the Pussycat that came up with that one


DANG! I stand erected! It was indeed Lear, not Nash (though I'm sure he came up with some cool new wordage). May a frumious bandersnatch fly into & out of my erroneous behind!!!
 

 
38. Saturday, March 24, 2007 11:38 AM
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Ogden Nash may well have come up with the immortal line:"Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker."!!!! According to Wikipedia anyway...

 
39. Saturday, March 24, 2007 11:56 AM
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QUOTE:Ogden Nash may well have come up with the immortal line:"Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker."!!!! According to Wikipedia anyway...

I would have thought that was WC Fields. 

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40. Saturday, March 24, 2007 12:47 PM
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QUOTE:

I would have thought that was WC Fields.

Also known as Flushing Meadows.


 
41. Saturday, March 24, 2007 2:32 PM
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Words that are homophonically phunny (it means "sounds the same as".  Stop your gigglin'!)   Undeterred: means unchanged in speed or attitude, NOT  a small piece of poo in your panties.

 
42. Sunday, March 25, 2007 3:10 AM
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Smudgely - to nestle one's beard against another's beard in an affectionate, often biblically post-intimate manner. 

 "I can't wait to get all smudgely with you tonight"


On the second day he came
With a single red rose
Said "Will you give me your loss and your sorrow?"
I nodded my head as I lay on the bed
He said, "If I show you the roses will you follow?"

On the third day he took me to the river
He showed me the roses and we kissed
And the last thing I heard was a muttered word
As he stood smiling above me
With a rock in his fist

They call me the wild rose
But my name was Eliza Day
Why they call me it I do not know
For my name was Eliza Day

 
43. Sunday, March 25, 2007 1:25 PM
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Sayaloha: a Japanese/Hawaiian hybrid meaning hello, goodbye, & "would you like a lovely sushi & pineapple cocktail san"?

 
44. Sunday, March 25, 2007 1:55 PM
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Rebarbative - irritating, repellent.

 
45. Monday, April 9, 2007 1:07 PM
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Dictionary.com's word of the day.

abecedarian
\ay-bee-see-DAIR-ee-uhn\, noun:
1. One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a beginner.
2. One engaged in teaching the alphabet.

adjective:
1. Pertaining to the letters of the alphabet.
2. Arranged alphabetically.
3. Rudimentary; elementary.

 
46. Monday, April 9, 2007 2:44 PM
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crucifixation: obsessed with the cross, likely a Christian, possibly a member of the KKK (if fire & intimidation is part of this neurosis).

 
47. Saturday, May 12, 2007 9:59 AM
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Time for thread REVIVAL!!! Penultimate: next to last...

 
48. Sunday, May 13, 2007 9:18 AM
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QUOTE:Time for thread REVIVAL!!! Penultimate: next to last...

YAY , Chris! I love that word!

Use it in a sentence.

Okay, I will.

David Chase tends to save his best episodes of The Sopranos for the penultimate episode rather than the ultimate or last.

...or...

Two weeks from today, the penultimate episode of the final season of The Sopranos will air.

...or...

Some people feel the penultimate season of The Sopranos was a weak one but I disagree.

Susan


     
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49. Sunday, May 13, 2007 10:06 AM
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QUOTE:
QUOTE:Time for thread REVIVAL!!! Penultimate: next to last...

YAY , Chris! I love that word!

Use it in a sentence.

Okay, I will.

David Chase tends to save his best episodes of The Sopranos for the penultimate episode rather than the ultimate or last.

...or...

Two weeks from today, the penultimate episode of the final season of The Sopranos will air.

...or...

Some people feel the penultimate season of The Sopranos was a weak one but I disagree.

Susan

  Susan, glad you approve. I hope this is the penultimate time you use the creatively misspelled form of the English word for approval "yea",  dumbed down to "yay". 
 

 
50. Sunday, May 13, 2007 10:48 AM
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And comic genius that you are, Chris, I am certain you picked up on my feeble attempt at humoring you!  But seriously...

...just this morning I saw a commercial for Reese's Pieces Milk Shakes at some fast food joint that ended with a great big

YAY!  Reese's Pieces Shakes!!!

You know who immediately came to my groggy mind upon seeing that word, don't you?  We may have reached the point in societal evolution (or deevolution) where you, Chris, will be forced to accept the common usage by the vulgate of the word "YAY!"  Sorry to say.  Hey, I'm the one who won't update my 20th century dictionary out of pure stubborness. 

We each have our irksome words that hit our gramattical nerves.  Two of mine are when people say EK-cetera instead of ET-cetera or I feel BADLY instead of I feel BAD. 

Power to the Vulgate, as sad as it is.

 

Susan 


     
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