BS: Today's word is:-

Subject: BS: Today's word is:-
From: GUEST,Skipy
Date: 17 Apr 05 - 06:49 PM

Quite often I will say to some of my work mates "today's word is"
I will then give them a new word (to them) & challenge them to get it into conversation.

Today's word is "serendipity"

All catters reading this thread MUST use the word it it's correct context within 24 hours of reading this!
Skipy
Report back!

Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:-
From: Sorcha
Date: 17 Apr 05 - 06:50 PM

This is weird....just today I was thinking of words I like the sound of. This one is high on the list. Is that serendipity or what?

Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:-
From: Peace
Date: 17 Apr 05 - 06:51 PM

I will report back; however, serendipity may prevent that occurrence.

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From: frogprince
Date: 17 Apr 05 - 07:16 PM

Went to a small concert last night expecting to see one local favorite; as serendipity would have it though, he brought along two other of our favorites.

Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:-
From: Bobert
Date: 17 Apr 05 - 07:20 PM

I did not dip with that woman, Serin...

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From: Peace
Date: 17 Apr 05 - 07:25 PM

The _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Singers

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From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 18 Apr 05 - 05:49 AM

Obfuscation!

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From: GUEST,Mr Red
Date: 18 Apr 05 - 06:35 AM

Eschew obfuscation!

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From: GUEST,Bunnhabhain
Date: 18 Apr 05 - 06:42 AM

Reciproexclusional!

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From: Davetnova
Date: 18 Apr 05 - 07:08 AM

Bunny yer Haverin' (I always wanted tos ay that and now I've got the chance, serendipity or what?).

Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:-
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 18 Apr 05 - 09:37 AM

Sanguine.

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:-
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 18 Apr 05 - 09:39 AM

What it truly serindipitous is that it is *yesterday's* word - since I don't want to use it!

Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:-
From: Emma B
Date: 18 Apr 05 - 09:41 AM

New day - new word......
Radio programme celebrating Boswell's dictionary produced this one..

Anatiferous   -    and, yes it is still in my modern Oxford Dictionary

Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:-
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 18 Apr 05 - 10:09 AM

Thats a ducky little word

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From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Apr 05 - 12:06 PM

Floccinoccinihilipilification, it describes GWB exactly.
G..

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From: katlaughing
Date: 18 Apr 05 - 12:17 PM

Someone used "electrickery" on a talk show the other night in regards to problems with a new house being built. I LIKE it!

Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:-
From: open mike
Date: 18 Apr 05 - 12:35 PM

one of my favorite numbers is eleventyseven...
i guess i should be on teh numerology or lucky charms thread...

Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:-
From: GUEST,Skipy
Date: 18 Apr 05 - 02:25 PM

Swampdonkey

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From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 18 Apr 05 - 02:29 PM

The word today is LEGS....

Go, spread the word!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:-
From: mack/misophist
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 02:37 AM

Serendipity is just another word. As such, it's almost fungible. At least for funambulists, it is.

Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:-
From: Emma B
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 05:17 AM

Tuesday's word.....from the Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Words

Turpiloquence -
Do you turpilocute?

Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:-
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 05:21 AM

Yes unfortunately. But the prescribed meds seem to lessen the turping.

Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:-
From: Splott Man
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 10:29 AM

May I offer my contrafibularities?

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From: John MacKenzie
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 10:56 AM

Contrafibularities Blackadder?   ......   Dr Samuel Johnson.
G..

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From: gnu
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 10:59 AM

I might, if I knew what it meant. What does it mean?

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From: gnu
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 11:11 AM

C'mon Emma, you made it up. Tell what it means.

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From: Bill D
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 11:41 AM

eudaemonic...we need more stuff that is eudaemonic (producing happiness and well-being.

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From: Amos
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 03:05 PM

Someone should have told Hans Christian Andersen that goose eggs are not Anatiferous.

A

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From: Bill D
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 04:57 PM

goose? That were swans he were confoozed about.

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From: Georgiansilver
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 05:02 PM

Todays word is LOVE...lets all love each other....lets all be in love with each other...no hate! just love!

Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:-
From: gnu
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 05:21 PM

I Googled the word for the day after unsuccessfully searching for it in three dictionaries. Now I know what it means.

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From: GUEST,Skipy
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 05:55 PM

PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS (45 letters; a lung disease caused by breathing in certain particles) is the longest word in any English-language dictionary. (It is also spelled -koniosis.)

Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:-
From: GUEST,Skipy
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 05:59 PM

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words. (36 letters)

We actually used this as a quiz question @ Stanford in the Vale last Saturday in a quiz we hosted to raise cash for the hall!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:-
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 06:20 PM

Disperceptioconamericosionicalioritosis. The lack of total understanding of basic words. Difficult if you suffer from Dyslexia eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:-
From: Emma B
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 06:59 PM

OK Wenesdays Words - for the animal lovers.......it's a load of

Waggying and Werderobe

I don't make these up honest!

Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:-
From: GUEST,Skipy
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 07:10 PM

you made "Wenesdays" up!
Skipy

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From: Peace
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 07:16 PM

No she din't.

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From: GUEST
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 07:44 PM

It's actually ODINSday as in the Norse God

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From: GUEST,Norseman
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 07:46 PM

Odin, Thor and Freya are the origins on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
Saturnsday...Sunsday, Moonsday, but what is Tuesday?

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From: HuwG
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 08:06 PM

Tiv's day. Tiv, or Tiu (Tiv is probably the Romanised spelling) is another norse goddesss.

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From: Gray D
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 08:07 PM

"Tuesday
This day was named after the Norse god Tyr. The Romans named this day after their war-god Mars: dies Martis. "

Source is here

I would like today's word to be deliquesce or mellifluous, because . . . erm . . . well, just because.

Gray D

Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:-
From: GUEST,Bill the Collie
Date: 20 Apr 05 - 12:56 AM

The word:


spurned


sounds great if you roll your r's

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From: Davetnova
Date: 20 Apr 05 - 03:33 AM

I rolled mine and fell of the chair.

Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:-
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 20 Apr 05 - 06:05 AM

Am I right in thinking that the longest word in the English Dictionary is Floccinaucinihilipilification?
Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:-
From: Amos
Date: 20 Apr 05 - 09:24 AM

I would say that no-one can be wholly right thinking such thoughts, Mike.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:-
From: Amos
Date: 20 Apr 05 - 09:37 AM

"And in the Middle Ages, how concerned people who lived close to the world of nature were
with the feces of animals. And what a variety of names they had for
them: the Crotels of a Hare, the Friants of a Boar, the Spraints of
an Otter, the Werderobe of a Badger, the Waggying of a Fox, the Fumets
of a Deer. Surely there might be some words for the material so near
to the heart of Ozy Froats [an academic studying feces] than shit?
What about the Problems of a President, the Backward Passes of a
Footballer, the Deferrals of a Dean, the Odd Volumes of a Librarian,
the Footnotes of a Ph.D., the Low Grades of a Freshman, the Anxieties
of an Untenured Professor? "
-- Robertson Davies, "The Rebel Angels"

You choose shitty words, dear EmmaB!! :) This could be a whole thread in itself -- names for scat by profession. Broken strings of a folkie, the Leavings of Liverpuddlians, the backup of lorry drivers, and the mudkits of Mudcatters.




A

Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:-
From: Emma B
Date: 20 Apr 05 - 11:22 AM

Great quote Amos- I was limited by alliteration

The professions that come to mind first.....
The dead wood of lumberjacks
The remnants of tailors
The surplus of clergymen
The stools of milkmaids

and nearer to home....
The cast-offs of ceilidh dancers!

and tomorrows word is........?

Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:-
From: GUEST,Scaramouche
Date: 20 Apr 05 - 12:14 PM

If I suggest Whigmaleerie would it be spurned?

Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:-
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 20 Apr 05 - 12:51 PM

Only if yir whigmaleerie wis tapsalteerie, and ye huv fernitickles oan yer cheeks.
G

Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:-
From: GUEST,Skipy
Date: 20 Apr 05 - 05:46 PM

borborygm.
Skipy