The Word of the Day Thread
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@boner said in The Word of the Day Thread:
coup: coo
p
gauge:gawggay-juhFTFY
Though gauge I was a little uncertain how to phoneticise. It's two syllables, "gay" + a softish "j" sound.
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@izzion as in "engage". Of course, I know all this now because I'm mature and stuff.
@izzion said in The Word of the Day Thread:
"gay"
lol.
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@accalia said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
OOH! i know this! That would be the number four. i love how savoury it is with those bright overtones of a C major chord and the subtle hint of petrichor.
Where's the text in the onebox?
Petrichor is the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil.
Pet-tree-core
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Make (someone) less angry or hostile.
âthey attempted to placate the students with promisesâ
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@mikael_svahnberg Those NCOs should lighten up a bit
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@buddy said in You Might Be a SJW If...:
@the_quiet_one I recently found out that 'faggot' comes from the same Latin root as 'fascist' (late 13c., "bundle of twigs bound up," also fagald, faggald, from Old French fagot "bundle of sticks" (13c.), of uncertain origin, probably from Italian fagotto "bundle of sticks," diminutive of Vulgar Latin *facus, from Latin fascis "bundle of wood").
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@boner A 'faggot' is also a minced pork product popular in the north of England.
Basically, think oversized meatball in gravy.
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@raceprouk said in The Word of the Day Thread:
in the north of England.
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@zecc said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@heterodox said in The Word of the Day Thread:
ETA: I keep meaning to copy the pronunciation of these for those who have trouble with words they've only seen written. [an-tip-uh-dee-uh n]
TIL I've been pronouncing antipodes incorrectly. (rhyming with "bode")
But that is correct https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bode_plot
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My favorite word is 'fulsome', because it means either 'copious' or 'insincere', and a lot of people know only one of those meaningsâbut not the same one.
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@buddy said in The Word of the Day Thread:
a lot of people know only one of those meaningsâbut not the same one.
See also confabulation
- the act of confabulating; conversation; discussion.
- Psychiatry. the replacement of a gap in a person's memory by a falsification that he or she believes to be true.
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@buddy said in The Word of the Day Thread:
But that is correct https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bode_plot
It's pronounced an-TEE-puh-dees, I was pronouncing it un-tie-POE-ds.
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Frazil
Frazil ice is a collection of loose, randomly oriented needle-shaped ice crystals in water.
It would also the name of France and Brazil's lovechild.
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@zecc I link Brance, too, though.
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@boner said in The Word of the Day Thread:
It's not immediately obvious. Words I got wrong until I heard them:
militia: milli-tee-ah
albeit: all-beet
hyperbole: hyper-ball
coup: coop
gauge: gawgThe problem with literacy: You read words you've never heard spoken.
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@boner said in The Word of the Day Thread:
It's not immediately obvious. Words I got wrong until I heard them:
militia: milli-tee-ah
albeit: all-beet
hyperbole: hyper-ball
coup: coop
gauge: gawgYou know, someone who doesn't know better may come to believe
you.that's how they are pronounced.
You may or may not want that.Totally misinterpreted you there.
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OK, here's one for all the logophiles out there:
I'm looking for a word that begins with R, that means either "awesome" or "improved", and isn't some obscure thing a light-year beyond the average person's vocabulary.
Anyone got any ideas?
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@masonwheeler refine / refined?
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@boner Hmm... no. "Refine" to me means more along the lines of "removing impurities" than "adding new things."
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@masonwheeler revamp is to improve but doesn't really relate to "awesome". Are you doing a crossword?
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@chozang said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@boner said in The Word of the Day Thread:
"The name is from Serendip, an old name for Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka), from Arabic Sarandib, from Sanskrit Simhaladvipa 'Dwelling-Place-of-Lions Island.' "
I'd guess the "lion" part is "seren"? As also in "Serengeti"? ???
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@djls45 said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@chozang said in The Word of the Day Thread:
"The name is from Serendip, an old name for Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka), from Arabic Sarandib, from Sanskrit Simhaladvipa 'Dwelling-Place-of-Lions Island.' "
I'd guess the "lion" part is "seren"? As also in "Serengeti"? ???
No, the lion part is "simha". The language there is still known as Sinhala, and the people there are known as Sinhalese. They believe they are descended from a lion. Their flag (one of the few national flags to contain a real picture) has a lion.
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@boner said in The Word of the Day Thread:
Are you doing a crossword?
No, I'm trying to invent an acronym. I've got all the rest of the letters worked out, but not the R. :P
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@raceprouk said in The Word of the Day Thread:
It's the word in English with the most definitions.
"Run" might give it a run for its money.
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@boner said in The Word of the Day Thread:
It's not immediately obvious. Words I got wrong until I heard them:
militia:
milli-tee-ahmill-ISH-uh
albeit:all-beetall-BEE-it
hyperbole:hyper-ballhy-PER-bowl-ee
coup:coopkoo
gauge:gawggayjFTFY
Fake edit: Oh, wait! You were listing your MISpronunciations for them before you learned the correct way.
Real edit:
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@masonwheeler a backronym? I haven't seen anything sexy enough for that, just the workmanlike reworked and rejuvenate etc.
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@izzion said in The Word of the Day Thread:
a softish "j" sound.
zh vs. dzh ?
gay-juh
I've noticed that a lot of ESL/ELL folks tend to voice after a final stop when they speak English, so, for example, "stop" becomes "stoppuh" and "treat" becomes "treetteh".
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@masonwheeler said in The Word of the Day Thread:
OK, here's one for all the logophiles out there:
I'm looking for a word that begins with R, that means either "awesome" or "improved", and isn't some obscure thing a light-year beyond the average person's vocabulary.
Anyone got any ideas?
Renovated? Redesigned? Revived? Renewed?
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@djls45 said in The Word of the Day Thread:
I've noticed that a lot of ESL/ELL folks tend to voice after a final stop when they speak English, so, for example, "stop" becomes "stoppuh" and "treat" becomes "treetteh".
I haven't noticed that too much, but mentioning "stop" makes me think of native Spanish-speaking ESLs.
In Spanish, there is no case in which a word starts with an S and a second consonant, but many cases in which a word begins "E S consonant". So it's not something that many native Spanish speakers can pronounce right; they'll say "esstop" instead of "stop" every time. Once you hear it enough, it becomes a linguistic stereotype, like the better-known R/L confusion among Asians.
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@masonwheeler said in The Word of the Day Thread:
begins with R, that means either "awesome" or "improved"
Radical?
Reinvented?
Renovated?
I dunno the rest of the acronym to advise more
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Holy crap, I nailed the spelling of "rambunctious" on first try.
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@masonwheeler said in The Word of the Day Thread:
a word that begins with R, that means either "awesome" or "improved"
Resplendent? Not quite a match, but depending on the rest of the acronym it could work
Ravishing? Radiant? Rapturous?
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The day after a big bender when you're not sure if your still drunk or if you're hungover.
Although I'm definitely still just drunk.
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Which in a better world would have been pronounced "ass-cult", and how cool isn't that!
About the definition; I have encountered it in pedagogics, when you listen to another teacher's lecture in order to learn from each other.
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@mikael_svahnberg Wiktionary has no definition, but they have a link to Webster's 1913!
That's not helpful.
Now I feel like you're fucking with me Webster.
I guess it's not so bad when you're looking at a dictionary and they're all on the page right next to each other.
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Autoantonym: a word that has two opposite meanings
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Here's a word I saw in an exam I am marking right now:
samlier
as in "Product A and B is same as product C, but A is samlier."
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As per Dr. Sheldon Cooper's Fun with Flags.
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