Authorise is ecxactly what I had in mind.

There's another possibility, but I don't like it: thioureas. It's too technical, unless you're an organic chemist. Even then it's too technical.

Okay, you're up.

And, your bonus Jumble word for the day:

QUEENLISASAIDP

I hadn't heard of "thioureas," though I may have just forgotten it. Yet, I did note the word "urea." Curiosity question: do you write "authorise," or did you just spell it that way to throw us?

PERUSE

SESQUIPEDALIAN

I generally spell "authorize" myself, but "thesauri" has an S, not a Z, and so when I added the O it had to be "authorise". I didn't use Eastpondian spelling to mislead; you gave it to me that way!

BONGOBHIL (think Emerson)

[This message was edited by haberdasher on Tue Dec 30th, 2003 at 14:51.]

note to RE: you got there an hour before I did - (1637 to my 1733, according to the board clock)

or- maybe - Kalleh, did you get them from RE ?

Unless RE deleted a post, I am totally confused, per usual! I didn't get anything from RE.

Hobgoblin

EASERFI

quote:

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Originally posted by Richard English:
But it should not. That it is thus inacurately used proves (if proof be needed) that there are those around who will never use a short word if they can find a sesquipedalian one.

According to Oxford, peruse means "to read or study, especially thoroughly or carefully". And I believe Oxford in preference to the eponymous Carolyn.

Richard English

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This post in the egregious thread was the first recent apearance of "sesquipedalian" in conjunction with "peruse," and I wondered if that wasn't the source of your Bonus Jumble. Didn't know whether he got it from you, or you got it from him, or simply great minds are thinking alike.!

Happy New Year, all!

DUALSLANGNEY
(I know, it's cheating, but still...)

[This message was edited by haberdasher on Wed Dec 31st, 2003 at 10:26.]

quote:

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This post in the egregious thread was the first recent apearance of "sesquipedalian" in conjunction with "peruse," and I wondered if that wasn't the source of your Bonus Jumble.

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Ohhhhh! A little dense here in Kalleh-land! Yes, that most definitely was a piece of cross-threading. Love that word "sesquipedalian," though!

Auld Lang Syne, and a little history of it.

GMEHNPACA

Happy New Year!

(breathing real real fast = "way-hyperpnea" ?)

IRUSTOLEON

(Catch Google's seasonal logo while it's still there!)

My New Years RESOLUTION list's evolved to only one.

===> To convert my List of Things To Do to my List of Things I've Done.


WINDTIMER

QUINTESSENTIAL


NEATNESSCLINIQUE

Sesqiucentennial

DEAD-NFOOLISH

I've been working on it, so far to no avail. Is the hyphen just an added delicacy?

Old-fashioned

GABRYOUDD

quote:

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POSTED BY: arnie on
Fri Dec 12, 2003 06:31

IRTPUNTER

interrupt

DRABGOUDY

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(Glad to see I'm not the only one who forgets himself sometimes )

bodyguard

COWERS

labile
(also Belial)

SUITES

TISSUE

((( LIABLE )))

EVADERS

[Sigh. I thought I had a good one, but then it looked familiar, so I Searched for it and sure enough I did that one already. Last April 19 or something. Oh well. Sigh.]

tiniestrope

[I found one that was funny, albeit a bit risque; "pioneer's ----!" Sorry, but I am a bit adolescent at heart. )

SLABTAKBLE

rearrangements

SOVERDRIP

Hoo, Jerry, that was a good anagram!

Adolescence

TEILSYIN

senelity

teinsytin

Edit: that's what I get for rushing - uncaught careless errors. senility, of course.

[This message was edited by haberdasher on Wed Jan 7th, 2004 at 19:09.]

intensity

STEINERY (calm down, now, Richard )

I am not sure because I don't understand how that might affect Richard.

Serenity Now! [from Seinfeld! ]

MOWSTRONS

SNOWSTORM

GNUDIST is all we had here. I'm happy to say.

(I think Richard was to have been made eager by simply contemplating the place that makes the vessels that hold the beer - the STEINERY.

Although my first thought would be of the place that makes the fancy pianos...)

Dusting !!

UNREADNEWS

UNANSWERED


partlyodie
preydotial
playeridot
ditropaley
editorplay
apteroidly
lydioptera
pyretodial...
PRODAYLITE

(forgive me any careless spelling errors; I mean well)

[Ahhh, now I understand the "steinery" reference.]


GARTHUD

draught

LACELARLTS

SALTCELLAR



TINMANGOTH

Nottingham

FISHFRE

slaughterhouse

NILEGINGATH

LITERALIST

GALENAKIMCHI

could it be...

Lake Michigan ?

CARGOPEIGH

NOCCITET

ICYCLEDANOPE

Ros, it is so good to see you here again!

encyclopedia

(Forgot about that final "a" -- I was looking for "-paedia"!)


I'm not sure about this one:

BIMYTAIGU

irresolute

SAINTSNES

Hmm, Arnie, we haven't been that mean to you, have we?

Louselumfil

KNEECHOUSLY