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Stonehenge (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafter one chosen to receive the benedictions of the bluestones? [ellipses omitted)Sidenote: The bluestones... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum Words from Erroneous Science (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafter. David R. Montgomery, King of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run of Salmon (2004) (ellipses omitted)In pre ... . National Geographic, August, 2009 (ellipses omitted)smolt a young salmon when, at about age two... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum Example and Counterexample (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitzMaking verbs out of the noun 'example':When you present an example of a generalization, you exemplify it.When you refute it with a counter-example, do you counterexemplify it?I never thought about it until reading today's Wall Street Journal. I quote at length (ellipses omitted), because the... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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The Common Man (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafterso many interesting quotes today that I cannot stop at just one or two. (ellipses omitted).Admiration ... . They are scum. W. Somerset Maugham (Sunday Times, Dec. 25, 1955); ellipses omittedNobody thinks in... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum Lesser-Known Counterparts of Familiar Words (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafterPoint Story, American Enterprise, July, 1999 (ellipses omitted)While self-fictionalization brings about... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum
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Interesting Words from Recent Reading (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafterthe climate across the entire planet. National Geographic magazine, August 2009 (ellipses omitted... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum
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Interesting Words from Recent Reading (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafter, August, 2009 (ellipses omitted)... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum
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Weird Science (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafter(2000?) (ellipses omitted)... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum Less-known Counterparts (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafterand abiding. 1897; ellipses omitted. Well worth reading in full... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum Words better known as negatives (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafterA bit from Comedy Central of last March (ellipses omitted) inspires our theme (you can see video or transcript).. . .Remember how [Florida and Michigan] held their Democratic primaries early, ended up having all of their delegates stripped and not having their votes count? Funny story. Now that... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum Miscellaneous Words Again (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcraftermorphodite a hermaphrodite (later usage: a homosexual person, esp. one showing attributes thought to be characteristic of the opposite sex; or, a transvestite)In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee's young protagonists create a hermaphrodite snowman/snowwoman. (ellipses omitted). . ."Are we gonna... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum
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Gulliver's Travels (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafterpart of Hutchins' 20-year tenure. Chicago Tribune, Aug 27, 1989 (ellipses omitted)How sad that such... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum
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Recent Terms (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafterthan the Internet, Aug. 30, 2008 (ellipses omitted)... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum
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Animal Words (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafter] Court of Appeals, in Hoctor v. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (1996) (ellipses omitted)... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum Animal Words (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcraftersurvival of many species. New York Times, July 29, 2003 (ellipses omitted)Large-scale, high-seas drift... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum Unexpected Etymologies (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafter, Jan. 5, 2009 (ellipses omitted)... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum Book Reviews: Fertile Ground for Word-Hunting (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafterDisruption by Larry Downes, in Wall Street Journal, Oct. 13, 2009 (ellipses omitted)prelapsarian... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum
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Unexpected Etymologies (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafterChronicle, July 15, 2008 (ellipses omitted)"Sackbut" was also used to pun on "a butt [cask] of sack... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum There's a name that body-thing?! (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafternews weekly of Northern California, Oct. 13, 1995 (ellipses omitted)New jaw fossils might suggest a... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum
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