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| utranslatable words redux (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words Who was chicken and who wasn't about Chicken (in Wordplay) by GeoffNot everybody checkened out and submitted limericks Here they are: 1: I was writing a novel ‘b...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay Kamala (in Potpourri) by GeoffI sure hope none of the MAGOT types have read Siddhartha. Tampon Tim is OK; he rendered a needed se...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Limerick destination: Chicken (in Wordplay) by GeoffChicken is a little town in Alaska. You get to be a cacciatore* and hunt for a limerick * Hunter ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay Limerick game: BURTON (in Wordplay) by haberdasherI offer you the town of BURTON. There's one in Texas, and I'm sure there are others floating arou...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay Things that aren't poems... (in The Written Word) by BobHaleSo then, here's a question. Are the following extracts poems or not? Discuss. 1. Translated from J...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word Community Post (in Potpourri) by KallehSince we no longer have a Community section like we used to have, I'll put this here. I miss that s...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Next destination: KENT (in Word Games) by haberdasherThat's KENT as in Clark, or in low-tar, low-taste cigarettes, or it's impossible to get here from Br...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Word Games KENNT - the limericks (I know, I know) (in Wordplay) by haberdasherI think that's about all we're going to collect from KENT, so here they are: A. I once saw the Dutc...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay New definitions of old words make it into the dictionary (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Geoff...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum “I am the very model of….l (in Wordplay) by shufitz...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay Is he really typical? (in Wordplay) by BobHaleQuestion for whichever American friends are still around. I have watched a number of videos reactin...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay Plus ça change . . . (in The Written Word) by shufitzTho picture claims 2021, Ogden Nash's poem below claims much earlier, and I very much agree. ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word Andragogy (in Questions & Answers about Words) by KallehI am working on a national group where we are trying to come up with standards for nursing graduates...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words Well, duhhhhh... (in The Written Word) by GeoffFrom the local rag: Man charged in triple killing now accused of making death threats... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word And what exactly, is that? (in Potpourri) by BobHaleHere's a vocabulary question. A menu from a local restaurant was recently put through my letter box...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Limerick game: MAINE (in Wordplay) by haberdasherAh, yes. A next destination is needed. Lessee, now. It was Alan J Lerner who wrote "The Rain in Sp...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay Lay/lie (in Questions & Answers about Words) by GeoffFrom an on-line report of a stranded airliner: "A viral video shared by a stranded passenger showed...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words Fear of palindromes (in Wordplay) by Geoffaibohphobia It's for real! Coined in 1977.... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay Favourite fact from "No Such Thing As A Fish" (in Potpourri) by BobHaleHeard today on the final episode of the year of the No Such Thing As A Fish podcast. The word "loan...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri For Those Still Here (in Potpourri) by BobHaleSeason's Greetings For those few still around to see it, here is my most recent Christmas poem whic...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Time to admit the facts? (in Word Games) by BobHaleI have been off line for two weeks and in that time there have been no new posts here at all. Isn't ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Word Games This would go in the Community Forum if it hadn't disappeared (in Potpourri) by BobHaleFour days and four minutes from now I will get into a taxi to take me to the airport to leave China....... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Amboise limericks (in Wordplay) by Geoff1. An epicure born in Amboise Fancied berries, preferring ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay Limerick Game: Amboise (in Wordplay) by GeoffLet's travel to France for the next location: ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay York, the voting place (in Wordplay) by haberdasher1 A naked pole dancer of York Once twisted and spun with such torque That the pole came unpegged And...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay Correct me if I'm wrong, but... (in Potpourri) by BobHaleFrom an ad for dental adhesive... Our ultimate adhesive cream 10x stronger hold* *vs no adhesive ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Amish country Limerick (in Wordplay) by haberdasherOK. Having been declared Victor By Acclimation (...er, default...) I shall invoke the KISS principl...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay A new word? (in Wordplay) by GeoffIs there a new limerick location yet? Perhaps one that I can rhyme?... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay If you hadn't nailed it to the perch... (in Wordplay) by BobHale...the limerick game would be pushing up the daisies. I doesn’t matter if it’s Vegas or Streatham L...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay Red Riding Hood (in The Written Word) by shufitzOn FB, Bob has published a poetic take-off on the Red Riding Hood tale. I suppose it’s adequate to ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word Limerick Game (Not Las Vegas) : Streatham (in Wordplay) by BobHalePronunciation guide - it is an English place name and would rhyme with “let ‘em” or “get ‘em” etc Y...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay Books that should have been movies. (in Potpourri) by BobHaleI was listening to an interview where the interviewee mentioned EE “Doc” Smith and it made me think ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri It’s been a long time since anyone mentioned apostrophes... (in The Written Word) by BobHale... but this post that I saw made me shudder ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word It's from Focks, so probably fake news (in Potpourri) by Geoff"Alligator spotted roaming Florida city's underground stormwater pipes with robotic camera" Who kne...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri POLL: KEY WEST (in Wordplay) by bethree51.A vacation in lovely Key West Is for feeling exceedingly stressed It will all melt away On the...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay Limerick Game:Las Vegas (in Wordplay) by BobHaleWe have probably done it before but let’s have Las Vegas purely because I was reading one of my old ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay YouTube comment (in The Written Word) by BobHaleJust watched a video about Elon Musk and Twitter. When it was finished I glanced through the comment...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word For those not on FB (in The Written Word) by BobHaleAnswers: A Surrealist’s Smorgasbord I was playing with an online AI and I asked it to produce a lis...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word Nothing to do with language but (in Potpourri) by BobHaleI have what will probably strike you as a weird question. When you close your eyes and try to visual...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Link the Lyrics (in Word Games) by wordcrafterA game: Post a snippet of about four to eight lines of a song lyric. It should include a word or ph...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Word Games *** Words better known in their negative forms (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafterA man can unkempt or innocent, but can he be “kempt” or “nocent”? This week we’ll eyeball words of t...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum OBNUBILATED disobnubilated (in Word Games) by haberdasherSetting, I think, a new Wordcraft record for the longest time between posing a problem and posting t...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Word Games Cyril, Methodius, and Old Slavic (in Questions & Answers about Words) by GeoffA linguistic query: Where did these two Greek Orthodox monks do their translation into a Greek-base...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words Limerick Game: Key West (in Wordplay) by bethree5Well here's another two-parter with stress on second 'syllable' that is much easier to work than Sey...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay Another acronym query (in Questions & Answers about Words) by GeoffWhat do the various initials affixed to movie makers mean? I see CSA, ASC, and a bunch of others co...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words An even better translation fail (in Potpourri) by BobHaleAnother hilariously bad machine translation (at least I hope that’s what it is) in our local communi...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri NGO (in Questions & Answers about Words) by GeoffWhat's an NGO? It's a common acronym, but all I think of is "Non-Gonococcal Outbreak." I doubt tha...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words Can we push past the boring ones? (in Potpourri) by BobHaleI am in XiAn for a dental appointment again and took the metro yesterday where I was amused to hear ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Latin and Grek in biology (in Questions & Answers about Words) by GeoffWhile reading Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, I noticed that at one point she erroneousl...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words | » Refine Search » New Search |
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