Wordcraft Home Page    Wordcraft Community Home Page    Forums    Search    Search Results
Page 1 ... 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 
Go
New
Find
Tools
Search Results: (334 matches) New Search Login/Join 

Discussion Topic  RE: "Martha Stewart Words" (in The Vocabulary Forum) by tsuwm
there are of course lots of citations without the qualifier; to wit, "How would'st thou haue payed M......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum

Discussion Topic  RE: Least favorite words? (in Potpourri) by tsuwm
>I hate the sound of [feckless]. what the feck are you talking about?! (this by way of saying, ......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri

Discussion Topic  RE: "Martha Stewart Words" (in The Vocabulary Forum) by tsuwm
yes, the definitions of confuse and conflate are often conflated, ......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum

Discussion Topic  RE: Encomium (in Questions & Answers about Words) by tsuwm
verb form of encomium: eulogize, extol but seriously, encomiate and encomionize are both marked "O......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words

Discussion Topic  RE: An aptronym? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by tsuwm
nuts, let's just agree to call it "nominative determinism" and be done with it. ......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words

Discussion Topic  RE: An aptronym? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by tsuwm
> putting "aptronym" into Google gives you 4 references (Grandiloquent Online, Forthrights Phront......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words

Discussion Topic  RE: An aptronym? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by tsuwm
The term aptronym was allegedly coined by the American newspaper columnist Franklin P. Adams, by an ......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words

Discussion Topic  RE: Viral Language (in Questions & Answers about Words) by tsuwm
boy, howdy! I guess it must be true: ......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words

Discussion Topic  RE: Eristic (in Questions & Answers about Words) by tsuwm
>Given to or characterized by disputatious, often specious argument. note the key word "often" ......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words

Discussion Topic  RE: Verbifying Revisited, Part 2 (in Questions & Answers about Words) by tsuwm
>>What makes a word a word? Because 2 dictionaries carry "incent" and "inc......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words

Discussion Topic  RE: Sheer Enlightenment (in The Written Word) by tsuwm
......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word

Discussion Topic  RE: diamerdis (in Questions & Answers about Words) by tsuwm
ah, remindful of ye olde Reverse Midas Touch®*. I think I'll just reply discreetly to this query and......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words

Discussion Topic  diamerdis (in Questions & Answers about Words) by tsuwm
I received a query about this word, which shows up via Google® mostly in the intro to Ammon Shea's "......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words

Discussion Topic  RE: Words from The Da Vinci Code (in The Vocabulary Forum) by tsuwm
......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum

Discussion Topic  RE: Words from The Da Vinci Code (in The Vocabulary Forum) by tsuwm
quickly, it seems the word should be ......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum

Discussion Topic  RE: People and how words affect them (in The Vocabulary Forum) by tsuwm
I think a person such as this is more likely to be someone you'd hire to tell Gaelic folktales (the ......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum

Discussion Topic  RE: What do you call....? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by tsuwm
......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words

Discussion Topic  RE: People and how words affect them (in The Vocabulary Forum) by tsuwm
......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum

Discussion Topic  RE: People and how words affect them (in The Vocabulary Forum) by tsuwm
......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum

Discussion Topic  RE: People and how words affect them (in The Vocabulary Forum) by tsuwm
well, dissuade works pretty well; or you can exhort to inaction. -ron obvious ......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum


» Refine Search
» New Search

  Powered by Social Strata Page 1 ... 11 12 13 14 15 16 17  

Wordcraft Home Page    Wordcraft Community Home Page    Forums    Search    Search Results

Copyright © 2002-12