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Discussion Topic  RE: An aptronym? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by tsuwm
from the better late then never dept... aptronym vs. aptonym? Washington Post?? Gene Weingarten: Oh......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Incommodating Eponyms (in The Vocabulary Forum) by tsuwm
regarding crapper: snopes had some things to say regarding the ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Jane Austen #3 (in The Vocabulary Forum) by tsuwm
>strong negative sense I don't entirely agree; sedulous merely adds a more persistent shading, w......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Bizarre etymologies (in The Vocabulary Forum) by tsuwm
a napron <> an apron this sort of "false division" is known linguistically as metanalysis....
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Discussion Topic  epicaricacy reredux (in Potpourri) by tsuwm
I uncovered this today via a referral: (there's a word for that?) ......
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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. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: An aptronym? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by tsuwm
> putting "aptronym" into Google gives you 4 references (Grandiloquent Online, Forthrights Phront......
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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 ......
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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 "......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Griefers (in Questions & Answers about Words) by tsuwm
a griefer is (originally) an online gaming version of a troll. wider usage became inevitable. "The ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Deadlihood (in Potpourri) by tsuwm
two things: 1) deadlihood = deadlihead 2) deadlihood is not only obs., but rare; i.e., the the OED o......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Scintillating (in Potpourri) by tsuwm
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Discussion Topic  RE: Inaugural Poem (in The Written Word) by tsuwm
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Discussion Topic  RE: Words of Emotion (in The Vocabulary Forum) by tsuwm
(I know it matters to you not one whit, but) just so you know that you're not alone in this sort of ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: The (in Questions & Answers about Words) by tsuwm
this may be an example of cart before horse; that is, Booba *sounds blobby due to previous exposure ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Irony (in Questions & Answers about Words) by tsuwm
I tend to agree with Shu (although I'd say the parallel construct is hypocrisy)....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Hero (in Questions & Answers about Words) by tsuwm
the term anti-hero has been used in this context, but is still usually someone who is admired in spi......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Hand Waving/Foot Stamping (in Questions & Answers about Words) by tsuwm
I heard hand-waving used metaphorically quite often in a software engineering environment, as in 'hi......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Bob's your uncle (in Questions & Answers about Words) by tsuwm
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Discussion Topic  RE: Chumbolone (in Potpourri) by tsuwm
I think you've got something circular going on there, as the DTD cites the ......
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