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Discussion Topic  RE: Losers of Interest (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafter
From Oxford to Cambridge … Town-gown relationships are often strained. In 1615, when King James II......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Losers of Interest (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafter
Yesterday we saw "twerp". Today we see another eponym from Oxford's academia, a much older one. ......
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Discussion Topic  Losers of Interest (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafter
English has lots of contemptuous nouns naming "loser" personalities of various sorts. This week we'......
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Discussion Topic  Eponyms Redux (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafter
Let's return to a favorite theme that we haven't done for a while: eponyms, or words from people's n......
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Discussion Topic  Recent Terms (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafter
New terms are constantly being created. There are people who track such things, and people who cull ......
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Discussion Topic  Words I've Recently Run Into (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafter
(Let no anti-preposition-ender decree that this theme should be titled "Words Into Which I've Recent......
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Discussion Topic  2009 Scripps Spelling Bee (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafter
Every year at about this time, the Scripps Spelling Bee presents oddball or obscure words we'd other......
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Discussion Topic  C'est What (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafter
Your wordcrafter, vacationing in Toronto this week, has been gratified to discover an excellent pub ......
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Discussion Topic  Miscellaneous Words (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafter
Apologies for my absence. As a partial atonement I'll give you a word which, although tremendously i......
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Discussion Topic  Less-known Counterparts (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafter
Sometimes a negative form of a word is much more familiar than its positive form. (We might can cal......
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Discussion Topic  Superness (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafter
This week, a theme of 'super' words. ......
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Discussion Topic  Unexpected Etymologies (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafter
Back from an absence. Did you miss your words? This week we'll present some with interesting and per......
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Discussion Topic  Dating Techiques (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafter
No, this is not a theme of techniques to use in your social life. We'll venture into science, and lo......
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Discussion Topic  There's a name that body-thing?! (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafter
Last week's theme of "Unusual names for things" ended with a word composed of two body parts, "armse......
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Discussion Topic  There's a name for THAT?! (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafter
This week we'll smile at some names for ordinary items that you probably didn't realize even had a n......
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Discussion Topic  More Portmanteau Words (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafter
A while back we introduced the concept of ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Burial Sites (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafter
"Ashes to ashes; dust to dust." To remember today's ash-word, ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Burial Sites (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafter
The most interesting form of today's word is its adjective form ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Burial Sites (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafter
We just talked of ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Burial Sites (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafter
Our last quote, from Edgar Allan Poe's ......
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