Words and Names, v. 2011
Words & names you ♥ or just want to talk about.
Continued from v. 2009.
Date: January 16, 2011
Categories: The Universe, Things We like
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Errata
in January 17th, 2011 @ 01:46I love finding words which are really fun to say. Examples:
Artichoke. Cow. (Enunciate it extremely clearly, and sort of stretch the ‘ow’). Marshmallow. Potato. Spluge (Which isn’t a real word, but should be).
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in January 17th, 2011 @ 05:23“Splurge” is a word, however — and a top-notch one, I think. (So is “top-notch.”).
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Errata
in January 17th, 2011 @ 08:44Oh yes, so it is. How silly of me.
That’s what comes when a random syllable pops into your head and you don’t take the time to look it up in a dictionary.
Or when you’re typing at well past midnight.
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Errata
in March 4th, 2011 @ 00:40And I clearly need to read things more clearly. Or remember what I wrote originally. Or something. *head desk*
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Axa
in January 17th, 2011 @ 01:57cellar door
/obligatory
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POSOC
in January 17th, 2011 @ 10:52IDGI.
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Axa
in January 17th, 2011 @ 11:23Tolkien purportedly said that it was the most beautiful phrase in the English language. Also, Donnie Darko.
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POSOC
in January 17th, 2011 @ 11:28I see.
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Choklit Orange
in January 17th, 2011 @ 02:43Beige. Which to me is actually a very red word.
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LittleBasementKitten
in January 17th, 2011 @ 06:43Foofle. I was off one letter from Google, and that’s what happened. What should it mean?
@Choklit Orange: Are you a synthe…synth…person who has synthesis?
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Selenium the Quafflebird
in January 17th, 2011 @ 07:15Synthesis?
I think you mean synesthesia?
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LittleBasementKitten
in January 17th, 2011 @ 07:50Pff. Yes. *headwall*
Anyways, are you? Because that would be awesome if you were.
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FantasyFan?!?!
in January 17th, 2011 @ 19:06Having synthesis would be pretty cool as well, though. Being able to combine together all kinds of different things into even more awesome things.Maybe you could combine with them as well, and become some superhuman-awesome thing combination.
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Selenium the Quafflebird
in January 17th, 2011 @ 07:18Syzygy. It’s so much fun to say, especially when you say it quickly.
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KaiYves- Go, STS-133!
in January 17th, 2011 @ 10:12Yes.
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small but fierce
in January 30th, 2011 @ 20:42Have you seen 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee?
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Selenium the Quafflebird
in February 6th, 2011 @ 22:13No, I haven’t. What’s the connection?
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small but fierce
in February 19th, 2011 @ 23:33It’s the opening line and the start of Mrs. Peretti’s flashback.
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Randomostiy 101
in January 17th, 2011 @ 11:21Cheese is fun to say. So is zit. And starring. And onomatopoeia. And Australopithecus. And Cnidarian.
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Cat's Eye
in January 17th, 2011 @ 11:26Quark. Quark quark quark!
Reference, anyone?
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Snow Castle
in January 17th, 2011 @ 12:52Part of various usernames of mine?
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Tesseract
in January 17th, 2011 @ 14:40I love Hobbes!
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Sudo
in January 17th, 2011 @ 17:29Castle- Nay, Calvin and Hobbes.
Also, the Tremendous Space Kablooie!
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KaiYves- Go, STS-133!
in January 17th, 2011 @ 18:00On that note “I just like to say smock. Smock smock smock smock SMOCK!”
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Sudo
in January 17th, 2011 @ 18:29Don’t Knock My Smock or I’ll Clean Your Clock!
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oobatooba
in January 18th, 2011 @ 17:40It has actually been scientifically proven that the “ock” “uck” and “ack” sounds are the most funny in the English language. This is what makes words like “smock, quack, duck” and “cluck” funny.
love Calvin and Hobbes, both of whose names I love.
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Sudo
in February 4th, 2011 @ 20:29How did they prove it?
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Cat's Eye
in January 17th, 2011 @ 18:03Scientific progress goes “boink”?
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Tesseract
in January 17th, 2011 @ 19:07Sombrero. What fun is it being cool if you can’t wear a sombrero?
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shadowfire
in January 17th, 2011 @ 13:15Susurrus. Cavort. Soliloquy.
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Rosebud2
in February 24th, 2011 @ 18:53I distinctly recall hearing the word “susurrus” refferred to in a book someplace and I can’t remember what it was argh. It might’ve been… The Wee Free Men? By Terry Pratchett?
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shadowfire
in February 24th, 2011 @ 23:35Tiffany Aching was rather enamored with it.
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vanillabean3.141
in January 17th, 2011 @ 15:13Splendor.
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Mikazuki
in January 17th, 2011 @ 19:54Haberdashery. I love that word. Zeppelin. It sounds so…zippy, I dunno. I love spelling words slightly differently and using them for names. Whether these are good names or not remains to be seen. But Crimsyn is rather nice, don’t you think?
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Bibliophile
in January 17th, 2011 @ 22:21I love the sound of pickelhaube, pfeffernusse, floccinaucinaucinihilipilificate, higgledy-piggledy, and einkorn–and cnidnarian is nice, too, though I’d never thought of it while trying to find favorite words. I also love neologism for its double meanings.
I really love etymology! It’s really, really fascinating.
The word crotchet is very convenient when you get a brooch version (or 4) of an eccentric interest (like tardigrades!).
I also love the names Lucy and Lysander.
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shadowfire
in January 17th, 2011 @ 22:28PFEFFERNUSSE!
Hem. Sorry.
Tardigrade is also an excellent word.
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Bibliophile
in April 28th, 2011 @ 21:59I prefer the term ‘moss piglet.’ I’m not sure why I never use it, actually…
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Choklit Orange
in January 22nd, 2011 @ 06:58Lorean and Lysander Lovegood…
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Bibliophile
in February 25th, 2011 @ 11:09Wouldn’t they be Lorcan and Lysander Scamander?
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oobatooba
in January 18th, 2011 @ 17:34Tingo: one who acquires all the objects in a friends house that they desire by borrowing and never returning.
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KaiYves- Go, STS-133!
in January 18th, 2011 @ 19:50“Terraqueous”. Especially if you stretch out the syllables like Carl Sagan.
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speller73
in January 18th, 2011 @ 22:23Ooh, one of these threads! I used to post on these things like crazy!
Anyways…
Sesquipedalian
Schadenfreude
Bewusstseinslage
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Mago Berry
in January 20th, 2011 @ 15:27WWWWWIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*toomanyexclamationpoints*
Eh, ’tis my word. It means the essence of Muserlyness.
And P.S.: Riboflavin, when pronounced like rib-oh-flav-in instead of the normal (and thus worse) way, ribe-oh-flay-vin, is extremely awesome. Try it, and thou shalt be addicted.
All right! Names!
I like making up names off the top of my head, or thinking about them really hard and coming up with something that sounds nothing like the original.
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LittleBasementKitten
in January 20th, 2011 @ 16:34You misspelled it. “weird”, not “wierd”. English is a stupid language.
Schmooze. Say it.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in January 20th, 2011 @ 16:52Mago Berry says that she has respelled it. See
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=5118#comment-393991
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LittleBasementKitten
in January 20th, 2011 @ 17:50Oh, okay.
English is still a dumb language. There’s rules, but too many exceptions. There might as well not be any rules at all! Latin, now that’s much better.
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Randomosity 101
in January 21st, 2011 @ 10:34I completely agree. Latin is so much more straightforward. I fear the problem with grammatical consistency in the English language may come from the number of languages from which words were adapted or taken in as they were.
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Piggy
in January 21st, 2011 @ 16:00The two of you may change your mind on Latin as you study it more. Exceptions to the rules arise which make no sense whatsoever. A writer can, say, use an accusative as an ablative if it sounds better. Or leave out any word and hope the reader figures it out. And did you know that there are more than just six cases of nouns?
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LittleBasementKitten
in January 22nd, 2011 @ 08:09Okay, but I still think it’s better than English. What’s an ablative anyways? I haven’t gotten that far yet, we’ve only just learned imperfect tense.
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Piggy
in January 22nd, 2011 @ 12:25You’ve learned the imperfect tense before you even know your noun endings?!
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Ebeth
in January 22nd, 2011 @ 12:32so did we…and so did others i know who took latin at different schools. i feel it’s not that uncommon
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Bibliophile
in May 31st, 2012 @ 13:01I didn’t, so apparently, not everyone does.
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Randomosity 101
in January 22nd, 2011 @ 09:18I have completed only one Latin course, but I did already know that. I still find the exceptions of less annoyance. Perhaps that is personal preference, but they seem to be less frequent and more logical than those in English to me. And if a word is left out, one can generally understand the implication by looking at the rest of the sentence, or looking at the sentence before it. And English has similar words dropped out, especially in spoken dialogue.
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oobatooba
in January 21st, 2011 @ 07:24I before E except after C is a common mnemonic, but it doesn’t work for weird. Weired, huh?
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LittleBasementKitten
in January 22nd, 2011 @ 08:07And ancient. And species. And lots of others.
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Mikazuki
in January 22nd, 2011 @ 14:31*coughcoughthoseareafterC,LBKcoughcough*
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Radiant_Darkness
in January 22nd, 2011 @ 15:18The rule is: I before E except after C. Those are I before E and after C.
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LittleBasementKitten
in January 22nd, 2011 @ 16:05Thanks. *glomp*
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Mikazuki
in January 22nd, 2011 @ 17:41Sorry LBK, my brain’s is not being good today.
That rhymed…
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Agent Lightning
in May 31st, 2012 @ 15:02Science!
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Ducky
in January 20th, 2011 @ 17:48Ukelele. Scribe. Decapitate.
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shadowfire
in January 20th, 2011 @ 21:46We are examining blephorisma(-ae? Not sure) in bio. Blephorisma is an excellent word.
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oobatooba
in January 21st, 2011 @ 07:29Defenestration is a lovely word, and it just showed up in my favorite comic
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KaiYves- Go, STS-133!
in January 21st, 2011 @ 17:29Ha ha, yes! Defenestrate sounds so much fun.
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LittleBasementKitten
in January 22nd, 2011 @ 09:25According to my dictionary, “defenestrate” means to throw something or someone out of a window. So yes, it does sound fun!
*defenestrates Kai*
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Koko's Apprentice (Save the Muse Scouts!)
in February 4th, 2011 @ 19:11*Defenestrates tau*
Fun word, yes
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oobatooba
in February 24th, 2011 @ 07:22*Defenestrates pie at random civilian
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SPOILER! SPOILER! OOTS SEMI SPOILER! SPOILER ALERT! OOTS SPOILER! ( THIS IS A SEMI SPOILER. IF YOU ACTUALLY READ OOTS AND HAVE NOT GOTTEN TO THIS POINT YOU MAY HAVE A FUNNY PART SPOILED, BUT IF YOU HAVE NEVER HEARD OF OOTS AND DON’T READ IT THAN YOU WILL NOT HAVE ANYTHING SPOILED FOR YOU)
Yes, and it’s even better when used in the line “Elan, I’m sorry for defenestrating your girlfriend, but…. I am your evil long lost dad.”
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Choklit Orange
in January 22nd, 2011 @ 07:01Pituitary. And skuttlebut. Skuttlebut is delightfully pirate.
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Mago Berry
in January 22nd, 2011 @ 08:01I’m glad the GAPAs caught that.
“Wierd” means, according to Mago Berry’s Dictionary of Randomness, “something that has a quality of abnormality, yet invokes awe in passersby, aka, weird, yet amazingly original.
Syn.: Random, weird, awesome, Muserly.
Ant.: Stupid, uncreative, straightforward, normal.
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Randomostiy 101
in January 22nd, 2011 @ 09:50Zing. Who doesn’t love the word “zing”? And mycorrhiza. And nudibranch. And astringent. And… Yeah, I think I’ll stop there.
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KaiYves- Go, STS-133!
in January 22nd, 2011 @ 16:07Nudibranch! Also, “macro” is another fun scuba-related word.
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Randomostiy 101
in January 23rd, 2011 @ 13:05Very much so!
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Raynpho
in February 5th, 2011 @ 17:47Hahah oh maan “nudibranch”
I- I can’t get over it. …… nudibranch
~so beautiful *tear*
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Sudo
in January 22nd, 2011 @ 11:36Octopodes. Especially because it’s pronounced ok-top-o-deez.
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Mikazuki
in January 22nd, 2011 @ 14:36l’anniversie (I’m not even going to attempt to spell that correctly…gah! French spelling!) and astrolabe. They’re both so fun to say.
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Bibliophile
in January 22nd, 2011 @ 19:28Sphygmomanometer!
Whatchamacallits is chock-full of wonderful names for ordinary things. There are dozens more that I could say right now, but it would take too long. I just bought it, and it’s really good.
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Bibliophile
in January 22nd, 2011 @ 22:01Actually, I just realized that I mean The Whatchamacallit, not Whatchamacallits. I must have been thinking of the Muse article.
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KaiYves- Go, STS-133!
in January 22nd, 2011 @ 19:42Whatsit.
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Bibliophile
in January 22nd, 2011 @ 19:53The device doctors use to measure your blood pressure
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Choklit Orange
in January 22nd, 2011 @ 19:55Heffalump.
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Koko's Apprentice
in January 26th, 2011 @ 15:05singing
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Bibliophile
in February 1st, 2011 @ 22:56Viscacha
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KaiYves- Go, STS-133!
in February 4th, 2011 @ 21:02Resonance.
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Unintended Pun
in February 6th, 2011 @ 14:54Favourite names:
Marcelas
Gretchen
Guillaume
Lukas
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Ducky
in February 6th, 2011 @ 23:04Twonk. It’s probably the best British slang insult ever.
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Koko's Apprentice
in February 7th, 2011 @ 12:35what does it mean?
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Ducky
in February 7th, 2011 @ 17:28A clueless person.
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Vendaval
in February 18th, 2011 @ 14:50Rabelaisian.
Found in a book on sea shanties, it refers to a 15th century French writer famous for his bawdy songs. As far as I can tell, it is unrelated to ‘rabble’.
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Pseudonym
in February 18th, 2011 @ 18:17Is anyone else mildly disturbed by how similar Bunnified and Bona Fide sound?
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Ducky
in February 19th, 2011 @ 14:28Yes.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in February 19th, 2011 @ 17:26“Bona fide” probably doesn’t sound similar when Piggy says it.
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Piggy
in February 19th, 2011 @ 17:53In good faith, it does not.
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POSOC
in February 19th, 2011 @ 19:05I see what you did there…
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Piggy
in February 19th, 2011 @ 23:08awesomeface.jpg
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POSOC
in February 20th, 2011 @ 00:20Hahahahahaha… what?
[PICTURE OF LARGE GREEN PEAR WITH MOUTH]
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Bibliophile
in February 18th, 2011 @ 22:00Erkling, floccinaucinihilipilification, chyme!
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Bibliophile
in February 19th, 2011 @ 11:16SFTDP, and I just realized that I already said floccinaucinihilipilificate, and I misspelled pfeffernuss, but agog, voortreker (Did I spell that right, or are there 2 Ks?), qiviut, tenebrionid, pediddle, tittle, dibble, tesserae!
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small but fierce
in February 19th, 2011 @ 17:45There are two K’s.
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Mikazuki
in February 19th, 2011 @ 13:47Bamboozle! Liquescent!
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Trojan Tiger
in February 19th, 2011 @ 14:21Doohickey, Thingamabob!
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Bibliophile
in February 19th, 2011 @ 15:16Katzenjammer, bibliotheca, bambino! Bibliophile! Xenomorphida, arctisconia!
What does your name mean (this is directed at everyone, not a specifc person)? My first name means pure in Greek, my middle name is Noble, and my last name means good in a language I don’t want to say in case any stalkers reading this speak it or decide to look it up. Unfortunately, this means my Quenya name is Man (Ara) Man…
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Mikazuki
in February 19th, 2011 @ 17:53Um, I think my first name, Kalie, means something like, “beloved” in Arabic. It is also a word for a…musical party(…? Something like that…) in Irish. An alternate spelling of my name is the Indian goddess of death, destruction, and creation, I believe.
My parents’ name choice comes form the Arabic meaning, though. (Who wouldn’t want to name their child after the Indian goddess of dead? )Erm…my middle name apparently means ‘twin’ although it’s my middle name because it was a surname of my grandmother so I found this out using Google, and I’m not positive this is correct.
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Ducky
in February 19th, 2011 @ 18:51My first name is Cara, “friend” in Gaelic.
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Princess_Magnolia
in February 20th, 2011 @ 16:42“Dear” in Italian. I don’t know what my name means, but Selene ( which is spelled differently ) was the goddess of the moon and a different identity of Artemis in Greek mythology.
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Ducky
in February 21st, 2011 @ 19:53Also, my middle name is Rose and I would be Liam if I was a boy.
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Lizzie
in February 19th, 2011 @ 22:19My first name is my grandmother’s anglicized name. My middle name means “peace” because I was born a few months after the end of the Gulf War. My other middle name is my mother’s last name, and it means Town Hall, and my last name means Oldfield.
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KaiYves- Go, STS-133!
in February 19th, 2011 @ 19:09Futhark.
Frequency.
Viscosity.
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Cat's Meow
in February 19th, 2011 @ 19:15My name means “Father in rejoicing” or “Father’s joy” in Hebrew. Hannah, my middle name, is also from Hebrew, and it means grace and favor.
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Cat's Eye
in February 19th, 2011 @ 19:51First name: Hannah. Means grace.
Middle name: Grace. Means, uh, grace.
Applause for redundancy, parentals.
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Pseudonym
in February 19th, 2011 @ 20:31Samisen
Quincux
Obloquy
Ophicleide
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Kokonilly
in February 19th, 2011 @ 22:22Names? My first name means “listener of God” and my second name means “famous warrior”.
Odd combination, if you ask me.
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Bibliophile
in February 19th, 2011 @ 22:33It sounds a lot like Joan of Arc to me.
Mellifluous, lugubrious, mnemonic.
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Kokonilly
in February 19th, 2011 @ 23:05Yeah, it sounds that way to me too.
I like masticating, even though it can easily be misinterpreted (as I found out when I used it at school).
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shadowfire
in February 22nd, 2011 @ 19:04My PE teacher in middle school always told us to “stop masticating” whenever he caught a kid chewing gum in class. Hilarity generally ensued.
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Bibliophile
in February 22nd, 2011 @ 20:39What can masticate be confused with? I ccan’t figure it out…
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Unintended Pun
in February 22nd, 2011 @ 21:00*pats on head*
You’ll find out when you’re older.
(then you’ll wish you didn’t find out)
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small but fierce
in February 22nd, 2011 @ 22:52That doesn’t help, UP. That’ll just send Bibliophile searching in the damp, cold recesses of the interwebs, where there are lots of corrupt websites to be found.
Short answer: a certain type of physical pleasure derived from self-stimulation.
CAKE THAT WAS AWKWARD
TIME TO BRING IN THE SQUID MULTITUDE
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POSOC
in February 22nd, 2011 @ 23:57Unwise. As any schoolboy knows, the only cure for the Awkward Zone is funny hats. *dons caubeen*
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in February 23rd, 2011 @ 00:36Okay, that was officially my best laugh of the evening.
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POSOC
in February 23rd, 2011 @ 21:56Presumably because you’ve seen a caubeen before.
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in February 23rd, 2011 @ 22:19That, too.
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Jadestone
in February 23rd, 2011 @ 22:55DID SOMEONE SAY SQUID?
ROOOOOOAAAAAAR I AM THE GIANT SPACE SQUID
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Mago Berry
in March 2nd, 2011 @ 14:52GIANT SPACE SQUIDS YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!
I have a Mini Space Squid guarding my room. And my backpack. And my bookshelf.
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Luna the Lovely
in February 23rd, 2011 @ 07:15Why on earth would you wish you didn’t find out?
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gimanator
in February 23rd, 2011 @ 22:49Sexual activity of any sort is a frightening concept to many.
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POSOC
in February 23rd, 2011 @ 23:00PUT ON THE HATS. NOW.
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gimanator
in February 23rd, 2011 @ 23:10Ok, ok! *plants hat on head*
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Gimanator
in February 23rd, 2011 @ 01:29I’m correct in assuming this is a joke, yes? Because the blog is going to continue their awkward otherwise. *shudders at blog’s awkward explanations*
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in February 24th, 2011 @ 04:22NO IT’S OKAY YOU’RE GOOD PLEASE DON’T LOOK IT UP ON WIKIPEDIA
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in February 24th, 2011 @ 18:42YOU! FUNNY HAT! NOW!
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in February 19th, 2011 @ 22:50My first name means somber, father, priest, or father of exaltation. My middle name means famous warrior like Kokonilly’s.
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in February 19th, 2011 @ 22:59Names- I’m named after the Greek goddess of wisdom (Sophia). I’ve no idea what my middle name, Ellen, means, and my last name doesn’t mean much of anything in any language.
Words I like:
Tintinabulation
Obsequious
Macaronic
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in February 20th, 2011 @ 16:45Athena is commonly known as the Greek goddess of wisdom. According to Wikipedia, “Sophia” is not the Greek goddess of wisdom but actually means “wisdom” in Greek. Interesting.
For names, I like Massachusetts Pilgrims-era “virtue names”, such as Charity, Mercy, Patience, Chastity, etc.
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in February 21st, 2011 @ 03:45Sorry, I confused it with the temple thingy. Well, it’s probably better to go through life with the name Sophia than the name Athena.
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in February 21st, 2011 @ 11:46I actually used to know someone named Athena. She was popular, and not very wise. I never actually heard anyone say anything about her name, but it seemed like going through life with it would be much easier than you’d expect–or maybe that’s only if it doesn’t suit you at all.
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in February 22nd, 2011 @ 20:18I would rather name my daughter Minerva, which is a better name and can be shortened to “Minnie.” Actually, Athena is a nice name too, but it would be weird to call someone that.
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in February 20th, 2011 @ 19:08Lipstick Like A Blanket
Just try saying it, it’s insanely satisfying.
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in February 20th, 2011 @ 20:01Oh, the insight of Enc. (Darn talented bagpipe-playing philosophers…)
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in February 20th, 2011 @ 20:10I play bagpipes? I was not informed of this.
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in February 21st, 2011 @ 12:32You are highly proficient at the bagpipes. Aren’t you preparing for our Icelandic journey?
…I love how you didn’t protest the “talented” and “philosophical” aspects of your character.
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in February 21st, 2011 @ 18:58Well… Ah…
I’m certainly philosophical.
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in February 21st, 2011 @ 20:06YOU *ARE* TALENTED
*slap* *healing squid*
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in February 21st, 2011 @ 20:49*bursts out laughing*
Oh great. I just literally spit hot apple cider all over myself.
THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT *shakes fist*
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in February 22nd, 2011 @ 06:30Better yourself that your computer! We wouldn’t want our overlords angry at us!
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in February 22nd, 2011 @ 08:13Good thing my iPod touch was out of reach, then!
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in February 22nd, 2011 @ 14:26That would be Unforgivable, certainly.
We should probably stop even thinking about harming iPod touches, our overlords might hear our thoughts.
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in February 22nd, 2011 @ 17:04YOU ARE TALENTED
ADMIT IT OR FACE THE WRATH OF THE SQUID MULTITUDE
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in February 22nd, 2011 @ 18:22Agreed. (My first thought upon reading your post was “Avada Kedavra?”)
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in February 22nd, 2011 @ 18:35It continues to make my day to see Fireh’s silly talented-squid comments.
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small but fierce
in February 22nd, 2011 @ 19:53Heh, Zinc…THE SQUIDS ARE *MINE*
LET NO ONE TELL YOU OTHERWISE
I STARTED THE SQUID-GIVING TRADITION
DO YOU WANT THE POWER OF THE SQUID AGAINST YOU, ZINC?
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in February 22nd, 2011 @ 20:02D: Oh| wungnuggets, there are too many of you for me to remember. Sorry! Don’t hit me with your squid!!
(Although you could say Beavo originated the squids…)
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in February 22nd, 2011 @ 20:59Actually squids have been hanging out at MuseBlog since ancient times (although admittedly some of those references were culinary). So I don’t think anyone can lay exclusive claim. Someone even posted a squid pyramid back in December of 2005.
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in February 22nd, 2011 @ 22:43Lady B: How true. I was merely stating that the comments regarding Enc’s talent and my squid multitude were originated by me.
MY SQUID MULTITUDE IS A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH
DO NOT CROSS ME
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Enceladus
in February 23rd, 2011 @ 06:45Why are people complimenting me all of a sudden? I’m not used to this!
Is there some kind of conspiracy to raise my self-esteem? Because, you know, it’s working.
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in February 23rd, 2011 @ 08:14Sbf- Yes, but Zinc was just saying I was a “silly talented-squid”. She was not giving a squid to me. Nor was she giving a squid to Enc. (By the way Zinc, what do you mean by that?)
Enc- Don’t let it get to your head, okay?
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in February 23rd, 2011 @ 13:36Fireh- Oh, sorry! I thought that Zinc was saying that you were the one posting the talented squid comments (to which I overreacted by sending my squid multitude).
Enc- What are you talking about? There’s no *cough* conspiracy or anything… Who told him? Better expect some squiggly aquatic fun…and that was meant to be intimidating.
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in February 23rd, 2011 @ 22:57WOAH NOW
SQUID?
AHEM.
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in February 24th, 2011 @ 14:38Jadestone- I do not doubt that you have all rights to a giant space squid. I was merely stating I give squids to people and the certain posts to which Zinc was referring were mine.
*coughcoughIamfrightenedcough*
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in March 3rd, 2011 @ 19:20Don’t get your tentacles all tangled up; let’s not fight about squids.
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in February 22nd, 2011 @ 07:48Some would say that there are good reasons to keep potential bagpipers unaware of their talents.
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in February 20th, 2011 @ 20:10It is.
My friends think I’m insane because I go around that muttering that over and over again when I’m stressed. XD
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in February 22nd, 2011 @ 06:31You are insane. But not because of that. And you’re insane in a good way.
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in February 20th, 2011 @ 20:34Re: Name meanings: My first name, Jennifer, is apparently Welsh in origin. I’ll just quote the website I found that had good information on names and such:
“Jennifer comes from the Welsh name Gwenhwyfar, which is composed of the elements gwen meaning “fair, white” and hwyfar meaning “smooth”.”
And in other places I found it means “white wave”. Which is pretty cool.
My middle name is English in origin and means “laurel”.My parents didn’t choose my name for meaning… xD My middle name was my also my great-grandmother’s name, I have no idea where my first name came from.
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in February 22nd, 2011 @ 06:32My name is also Welsh in origin! Well, the male version is. The female version is Irish in origin, which leads to a few problems seeing as many people in my neighborhood have Irish ancestry. So everyone expects me to be a girl.
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in February 20th, 2011 @ 20:57My first name is a month that means spring. My middle name means God’s promise. My last name is an occupation, in German.
My parents chose my first name to honor my grandfather who died before I was born. His name was Fred and I am so glad they didn’t name me Frederika, and chose to go with his birth month instead. They say that my middle name was random, and they forgot that it was already my older sisters middle name. Three of my friends have the same middle name.
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in February 20th, 2011 @ 22:01That would be… April/May Elizabeth?
I have a Christian first and middle name and a Jewish last name. My brother has three Jewish names. I haven’t the faintest idea what my names mean.
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in February 20th, 2011 @ 22:28Yep, April Elizabeth. My older sister is Katherine Elizabeth, and our younger sister is Elizabeth Ann. And no one else in the family has an ‘Elizabeth’ at all. Quite random.
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in February 22nd, 2011 @ 14:55That’s really weird, because my older sister’s name is Elizabth Anne (albeit with an ‘e’)
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in February 21st, 2011 @ 10:04Wainscoting
Sophie means wisdom I think. Argh.
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in February 21st, 2011 @ 12:17My name (Karin) is supposed to mean “pure” or something like that.
I don’t know what my middle name means. (Taylor).
My last name is a color in a language other than English.
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in February 21st, 2011 @ 15:19“Karin” is one version of a Scandinavian name equivalent to the English name “Katherine,” which comes from a Greek root meaning “pure” or “purification.” (It’s related to catharsis.)
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in February 21st, 2011 @ 17:55Ahh! That makes sense. I knew it came from Catherine.
I never make the connection between names and words. I just keep thinking that names have random meanings or come from words that are no longer used.Last year in Latin I found out that Argentum is silver, which explained both the periodic table symbol and the country named Argentina.
Google translate thinks that “niska banja” means “ninja”. “Niska banja” is a Croatian song, and there is supposed to be a thingy on the “s” that makes it “sh”.
Google translate is pretty clear on the lyrics of Dobro Dosli.
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in February 21st, 2011 @ 18:04Names used to be meaningful and rooted in history. In many parts of the world they still are. Random and made-up names have become popular in America only within the past 30 years or so, I think, as a result of what looks to me like massive historical and cultural amnesia. People think they’re absorbing more information than ever before, but at the same time, they’ve forgotten a lot.
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in February 21st, 2011 @ 18:40Mhm. My Arabic friend knows the meanings of all of her family members’ names.
Her name is Noor, or Nour. When she was born her parents wrote it one way on her birth certificate and then forgot how they spelled it and wrote it the other way on her Social Security card. So now she has a ton of cake to deal with trying to change one so she can have a verifiable name.
Noor/Nour means “light” in Arabic.My friend says that instead of calling this the information age we should call it the entertainment age, because people are less informed while taking in larger amounts of media.
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in February 21st, 2011 @ 20:30I have a Pakistani friend, named Mahnoor, which means moonlight. I find it interesting that as her last name, she took her dad’s first name. And she doesn’t have a middle name, at all.
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in February 22nd, 2011 @ 20:20That’s terrible, though very funny from this side.
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in February 24th, 2011 @ 14:42I know an Arabic girl whose name is Nour.
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in February 21st, 2011 @ 19:19In a number of circles, I’d say the case is not amnesia but repudiation.
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in February 21st, 2011 @ 19:39This brings to mind my friend’s mother, who “[is] not Irish! [she’s] American!”.
I don’t really understand the rejection of knowledge that some people have. I suppose it might amount to laziness, but I feel like that would be an overestimation of the power of laziness.
To me, the desire to learn is so strong that I don’t imagine normal circumstances being able to quell it.I don’t know if this has been discussed, but I looked up “en” in the dictionary. It is a length of measure one half the length of the letter “m”.
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in February 22nd, 2011 @ 18:31It’s also a common abbreviation for “English.”
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in February 21st, 2011 @ 20:43This is why any children I have when I grow up will have names from my family tree.
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in February 22nd, 2011 @ 06:29My name is from a welsh farmer that lived centuries ago! (That is why my parents chose it, they assure me.)
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in February 22nd, 2011 @ 11:19Neil Gaiman just reposted a post on his blog about his daughter Holly’s name:
I dragged songs from her childhood over to the playlist — “Barcelona” and “Nothing Compares 2 U” and “I Don’t Like Mondays” and “These Foolish Things” and then came Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side”. “You named me from this song, didn’t you?” said Holly as the first bass notes sang. “Yup,” I said.
Lou started singing.
Holly listened to the first verse, and for the first time, actually heard the words.
“Shaved her legs and then he was a she…? He?”
“That’s right,” I said, and bit the bullet. We were having The Conversation. “You were named after a drag queen in a Lou Reed song.”
She grinned like a light going on. “Oh dad. I do love you,” she said. Then she picked up an envelope and wrote what I’d just said down on the back, in case she forgot it.
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in February 21st, 2011 @ 15:59Ligature: The leather or metal part of the saxophone or clarinet that holds the reed onto the mouthpiece, still allowing for vibration.
(There’s an alto sax player at our school called Reid. Reid=reed=alto sax=get it? Is that too corny?)
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in February 21st, 2011 @ 18:31AHH we have an alto player named Reid too! Creepy!
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in February 21st, 2011 @ 18:54Waistcoat
Coxswain
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in February 22nd, 2011 @ 20:20Coxcomb.
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in February 21st, 2011 @ 19:36I think Isabelle (my name) and all its variants mean something along the lines of ‘God is my oath’…something like that, anyway. My name is the French spelling, but I don’t think I was named after anyone. I guess my parents just liked the name. According to them, I could have been Victoria or Monique, and if I had been a boy, I think I would have been named Arthur.
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in February 21st, 2011 @ 20:06SFTDP Forgot to add, my middle name is Amber. No idea where that came from either.
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in February 23rd, 2011 @ 11:39Isabelle Amber! That’s pretty!
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in February 21st, 2011 @ 20:57Actually, I have no idea what my name means. (Robin) I’ve seen “brilliant,” “the bird,” etc. I can’t seem to remember what Lynn means, but I know my parents chose it as A) a fallback and B) they thought it sounded nice with “Robin and my lastname, which is currently classified information I’m not at the liberty to divulge. ( < – I don't know; just wanted to write more with my tablet. *brags*)
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in February 21st, 2011 @ 21:09First name: Daniel
-Means something along the lines of “God’s judge” or “judged by God” or something to do with God and judgement
-Chosen because A. nice name, and B. religious nameMiddle name: James
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-Chosen because father’s first name
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in February 22nd, 2011 @ 06:58My first name means “the pearl”, I dunno what my second name means but it’s classically latin and the female version of the name of someone who bit the dust in march. My second middle name is a little more tricky, it’s supposed to mean hardworking according to the internet and is an old family name on my father’s side. The english version of the name was made famous by a famous (female) aviator; only one letter is different, probably changed because it sounds much nicer in english that way.
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KaiYves- Go, STS-133!
in February 22nd, 2011 @ 09:52Bo’sun.
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in February 22nd, 2011 @ 12:15I’ve been having issues lately with the use of “an”. It really annoyed me when people say “an historic event”, until I discovered that people also say “an hippopotamus” and “an human”. Now I’m just concerned that the “h” might have been silent at one time.
I also wonder about “an” before vowels that don’t sound entirely vowel-like. For example, should I say “a one point shot” or “an one point shot”? I currently say and write “a one point shot”, because the “o” doesn’t start with a vowel sound, it starts with the “w” sound.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in February 22nd, 2011 @ 12:39Some people do use “an” before “h” when the “h” starts an unstressed syllable: an historian, but a history book. But it’s not required, and — in 21st-century America, at least — you’re never wrong if you say “a.”
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in February 22nd, 2011 @ 12:41English is always changing. Some initial Hs that used to be silent aren’t any more and vice versa. Some are voiced or silent depending on which part of the English world you’re talking about. When I was a kid, I insisted on saying “an historic” and so forth, because that’s how those words appeared in the British books I read. But I think most speakers of U.S. English thought I was weird. To this day, “a historic” sounds painfully clumsy to my ears, and it potentially causes confusion with the word “ahistoric.”
In general, the “a – an” distinction follows the sound of the words. Indeed many of the “an” constructions were originally “a” followed by a word beginning with “n,” such as “napron” (related to “napkin”) which eventually became “apron.”
Here’s a brief article on the subject of indefinite articles used with initial Hs: www . worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-anh1.htm
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in February 22nd, 2011 @ 12:49Note that that article refers to British English. I don’t think you’d find many American newspaper articles talking about “an hotel.”
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in February 22nd, 2011 @ 12:52Oh, yes, I forgot to make that clear. (As it happens, I do say “an hotel.” I’m just that weird.)
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in February 22nd, 2011 @ 13:08A related topic is the pronunciation of “the”: Long “e” before vowels and schwa before consonants. This often comes up in singing lessons or chorus; I don’t know whether anyone in the outside world spends much time worrying over it.
(And yes, now that I’m thinking about it, I do say “thee historic,” “thee hotel,” and so forth.)
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in February 22nd, 2011 @ 13:16Ah! You both posted while I was writing.
I did notice that it was a British article. :]
My friend was dismayed a few days ago to find that his Latin dictionary spelled “connection” with an “x”. I suppose the British way is “connexion”? I like it spelled that way. It seems to be more true to the natural pronunciation.
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in February 24th, 2011 @ 14:38Hmm… I’m not sure if I ever say “thee.” I don’t think I do. I never say “an h—-” either.
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in February 22nd, 2011 @ 13:09Thanks, GAPAs!
When Watson came on Jeopardy, Alex Trebek called it “an historic” event. It was weird to hear such old fashioned language in juxtaposition to such a modern event.There is a sound I don’t like. I can’t stand words like clog, plug, flog. They just sound so disgusting. Those words are like little 11 year old boys who think it’s fun to play in mud and laugh at fart jokes.
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in February 22nd, 2011 @ 13:31Of course, Alex Trebek is Canadian.
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in February 22nd, 2011 @ 13:51I didn’t know that.
Further evidence of my idea that Canada is a happy magic music factory where everyone is smart and talented. :] (I claim that everyone is allowed to have a generalization or delusion.)
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in February 23rd, 2011 @ 19:16That’s because they have a g in them (see rant of former Rants and Plaints thread).
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in February 22nd, 2011 @ 20:0759.3: I actually didn’t know this I heard it in choir. I was quite surprised. I adhere to it, but no-one else I know seems to.
Kinnikinick! Scofflaw! Vroom! Myrmecophile! Teleost! Bismuth! Zarf!
My name wasn’t chosen for it’s meaning; my first one was apparently random. If I were to have children (though I plan to adopt instead), I’d want to choose their names for their meanings.
Although I deinitely wouldn’t want to be named Vladimir(a), I like the sound of it. According to my favorite name website, the first part means to rule and the second part means peacefully or with greatness–though some people say that the ‘mir(a)’ part means world. For some reason, I seem to be the only one it occured to that it could mean ‘to peacefully and greatly rule the world’…
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in February 22nd, 2011 @ 20:55“mir” is a Russian word which means both “world” and “peace”.
This is my favorite word in any language based on meaning.
And somehow it never occurred to me that “Vladimir” contains “mir”.
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in February 22nd, 2011 @ 21:17And the feminine form of ‘mir’ is ‘mira’, I believe. GUESS WHAT MY NAME IS :I
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in February 22nd, 2011 @ 21:24It’s actually two different words — homonyms. They were spelled with different vowels before the Bolsheviks ordered spelling reform. “Vladimir” must mean “ruler of the world”; the other interpretation sounds un-Slavic.
Names involving peace do exist in other languages, though. When I was studying Arabic, one of my teachers named me ‘Abd-as-salaam, which means Servant of Peace. It suits me, I think.
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in March 2nd, 2011 @ 15:58Which was the official translation of the name of the space station? Most things I’ve seen translate it as “Peace”.
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in March 2nd, 2011 @ 16:08That’s right: the space station was the peaceful sort of mir.
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in February 23rd, 2011 @ 06:33My name means “father’s joy” and was apparently popularized by Puritans. Now it’ll be even stranger if I read The Crucible again! Try having your class do part of a play in which characters are saying your name every twenty seconds, sometimes in really awkward contexts. However, my default threat now involves bringing a pointy reckoning that will shudder people
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in February 23rd, 2011 @ 09:09What’s your name?
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in February 23rd, 2011 @ 10:30Abigail, I’d hazard.
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in February 23rd, 2011 @ 10:43That’s also my sister’s name.
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in February 23rd, 2011 @ 15:47Just Abby, actually. It’s not a nickname for Abigail in my case, though people tend to assume it is. I like the name Abigail better than Abby an my parents have offered to let me change it, but I’d feel weird doing that. I’m just Abby!
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in February 23rd, 2011 @ 18:51I’m the other half of “names derived from Abigail”, so I know exactly what you mean.
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in February 24th, 2011 @ 14:34Oh, that reminds me of my brother. His name on his birth certificate is “Jake,” not “Jacob.”
My name is Riley. It means either “valiant” or “a small stream.”
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in February 24th, 2011 @ 15:09I don’t understand why parents give children nicknames as given names. Take my friend Betty. If her parents had named her Elizabeth, she could still be Betty, but she could also be Elizabeth, Beth, Bess, Eliza, Liza, Liz, Lizzie, Lisa, or even Ebeth. She could “wear” a different name every day of the week, and then some! But because her parents named her Betty, she’s just Betty. She doesn’t mind, but it seems unduly limiting to me.
The same goes for my cousin Jack, my sister-in-law Julie, and any number of other people I have met. (Come to think of it, I suppose Nancy Kangas is probably officially Nancy, too. “Nancy” started out as a nickname for Ann.)
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KaiYves- Go, STS-133!
in March 2nd, 2011 @ 15:59Your name is Abby and you did The Crucible in school? Ouch, that must have been awkward.
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in February 23rd, 2011 @ 15:52My name’s way too easy to guess if you know just a little bit of the Christian mythos.
My name, when translated, means “Who is like god?” (Rhetorical question, don’t answer). I’m named after the archangel who slew Satan, and if I remember my dates correctly, then my birthday is on his feast day (March 19th).
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Piggy
in February 23rd, 2011 @ 16:29No archangel slew Satan. Not yet, anyway.
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Bibliophile
in February 24th, 2011 @ 10:55I used to know which angel’s name meant that (though not the other things), but I forgot… Michael? Gabriel? *picks the most commonly given angel names*
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Koko's Apprentice
in February 24th, 2011 @ 11:15It’s Michael. If you google it you see bunch of pictures of him standing over Satan.
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in February 23rd, 2011 @ 19:48@Piggy
True, I got “slay” and “defeat” confused I guess. He’s usually pictured with sword held high over his head, and one foot holding satan down (Usually in snake form, however I have seen one statue somewhere where Satan is depicted as some form of Hell hound)
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Choklit Orange
in February 25th, 2011 @ 03:19Wait, he had Satan pinned to the ground with a sword? Why didn’t he just kill the guy?
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Piggy
in February 25th, 2011 @ 07:05It’s not time yet.
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KaiYves- Go, STS-133!
in March 2nd, 2011 @ 16:00Well then, he ought to get around to it.
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Trojan Tiger
in February 23rd, 2011 @ 21:15Automaton!!!! So fun to say!! Yay for vocabulary books!
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Zinc
in February 24th, 2011 @ 01:43A word I hate spelling: accept. I always try to write “except.”
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oobatooba
in February 24th, 2011 @ 07:24I just don’t like spelling anything…
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Agent Lightning
in February 24th, 2011 @ 15:18I almost was in a spelling bee… the worst word in the English language is concomitant. Grr.
Egress: Exit.
“This way to the egress”
does not mean
some sort of bird.
I read that today in
A Hat Full of Sky
by Terry Pratchett
whose books
I have been reading
a lot lately.
I am typing this post in
free form poetry
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why.
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Rosebud2
in February 24th, 2011 @ 18:49No, the worst word in the English language is ophthalmology.
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Agent Lightning
in February 24th, 2011 @ 15:19(SFTDP: It wasn’t even GOOD poetry. Drat.)
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in February 24th, 2011 @ 15:21Oh, I don’t know. I thought it was clever how you rhymed “sky” and “why.”
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Midnight Fiddler
in February 24th, 2011 @ 15:39Re: Naming children “nicknames” as a given name:
I don’t get this either. I have a friend named Jamie Edward [lastname]. That is is name. Jamie Edward. Not James, Jamie. Why? I have no idea. Jamie fits him, and I’m sure it was adorable when he was a toddler, but he’s 19 now and it’s slightly strange that it’s his given name.
I didn’t know Nancy was a nickname for Anne, but it kind of makes sense. My aunt’s name is Nansie, and her two kids (my cousins) are named Kinsley and Coale, both old family names. Another cousin’s name is Katie, not Katherine, Kaitlyn or any other name that one can get Katie out of, but Katie. Her sister is Leslie, which is yet another old family name, if I recall correctly.
My dad is Kent, and is constantly called “Ken.” My grandmother goes by “Dee” because she hates her given name of Dolores. Personally I think she has a beautiful name, Dolores Yvonne, but she despises it. Crazy.As for me, I’m named after a spore producing plant, my middle name means springtime in Hebrew (which has led a few few people to think I’m Jewish. I’m not.), and my last name is common and German. No idea what it’s supposed to mean. My other last name (my dad’s last name, which is not legally mine, because my mother kept her maiden name when they married and her name ended up on my birth certificate and it sounds better anyway so whatever) is also German, but less common, as far as I can tell. It appears as part of other more common surnames though, most notably in a popular children’s song.
Since my middle name starts with a vowel, my initials have the potential to spell out plenty of interesting things. I just need to never change my last name to something starting with a G or T, because then they’d spell “fag” or “fat.” Whoo-hoo.
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Axa
in February 24th, 2011 @ 19:32something i don’t understand…why would a nickname be longer than the given name?! i had no idea nancy was a nickname either, and that seems pretty ridiculous to me to be honest, it’s like someone is going out of their way to make things difficult. OY VEY
My last name is a version of a relatively (?) common Irish surname, apparently the family dropped the “Mc” at the beginning to avoid discrimination when they came here. My mom’s maiden name has two writings in Japanese, one of which is apparently very nice and the other which means “rude, uncouth” etc…guess which one is ours?
or at least that’s how the story goesmy mom wanted to name me darius if i had been a boy, which i think would have been excellent.
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in February 24th, 2011 @ 20:59My first, middle, and last names are all common words in the english language. Makes googling myself a bit of a pain..
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Mago Berry
in March 2nd, 2011 @ 15:02I was almost named Thea, which I think is an awesome name. Eh, well, now I get to be either a) thought of as a boy if the spelling is known, or b) called Sydney if the spelling is not known…
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KaiYves- Go, STS-133!
in March 2nd, 2011 @ 16:02Kind of related- how does Peggy derive from Margaret?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in March 2nd, 2011 @ 16:07I think the evolution went something like “Margaret – Meg – Peg – Peggy.”
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KaiYves- Go, STS-133!
in March 2nd, 2011 @ 16:08And I guess Richard -> Dick was “Richard – Rick- Dick”?
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Lizzie
in March 2nd, 2011 @ 17:14My favorite was the day I realized that Gretchen was a diminutive of Margaret
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Marfwarrior
in March 2nd, 2011 @ 17:44How does that one work?
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Bibliophile
in March 2nd, 2011 @ 19:32I had no idea that any of these were diminutives of other names, but I’d guess this was Margaret–Gretta–Gretchen. -Chen is a suffix that means something.
…That probably didn’t help much, did it? Oh, well.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in March 2nd, 2011 @ 20:13“-chen” is just a German diminutive suffix meaning, basically, “little.” “-el” is another one. Hansel’s sister Gretel was really Margaret, and in a different part of Germany she’d have been called Gretchen.
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Piggy
in March 2nd, 2011 @ 20:19So when they grow up they’re just Hans and Margaret?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in March 3rd, 2011 @ 02:04On their passports (well, Margarethe, the German equivalent), though their friends might call them Hansi and Greta. Are you thinking about writing a sequel?
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Randomosity 101 (Pi Party Participant)
in March 2nd, 2011 @ 17:52I was named after my great-grandmother. But everybody thinks I was named after a character in a book-turned-movie. Even if they don’t think that, they joke about it. It drives me crazy. I wouldn’t mind so much if they compared me to the Magic School Bus character with the same name. At least I’m slightly similar to her. Oh, and my History teacher has started writing “Good job, Dot!” when I do well on a test. I’ve had a nickname, but it WASN’T Dot. Dot was my great-grandmother. I find it irrationally annoying.
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Princess_Magnolia
in March 3rd, 2011 @ 16:28Dorothy?
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Mago Berry
in March 3rd, 2011 @ 14:59Nobody cares who I’m named after. They’re just busy remembering to spell it wrong.
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Randomosity 101 (Pi Party Participant)
in March 3rd, 2011 @ 19:0975.1- Yes. I have no problem with the name itself, but the way people keep insisting on making Wizard of Oz comments drives me caking crazy.
76- Oh, that’s too bad. Who were you named after?
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in March 3rd, 2011 @ 19:38*empathizes* When I was growing up my name was uncommon so I heard lots of references to “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.” Adults were worse than my peers, actually. One friend of my grandmother’s would say it every time she saw me.
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vanillabean3.141
in March 3rd, 2011 @ 19:42Really? I always thought Rebecca was a not unusual, classy name. There’s even a famous novel called Rebecca.
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in March 3rd, 2011 @ 23:20It’s experienced a major surge in popularity in the past couple of decades. I knew a couple of Beckys and a Bekah when I was in school, but I can’t remember meeting a Rebecca who actually went by Rebecca until I was well into adulthood. Now they’re everywhere. I find that rather disconcerting.
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Bibliophile
in March 3rd, 2011 @ 22:31How is Margarethe pronounced?
For some reason, it bothers me when the plurals of words that end in f (except when it’s ff, like in tariff) end in -fs rather than -ves. I’m not sure why, but it really doesn’t look right to me.
I hate the words blub and gloss as well, and the syllable ‘gluh’ in general.
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in March 4th, 2011 @ 08:08“Margaretta” with a German accent.
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Mago Berry
in March 4th, 2011 @ 14:1677– I was named after a great-great-great grandmother or so of mine. I like my name, actually, but people just tend to think that Sidney is the “boy” version.
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Bibliophile
in March 4th, 2011 @ 16:12I’m glad we have the word en. It’s really useful and convenient. I always hated the fact that there was no epicene pronoun, so I’m quite glad to have one now.
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Mago Berry
in March 7th, 2011 @ 14:11I use en as often as I can–unfortunately, when I tried to use it in a game of Scrabble, it was denied. Why can’t people be more open-minded??
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in March 7th, 2011 @ 14:33“En” is also a word in the world beyond MuseBlog. In typography (the design of typefaces or fonts), an en is the width of an uppercase N.
Digression: In addition to hyphens, most fonts contain longer dashes called “en dashes” and “em dashes” used for different purposes. (In America, the em dash is the standard dash “—” used in punctuation. Brits tend to prefer the shorter en dash “–” instead.)
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Randomosity 101 (Pi Party Participant)
in March 7th, 2011 @ 18:26I keep raving about how foolish people are for not adopting “En” into the standard English language. Especially now, in the age when people are communicating more and more with people they never see. We NEED to be able to use an epicene pronoun that everyone would understand!
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Neptune
in March 7th, 2011 @ 18:37Yes, that would be logical.
And, I don’t see why not to adopt it.
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Midnight Fiddler
in March 7th, 2011 @ 15:5075 (Randomosity101)~ My parents didn’t even think of the Fern in Charlotte’s Web when they named me–it was my cousin who made the connection first when they showed me to her as an infant. I occasionally have people ask me how Wilbur is doing.
There was also a Fern on the tv show Arthur.
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Neptune
in March 7th, 2011 @ 18:38Cool, your name has connections!
My name is just the name of some good NFL players!
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Bibliophile
in March 9th, 2011 @ 20:27I have the same first and last name as a softball player. Fortunately (as I hate softball), I’ve only ever met one person who’s actually heard of her, and she didn’t make the connection until I mentioned it.
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Mago Berry
in March 10th, 2011 @ 14:21My name is the name of the Dark-type Elite 4 member in Hoenn. Except he’s, well, a he. And has a red mohawk-ish hairdo. And has an electric guitar.
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Bibliophile
in March 19th, 2011 @ 11:50Why was everyone’s name chosen? Mine (Katie, which is short for Katherine) was just because my parents couldn’t agree on anything else. That May/June 2010 Muse article on nominative determinism scared me a bit, because it’s quite strange imagining what things might have been like if I’d been named something like India, which my mom wanted, or Tiffany/Courtney/Brittany, like my dad wanted. Those just don’t suit me at all.
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in March 19th, 2011 @ 12:21My parents named me in a moment of rebellion. I was the first born of my generation — and therefore supposed to be a boy (my mother’s stepmother wrote to my mom, “we’re so looking forward to the arrival of ‘little brother'”) — so there was loads of pressure to give me a family name. My parents chose “Rebecca” simply because they liked the name. When it came to my brothers, though, they capitulated entirely to family expectations. One is a junior and the other is named after both our grandfathers (he is thus saddled with Ralph and Augustus).
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Lizzie
in March 19th, 2011 @ 12:38I’m named after my great-grandmother, whose name was something like Lipsi but was anglicized to Lizzie at Ellis Island.
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shadowfire
in March 19th, 2011 @ 13:05I’m named after a dead relative (both first and middle name, but different people). I think that’s a Jewish thing, but it’s a Christian name. Hurm.
Also, I have the same first name as J.K. Rowling, which is pretty darn cool. If only people would remember that it isn’t Joanna.
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Bibliophile
in March 19th, 2011 @ 13:51Don’t worry; she had some trouble with that, too. The first time anyone ever referred to her as ‘Joanie’ in her life was when a newspaper claimed that was what her friends called her.
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shadowfire
in March 19th, 2011 @ 14:05It’s especially confusing now, since there’s a girl named JoAnna in one of my classes. We’re never quite sure who the teacher’s addressing, because I’m so used to being called Joanna. It was even worse fall term, when the teacher’s name was Joanne too. Gah.
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Randomosity 101 (Pi Party Participant)
in March 19th, 2011 @ 13:46-85.3 It is a Jewish thing, but it depends where your family’s from. Depending on where they’re from, it’s traditional to name after either a dead relative or a live one, and the converse to te particular tradition is taboo.
That’s actually how I got my name. I was named after a great-grandmother who died before I was born. As for my middle name, my mother wanted to name me after her grandmother, but she was still alive, so my mother gave me a similar name because she couldn’t really name me after her grandmother. (Said maternal great-grandmother is still alive, by the way. I visit her sometimes when I’m in California. Everyone thinks she looks at least fifteen years younger than she actually is.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in March 19th, 2011 @ 13:47I was named after my father, who was named after his two grandfathers. My family believed in recycling names.
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Unintended Pun
in March 19th, 2011 @ 22:01My mom told me that my middle name and my sister’s middle name were names that she wanted for our first names. My mom and dad agreed on our first names, and my mom’s original ideas became our middle names.
I’m glad that my sister and I both have K names, and that they are spelled the German way with our German last name. (We are Karin and Kristin)When I go to college I might tell people to pronounce my name the German way. (Car-een, not Care-in) When I’m in Europe this summer maybe I’ll try it out and see if I can get used to it.
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Bibliophile
in March 22nd, 2011 @ 16:40Susurration.
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Trojan Tiger
in March 22nd, 2011 @ 21:32False seemed like a odd word a minute ago, then I typed it and thought “Oh, that makes sense,” then I looked at it for another ten seconds and now it seems to be spelled oddly…. Is this just me?
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Bibliophile
in March 31st, 2011 @ 21:56How would you prefer to spell it?
Aschelminth.
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Koko's Apprentice
in May 25th, 2011 @ 20:03That happened to me once with frog. I just looked at it for a second or two wondering what it meant then asked myself why it was spelled wrong (it wasn’t).
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Armada
in May 5th, 2011 @ 17:32In my opinion:
Gaily: In a lighthearted, happy manner.
Gayly: In a homosexual manner.
And the two should not be used interchangeably.
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Piggy
in May 5th, 2011 @ 19:25If there’s one thing I’m angry about concerning the gay rights movement, it’s the theft of the word “gay”. We happy people had it first!
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ZNZ
in May 5th, 2011 @ 19:34CONCUR.
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Armada
in May 7th, 2011 @ 20:09*grins* Well, you can still act gaily without acting gayly, I suppose.
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Insatiably Quaeritating Bibliophile
in May 5th, 2011 @ 20:20Furcae! Peribuccal lamellae!
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oobatooba
in May 24th, 2011 @ 15:13Weird and awkward are the two best spellings in the English language, because their meaning and spelling are alike.
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Koko's Apprentice
in May 25th, 2011 @ 20:00Imperfect tense in Spanish has some really funny words:
Trabajaba (en used to work)
Hablaban (they used to talk)Also, as I mentioned in a different thread, secchi is really fun to say.
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Bibliophile
in May 26th, 2011 @ 11:23For some reason, I always read ‘Chess Eterna-ment Rankings’ as ‘Chess Eterna-ment Ramblings.’ Also, whenever I says ‘blogname,’ I get the urge to say ‘Musername.’ It’s strange.
I love the name Elenora.
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Armada
in August 20th, 2011 @ 16:20כושי (kushi): Such a cute word. It sounds like cereal and freckles and handsome brown people. Why can’t we all just talk in Hebrew while discussing racial issues?
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Lizzie
in June 12th, 2013 @ 17:06This is two years old, but to answer the rhetorical question, possibly because it’s a pejorative term and also because thinking of groups of people as “cute” is kind of belittling.
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KaiYves
in June 12th, 2013 @ 10:41I really like “argosy” lately. I read a piece by George Bass referring to shipwrecks as “these lost argosies”, and he could have just said “wrecks” and meant the same thing, but doesn’t “lost argosies” sound so much cooler and more mysterious?
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KaiYves
in December 12th, 2014 @ 18:28Does anyone else find “telephony” an Inherently Funny Word?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in December 13th, 2014 @ 10:39“Telephony” ends in “funny.”
My funny word of the day is “ombudsman.”
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KaiYves
in December 13th, 2014 @ 17:30I can never believe “comptroller” is a real word. It just looks too silly.
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Catwings
in December 13th, 2014 @ 19:43If we’re talking about our favorite unusual words, ‘genuflect’ is my latest one.
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Piggy
in December 13th, 2014 @ 20:19Not so unusual when you’re Catholic….
Fun fact: in certain liturgies, the deacon chants for everyone to genuflect, and the Latin phrase for that is “Flectamus genua”. It means “let us genuflect”, but it literally translates to “let us bend [the] knees”.
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Catwings
in December 13th, 2014 @ 21:29Oh. I had just heard of the word last night, so it’s unusual for me.
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KaiYves- Yay Rosetta!
in December 14th, 2014 @ 10:13It’s okay, I only learned it from a comment on a Famous External Photography Site when I was 15 or so.
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Maths Lover ♥
in December 17th, 2014 @ 02:06I love the use of “genuflect to the dollar” in Cloud Atlas. So perfectly dystopian.
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Lizzie
in December 20th, 2014 @ 21:03First you get down on your knees
fiddle with your rosaries
bow your head with great respect and –
genuflect genuflect genuflect
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Noah2316
in December 14th, 2014 @ 11:08Pipple!
‘To make the murmuring sound of a gentle wind or rippling water’
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in December 14th, 2014 @ 21:10susurrus
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