Words & Names

Words you ♥, words you made up, names you’re curious about–step right up and verbalize. Just don’t reveal too much about your own names.

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  1. Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

    *does weird GAPA first-post dance*

    I’ll kick this off by revealing my favorite word: serendipity. Here’s what I like about it:

    (1) I think it’s wonderful that we have a word that means “finding things that you’re not looking for.”

    (2) We know exactly when it entered the language and who coined it (January 28, 1754, in a letter by the English writer Horace Walpole).

    (3) It came from a fairy tale, “The Three Princes of Serendip,” about three brothers who overcome obstacles by accidentally discovering just what they need. (“Serendip” is an old word for what we now call Sri Lanka.)

    Now over to you, MuseBloggers…

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  2. yayforhotpinkbunnies! says:

    Omg im first i hope
    miscombobulated is my word i made it up it means confused i think:???:

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  3. yayforhotpinkbunnies! says:

    I HATE U Robert Coontz (adminiTRAITOR)
    i wanted to be first DIE !
    now i did the first pst dance 4 nothing:twisted:

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  4. Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

    A good dance is never wasted.

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  5. Ebeth The Former But Recently Rehabilitated Lurker says:

    You did the 2nd post dance!

    And i’ll do the 5th post dance!!!

    Unless somebody comes along to spoil my dreams…*sniff*

    Speaking of dancing, does anybody here play runescape? I spent about fifteen minutes making my character do a jig. Tis funny.

    Words and Names! Ok! Erm…well of course, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconisis. Odd nobody mentioned that yet, but then i suppose this is only the fifth post.

    I used to LOVE the word onomatopoeia. It is a very cool word, no?

    My name is so boring. (Elizabeth i mean. and my last name, which I shall not utter here lest it bring our foes, the SPAMMERS and STALKERS into our midst. Driven and guided by the very sound of the name, they come, circling around like vultures. They penetrate through the heart of us innocent souls, they spread darkness and despair wherever they go. Theirs are the feet of pestilence, of famine, of death. Where they walk, no crops shall grow, no birds shall sing, all is in the silence of imminent doom. They flit like ghosts, through the very air we breathe, fouling and upsetting it. They-*is pied*) Anyway, nice name and all, but pretty common. Oh vell. I like Ebeth, tis a very cool name. Yay go me!

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  6. Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

    Ebeth is a splendid name, but Elizabeth is darned good, too. For one thing, it has more nicknames than any other name I know.

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  7. Ebeth The Former But Recently Rehabilitated Lurker says:

    That is true. But almost every time i’m introduced to somebody as Elizabeth they go “oh, that’s my middle name!” Not kidding. It is insane.

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  8. book_addict says:

    well atleast it’s not their first name. i know about 15 Emilys. its crazy.

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  9. Ebeth The Former But Recently Rehabilitated Lurker says:

    Yah, emily’s a way crazy common name.

    Ooh! I made up a language today in science. Well, jacob and i did. It’s called Drrbrrbrrbrr. It only has one word in it-Drrbrrbrrbrr. It’s what we shout at andy whenever he starts talking. So eventually we started having conversations in Drrbrrbrrbrr. Like this:

    Andy: blahblah

    Me: DRRBRRBRR!!!

    Andy: Aaaah!

    Jacob: Drrbrrbrr!

    Me: Drrbrrbrrbrr?

    Jacob: Drrbrrbrrbrr.

    Me: Drrbrrbrrbrr!

    Jacob: Drrbrrbrrbrr?

    Me: Drrbrrbrrbrr.

    Lizzy: You guys are so weird.

    Andy: I am not a zombie!

    Me and Jacob: DRRBRRBRRBRR!!!!!

    Lizzy: *sigh*

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  10. book_addict says:

    nice language. :)
    one time me + some friends were on a ski lift and we made up a language of jibberish and somebody asked what language we were speaking. it was funny.

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  11. book_addict says:

    I LOVE NAMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but i dont have a favorite…

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  12. FantasyFan?!?! says:

    post ten! i think a wonderful word is mycology! not that im into it or anything

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  13. Queen Julietaini; Queenie; WDNT says:

    Well, Douglas Adams and John Lloyd made up lots of fabulous, nice-sounding and necessary words like “shoeburyness”, when you sit in a seat and it is warm from someone else sitting on it before you do. There’s also “opalescent”, which has a fairly mundane meaning but rolls off the tongue very nicely and sounds hypnotic. “Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious” is always a fabulous word, but totally unsuited to regular context in life. What, for example, does it mean? I also like the word “stairwit”, which describes some part of repartee you think of after the moment has past. This is a translation from the French word, and the idea is that you are climbing the stairs to go to bed when you think of it. “Retrotort” is also a synonym. And how do you talk in l33t and pronounce “Cthulhu”? These are mysteries I think Musers should explore.

    7-Like that part in the Producers where it’s “Not many people know this, but the Fuhrer was descended from a long line of Eeenglish queens. Ja.” and then Leopold Bloom and Max Bialystock go to meet the worst director and his middle name is “Elizabeth” too. My middle name is boring. Total somniabulism.

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  14. The Malignant Mandolin says:

    I like the word recapitulation . In musical terms, it is where the main theme comes back in a different key. I also like the word binary fission , which I don’t really feel like explaining right now, but it is basically where a bacteria’s DNA splits in two, and then it splits in two (how it reproduces)

    wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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  15. Kricket says:

    rendezvous. (ran de voo is the phonetic spelling)
    sfz- music term actually i can’t spell it so i’ll post the abv.

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  16. emogrl says:

    schweet! favourite words!

    not real words:

    relly (really-i relly relly RELLY like to spell it this way!)
    w00t! (esp when said in a voice akin to yoshis)
    yays
    mrahr! (i made this one up all on my own! mrahr to that! its used to indicate either excitement or frustration)

    actual words i luv to use just to confuse ppl:

    farrago
    quondam
    querulous
    pleathera (dont know if i spelled this one right)
    anticlimactic (its hard to believe that many ppl actually dont know what that means)
    minute (as in small)
    skulduggery (now that is a sweet word!)
    chiasmus
    synecdoche
    litote
    allude
    irony
    jovial
    banter
    circuituous
    base (as in stupid)
    cranium
    erasure
    non sequitur (+ all the other cool logical fallacy names)

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  17. emogrl says:

    i definitely invented “musik” too!

    -|–#————-|————O]——————
    -|—————-|—————|————–
    -|—–2———|—————|—————-
    -|-G–4——-O]—————|——————–
    -|———————————————

    this is my obnoxious musik. thats a good word too. oboxious, that is

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  18. Skipper Nancy and Lemon Curry says:

    I like my name pretty well, exept that every other person I know with the name Sally is about 50. Which isnt terrible, but it does make it seem old fashioned. (Cause 50 is just ancient alright)

    I like the word tintinnabulation which refers to the jingling and ringing of bells and chimes. I thinks its perfect because the word itself sounds like a chiming.

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  19. The Evil One (Jessie) says:

    My favorite word is “unbeknownst.”

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  20. Violetfire says:

    Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious means nonsense.

    Also….
    anatidaephobia: the fear that ducks are watching you.
    anananany: the inability to stob spelling the word banana once you’ve started.
    Archibutyrophobia: the fear of having peanut butter stick to the roof of your mouth.

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  21. Skipper Nancy and Lemon Curry says:

    My friend and I made up a word. Schmea. The cool thing about schmea is that its the only word in any language that has the deffinition of every other word in any language. Its a liguistic phenomenom. You no longer even need to learn other languages, or try and search for the right word. Schmea does it for you. Its better even than esperanto (and it ignores culture even more)!
    You pronounce it shmay, adding embellishes and accents as you see fit.

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  22. sweet melpomene says:

    my name is olivia. very boring. and people always aske me if i was named after olivianewtonjohn.

    anyway, words!

    defenestration!
    the act of throwing something out of a window! almost usless but so fun!

    perspicacious!
    perceptive! yay!

    preposterous!
    “This outfit is preposterous” is probably the best artemis fowl quote ever!

    fuliginous!
    sooty! also virtually useless!

    13- “cthulhu”s pronunciation was touched upon in one of lovecraft’s letters…i pronounce it cuh-thu-lu…but that’s not exactly what he said…look it up, because i really can’t expoain it.

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  23. sweet melpomene says:

    and another cool word is “absinthe” liquor. the green faerie. but still a pretty cool word.

    cool girl name = nephthys

    cool boy names = xavier, galahad, isadore

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  24. E~A says:

    #18- MY NAME IS SALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Is yours too?!?!?!?!?!?! and you aren’t 50!!!!!! (I’m not either^_^ of course.)

    cool names: Kethren, Celia, Magnolia, Meredith all of which are girls names…

    for boys I like Daniel, William, Nicholas

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  25. E~A says:

    I love word parts and origins of words! I also love names and the meanings of names. If I try to write a book it takes me forever to properly name characters.

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  26. ishmael says:

    hmmm, favorite words, I’d have o say rehibilitate, phobia, non sequtor is nice, chortle and giggle I like, jigglyness is just plain jiggly, Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia and friggatriskaidekaphobia are good o :-)

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  27. Queen Julietaini; Queenie; WDNT says:

    16-Emogrl, don’t try to confuse me. I know all those words. Intimately. Are you reeling with shock yet? Why are you not filled with incredulous disbelief of my claim? I didn’t presume so. Sigh. Life. Don’t talk to me about life.

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  28. Copper Bigfoot says:

    Comics is a funny word. Why isn’t it spelled Comix? Thats how I like to spell it.

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  29. The Evil One (Jessie) says:

    Let’s see. Jess ie is a shortened version of my real name. I am female. You people are fairly smart. You can probably figure it out.

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  30. Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

    “Jessica” sounds Biblical, but I’ve heard that Shakespeare invented it–that it didn’t exist until he used it for one of his characters (Shylock’s daughter in The Merchant of Venice).

    Jessamyn is another pretty Jessie-name.

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  31. The Man @ A Salamander who is 8 years old says:

    :cry: :evil: :arrow: That’s you! I hate that rule! You are :twisted:, or TWISTED!!!
    My name is Myeri Acasa. That is actually my anagram, like Mltnrpns Iouie (the Irplunian)’s anagram, Milton Rupines. Speaking of Irplunians, Pwt is an Irplunian. On Irplunia, there are no boys or girls, which shoud settle the Pwtargument. Aeiou is an Irplunian going by the last name.

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  32. The Man @ A Salamander who is 8 years old says:

    Something TOTALLY random. You know Emma (from Attack of The Smart Pies)’s parents went to Kokokino Country on vacation? :idea: What if Emma isn’t a human :?: 8O :o :!: :!: :!: :!:

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  33. The Man @ A Salamander who is 8 years old says:

    :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?:

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  34. Skipper Nancy and Lemon Curry says:

    E~A!! YES MY NAME IS SALLY!!!!! HOORAY!!!! I’ve never met another Sally who was near my age (Im 14). Its kind of weird to think that we all know eachother but we don’t know eachother’s real names, so we had the same name and didn’t even know it (a bit redundant, but hey, who doesnt love a bit of healthy redundancy now and then). It’s funny, cause I can’t think of you as Sally, only as E~A.
    Strange how that happens, huh.

    Skipper Nancy: I am going to post on the history thread now..
    Lemon Curry: NO BAD GIRL GO DO MATH HW!!!
    eek. or, as emogrl would say, mrahr! *cringes in expectation of pie from emogrl for stealing her word*

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  35. 100% cotton says:

    i have a file on my computer for cool names. it comes in handy.
    as for cool words, me and my freinds were reading harry potter in french and we came across : my friend became obssesd. i know that’s more like 9 words but oh well. i like serendipity to GAPA. also cool:
    obstreperous
    extemporaneous
    nettle
    cobbler, cobble, cobbled
    goblet
    i’m sure there are more but for now…

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  36. 100% cotton says:

    whoa, i did some thing wrong! i meant to say we came across Celui-Dont-On-Ne-Doit-Pas-Prononcer-Le-Nom my friend… sorry sorry.

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  37. Copper Bigfoot says:

    A roleplay idiot name: Dark_Wolfsbane_Bloody_Sakura

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  38. FantasyFan?!?! says:

    ZENZIZENZIZENZIC!
    if you dont know what that means, google it. if yur boycotting google,TOUGH! it is the only word in the english language that has 6 Zs. it is my favorite word so dont steal it.
    also cool:
    rhinotillexomania : obsession with nose-picking! Ha!
    quadragenarious : being 40 years old ( or relating to it ) gapas, confirm?
    galactophogus : something that eats only milk

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  39. Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

    Hm, no time to look any of these up right now, but I’m sure that “galactophogus” should be “galactophagous” (the –phagous suffix means “-eating”) and almost sure that “quadragenarious” should be “quadragenarian.” It would be cooler if “galactophagous” meant “galaxy-eating,” though.

    What’s the difference between –phagous and –vorous (as in “carnivorous” and “herbivorous”)? Technically, “-phagous” should combine with Greek roots, “-vorous” with Latin ones.

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  40. moocow says:

    MY favorite word is frazinazinahilllpillfacation
    it means to bug and torment someone

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  41. The Malignant Mandolin says:

    I know someone named Sally…except she is 17.

    My name is Clara….I’m 14. I haven’t met anyone my age with that name..the only other person named Clara that I’ve met is 3 years old.

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  42. Ebeth The Former But Recently Rehabilitated Lurker says:

    13-yay i love that book! It’s very useful isn’t it? Plus, people never have any clue what you’re talking about when you use the words in there. Oh how I love confusing poor innocent souls… :twisted:

    Wow, these are some pretty sweet words.

    I like words with b’s and sh’s. Like…bubble, bubbly, erm…blubber, flibbertigibbet, shampoo, sssshhhh…oh and ooo’s. Like blooooo and goo and moo.

    And ZAP!

    zapzapzap
    it’s what the GAPA do
    rapraprap
    it’s what most bloggers eschew
    and yet here i am
    rapping away
    rapraprapraprap
    i say!
    this is quite absurd
    this isn’t quite right
    it should be more authentic
    we’ll throw in a fight
    and a *bleep* and a *bleep*
    and another *bleep* here
    that should work better
    everybody give a cheer!
    It’s rap!

    Excuse completely random little rapping type ish but not really poem thingy…

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  43. Queen Julietaini; Queenie; WDNT says:

    I hate my name. I just do. It sounds like a brand of soap.

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  44. sweet melpomene says:

    parsimonious. it sounds soooo cool. miserly.
    loquacious. talkative.
    graupel. soft hail.
    tellurian. a really fancy word for an inhabitant of the earth. or a device that shows how the earths position and movement cause day/night and the seasons. but i like the first definition better.

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  45. Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

    “Parsimonious” has another very useful meaning. When scientists say that something is “the most parsimonious explanation” for something they’ve observed, they mean that it’s the simplest one–the one that requires the fewest assumptions. Scientists prefer parsimonious explanations because they don’t like to make things any more complicated than necessary. (That may be hard to believe as you slog through your chemistry textbook, but it’s true.)

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  46. Jadestone says:

    Whats the difference bewteen immoral, unmoral, nonmoral, and amoral?

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  47. Jadestone says:

    Most of you are refulgent.(sp?)

    “Refulgent” Means sunny and happy.

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  48. Rosanne Spector (Administrator) says:

    Aqualinderella, the name of a particular fungus that grows on fruit submerged in warm, stagnant waters. Such a pretty name. Aqualinderella.

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  49. Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

    It sounds like a beautiful young woman whose nasty step-sisters make her kneel in the corner and scrub fungus off their fruit.

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  50. Rosanne Spector (Administrator) says:

    And then she marries a mer-prince and they live happily ever after in their underwater kingdom.

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  51. Copper Bigfoot says:

    …….. Srumpdilliyliciousness.

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  52. Axa says:

    I enjoy proper leet, not the phan boy type I’ve been seeing all too often. Of course, by proper I mean properly-making-jests-at-leet-phanboy-leet. Mwa.

    As far as words go, my favorite as of right now is axel, spelled like that, because you can spell it that way and mean tha same thing. So y’all know.

    Other words? My favorite Japanese words are “omoide” which means memory, or remembrance; “haruka” which means far off, far away, or just plain far; and “dakara”, which means that’s why, or, for that reason.

    Omoidaseba, haruka haruka

    Love that song. :3 Utada owns you all.

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  53. emogrl says:

    #48: thats a schweet name!

    #32: *readies a lemon/curry pie*

    #27: alright, this is random. last week i was watching CSI, + it was about a 12 year old girl who was a genius, + she had killed this person by putting NaOH in their shower head before the person went to take a shower (ah…ok, they found out she didnt relly do it in the end; she had just led the entire court to believe that she had done it, which was even more amazing-but i wont get into that). after the show, i just thought for some reason “wow, why did that make me think of Queenie J?”
    but then again a lot of ppl here seem like evil geniuses @ times

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  54. Em says:

    ok, the gapas just had a strange bout of wierdness…

    my name is emmeline. emmeline is also a person who dies in hp, the queen in ‘the great good thing’, and blouse’s wife. the last one isn’t particularily exciting, but whilst i was reading that book i happened to glance at the next page, and it gave me quite a start, because it said “Dear Emmeline,” in fancy font, and i thought terry pratchet was writing me a letter. :lol:

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  55. Skipper Nancy and Lemon Curry says:

    Do the evil sisters get their eyes pecked out by sea gulls or does she forgive them?

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  56. Queen Julietaini; Queenie; WDNT says:

    Speckie, you have quite the imagination. Hoo boy.

    46- Immoral: Against one’s morals.
    Unmoral: Synonym for immoral.
    Nonmoral: Not connected to moral standards or mores.
    Amoral: Like amorous. Not to be confused with “a moral” as in “A moral one learns from Bluebeard is ‘Don’t marry a creep who butchers his spouses.'”

    45-GAPA, darling, that’s Occam’s razor! “Shouldn’t needlessly complicate entities.”-Long Dark Teatime of the Soul.

    I haven’t met any other people named Juliette except for Juliette Lowe, who founded the Girl Scouts, and I didn’t even meet her. And there’s Juliette Binoche, a fabulous actress. Actually, most people forget the ‘te’ at the end, call me Julie, or make dumb jokes. Oh well, festina lente.

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  57. Ebeth The Former But Recently Rehabilitated Lurker says:

    47-that’s the one i always mix up with redolent on vocab tests. Don’t you think refulgent sounds more like a smell? Well i do anyway, which is why i am perpetually confuzzled as to the meanings.

    48, 49, 50-AAAH! *runs away* No merprincesses. Please. SPARE ME!!!

    I’ll bring my history book home tomorrow cuz it has an amazing, completely made-up, random bunch of letters that possibly could constitute a word if you were feeling very tolerant. Fun times.

    Speaking of words and such, i have a latin vocab quiz tomorrow that i should probably go study for cuz i haven’t the faintest what the words actually are, much less what they mean. Toodles. (Yet another amazing word…)

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  58. Rosanne Spector (Administrator) says:

    Queenie J.
    (46) OK, so it’s not the most creative ending to the story. But that’s just the way it is. I can’t help it if Princess Aqualinderella’s life is a sappy, soggy fairy tale!

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  59. Ebeth The Former But Recently Rehabilitated Lurker says:

    No! Haven’t you peoples read Witches Abroad??? (Ok so i only just read it like yestiddy but nobody cares so shut up. The important factor being that i read it…) (if anybody was confused as to who was supposed to shut up, that’s just me talking to my conscience or one of my alter egos. Whoever’s shift it is right now. Whoever it is is being quite annoying. I really should get myself a copy of the work schedule so i can tell who’s who…)

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  60. sweet melpomene says:

    45- my chem book has really long and complicated formulas, but the questions at the endes of the chapters aske you to use the empirical formulas in your answers…eville…

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  61. sweet melpomene says:

    A bird-watching term: peebeegeebee = a pied-billed grebe.

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  62. emogrl says:

    i ♥ the great good thing! ive read it maybe 4 times…yeah. and @ some point i actually had 4 copies of it…how did that happen…

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  63. E~A says:

    41- I know a Clara who is 14 and will turn 15 sometime this year. I am going to be 16 this month and 17 isn’t that old compared to 50.

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  64. FantasyFan?!?! says:

    2 of my favorite words: PIE WARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  65. Evil Esther says:

    I like the word “it” simplicity is good. 8)

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  66. dark lord of darkness says:

    galahad :)
    xaiver :)
    how do you pronounce pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconisis?
    *feels stupid and phoenetically incompetent*

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  67. The Malignant Mandolin says:

    I’m glad, though, that I don’t know any Clara’s my age. I llike being the only one. I know about a ZILLION Jessica’s, Anna’s, and Emily’s that are my age.

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  68. Ebeth The Former But Recently Rehabilitated Lurker says:

    English vocab was all good. Redolent wasn’t even on there, so i got refulgent very easily. :D

    Latin not so good. Couldn’t remember Quid agis. Ah vell, she gave tons of extra cred on that one so i probably made up.

    And…*sigh* I forgot to bring my history book home so i can’t type up weird made-up totally nonexistant word. :-( (yes, the history book had something interesting in it! Amazing, no?)

    Right now in english we is doing romeo+juliet and having much fun insulting each other in elizabethan. XD

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  69. Emiliana, on her 'e' sticking keyboard. says:

    ebeth, what is your fathr’s nam? (ys, i am stalking you. dont say i didn’t warn you)

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  70. Sir Penguin says:

    pneumonoultamicroscopic…whatever is pronounced: new-monoltra-microscopic-silico-volcano-canosis. At least i think…

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  71. Sir Penguin says:

    my favorite word is whangee. its some kind of bamboo. And “chargogagogamaunchaugabaunchaugamogamog” is cool too.(i didnt spell that right)

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  72. Sir Penguin says:

    oh yeah, and sallisylic acid

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  73. Emiliana, seized by a sudden urge not to be Em says:

    ebeth, because i am the awesmest person you have ever met, i looked up the site for you. it was in the math section of the exploding trousers issue, which is probably why you didn’t find it. here it is:

    http://www.babynamewizard.com/namevoyager

    i hope that does not get zapped, because it was in muse.

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  74. Emiliana, seized by a sudden urge not to be Em says:

    its such a cool site! for instance, you can see that robert had boring parents, because his name was the third most popular boy’s name when he was born. ebeth’s weren’t much better, heres was the 8th most popular. montgomerygurl’s name was ranked 6th when she was born, but now its like 67th. rosanne, on the other hand, was at 603 in the 1960s. we will say nothing of my name, because its not even on there. aaaannnnddd… i can’t remember peoples names. oh yeah, juliette. juliette’s popularity was rising when she was born. it was 968.

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  75. Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

    Hey! I was named after my father, who was named after his grandfather, who was born in 1864. You have to look it up under that year.

    It’s true, though, that there are plenty of Roberts in my generation. I thought we were second, after Michael–another boy’s name you don’t see much nowadays.

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  76. Emiliana, seized by a sudden urge not to be Em says:

    lots of robert coontzs too. i was looking it up earlier.

    you were second in 1940. when were you born, 1944? you don’t look that old. i thought you were born in 1956.

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  77. Copper Bigfoot says:

    I’m named after…. my great uncle. And I’m a girl.As you can see, misfourtune curses through every part of me.

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  78. Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

    There’s another good baby-name tracker at the U.S. Social Security Administration’s website.

    Yes, I guess I was third, after Michael and James.

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  79. Ebeth The Former But Recently Rehabilitated Lurker says:

    Yeah, Elizabeth’s sort of a family name too.

    Thankee for the link em! Yay!

    My dad’s name is mark btw. *is stalked* lol

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  80. Skipper Nancy et Lemon Curry says:

    56 Wait, I though amoral had to do with doing wrong because you didnt know the difference between right and wrong.

    “wooloomooloo” is a section of Sydney. It has eight o’s.

    Copper, what’s your name? Im trying to think of one that could belong to both you and your great uncle. I’m failing.

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  81. FantasyFan?!?! says:

    My name isnt there! hannah is NOT HOW MY NAME IS SPELLED. so therefore it isnt me. hannah is derived from anne, which means grace and is old hebrew(according to my old dictionary, anyway) MY name is arabic and means happy! :x *grumps, so that im totally not acting like my name* and its spelled with only one H and one N.

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  82. FantasyFan?!?! says:

    will the gapas snip this?

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  83. FantasyFan?!?! says:

    #81 i mean. i think its better to unpopular names, because then you arent like …ummmm… any old somebody, i guess.

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  84. Emiliana, on her 'e' sticking keyboard. says:

    yeah, emmaline is on there, but not emmeline. i think emmeline is more of a british nam. my brother’s nam is theodore. it was vry popular in the 1900s, but not so much now. there is anothr good nam site, wwwdotbabynamesearchdotcom, but repalce the ‘dot’s with ‘.’s. you can look at nam origins and unusual names, and name meanings, and all that cool stuff.

    now i know where ebeth lives. ho hum. that was too easy. i should have had to at least cross reference her skool district or something. hey, i think i know someone with your dad’s name. lives in illinois, or somthing.

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  85. book_addict says:

    i like the name Emma and Emmaline. my favorite letter is e.
    my name isn’t very popular but all the same i don’t like it. by the way, GAPA, what happened to MY BIRTHDAY??!!?!? it dissapeared off the calendar…

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  86. Emiliana, on her 'e' sticking keyboard. says:

    everyone insists on pronouncing my name ’emmalEEne’ and splling it ’emmaline’. emiliana is actually not anything anyone calls me, but is the person who sings ‘gollum’s song’ in the credits of TTT.

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  87. Annna says:

    Okay. My friend made up a bunch of words and I kind of helped a little. I remember one. It’s “ishwibble”. It means someone who makes up words. She made it up.

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  88. The Malignant Mandolin says:

    If someone has a lot of time on their hands, could they look up “Clara” on the search thing? It doesn’t work on my computer. (I was born in 1991)

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  89. Dragon Eye says:

    I don’t have words that I made up(well actually I have a few) but here’s some names that I heard and thought were cool/goofy.
    Mike and Molly Moony(It’s fun to say)
    Jimmy Willy
    Oi-yoy
    Chico(dog name)
    The Gynan sisters
    Loopos(last name)
    Aren’t those cool names? They feel like they belong in a story together.

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  90. draMaQueen!! says:

    When I was little me and my friend had a password thingy to make sure that it was really me and really her. (doesn’t every little kid do this?)
    Fungusteajellybelly
    ok, we kinda copied it off of Barney, but hey! Barney was our inspiration! :lol:

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  91. sweet melpomene says:

    66- pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconisis
    …..so, broken down, it looks like this:
    nu-mono-ultra-micro-scopics-ili-covol-cano-con-is-is
    …..and sounded out:
    new-mahn-oh-ull-truh-mike-row-scaw-picks-ill-ee-coh-vole-can-oh-con-uh-sis
    …..at least, that’s my guess

    my name is ranked four this year. i’m so depressed. ranked 72 the year i was born. ugh.

    cool word: juggernaut.

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  92. Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

    (To the tune of “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”):

    Pneu…
    mono, ultra, micro, scopic, silicovolcanoconiosis,
    Even though the sound of it is reallysomethingterriblyatrocious,
    If you say it loud enough, they’ll forget your halitosis.
    Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis!

    I wrote that when I was 10. Imagine my disappointment on learning, just a few weeks ago, that a word columnist (in the 1930s, I think) invented pneumono-etc. to poke fun at long technical words. It’s in the dictionary now, but nobody has ever used it except as an example of an inordinately long word. Doctors just say “pneumoconiosis.”

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  93. Copper Bigfoot says:

    My name is Greek and it means something I’m not. Well, not most of the time, anways. Lately I’ve been reading propechys and having desire.

    Odd that I’d have a Greek name, since I’m jewish.

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  94. The Malignant Mandolin says:

    Actually, it is silico , not piks ilico

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  95. Shadow049 says:

    Angst is the ONLY word in the English language with a 4-consonant combination.
    It is cool.
    Also, noodle is fun to say.

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  96. Rosanne Spector (Administrator) says:

    Shadow049,
    What about iNSTRument?

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  97. Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

    Length? Strength? Seamstress? Arthropod? Phthalate?

    Besides, “angst” isn’t really an English word. It’s a German word we adopted.

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  98. sweet melpomene says:

    wow. gapas, you are walking dictionaries. *stares in awe*

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  99. Copper Bigfoot says:

    Pretty much all english words are adopted from some other culture and modified.

    I can’t think of any specific example at the momment, though…. someone help me?

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  100. Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

    SM (98),

    It seems that people are always staring at us for one reason or another.

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  101. Copper Bigfoot says:

    Thats because your knowldge is Scrumpdillylicous!

    MMMM…. Scrumpdillyliciousness.

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  102. Rosanne Spector (Administrator) says:

    Speaking of angst and names, there’s a psychiatrist named Dr. Angst who works at Stanford. A perfect name for a psychiatrist, right? But it’s perfect beyond perfect in this case because Dr. Angst is director of the Stanford Human Experimental Pain Lab! It’s a lab where he studies pain by subjecting study participants to various levels and asking them how they rate it on a scale of 1 to 10. I’m not kidding.

    On top of that, the nurse he works with is named nurse Tingle.

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  103. Nancy et Lemon Curry says:

    Wow. That is perfect.

    My dad is working to start up this institute for mixing research mathematicians with math educators. He was joking about calling it Arizona Center for Mathematics Education. ACME. Now, can you think of two animals native to AZ that fit perfectly with that acronym?

    I’ll give you a hint: mee meep!

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  104. Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

    Acme makes so many useful products. I’d love to have their catalog. Unfortunately, something always seems to go wrong with them at the last second…

    “Tingle” is one of those dentist words. Like “pinch.” Whenever my dentist says “You’ll feel a slight pinch,” I always know what’s coming, and it’s not very pinchlike.

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  105. Ebeth The Former But Recently Rehabilitated Lurker says:

    HAHAHA

    That is so perfect…Dr. Angst…wow.

    Tingle is how people describe feet falling asleep. It doesn’t feel all that tingly to me but then when my feet fall asleep they fall asleep. Interesting fact about me that i’m sure you all needed to know. :D

    Me hyper…me had pumpkin+white choklit muffin!!! Yay!

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  106. The Malignant Mandolin says:

    That is funny!

    I like the word

    piffle

    I think it means “silly thing” or “stupid thing” or something like that. In spanish, it’s “tonteria”

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  107. Nancy y Lemon Curry says:

    OK. My fault. Made way to obscure of a joke. Yes, indeed, Acme makes a lot of useful products including all the anvils, safes, weights and hammers used by Wile E. Coyote to try and catch Roadrunner in the cartoons.
    So ACME is often associated with the Wile E. Coyote cartoons, and roadrunners and coyotes are native to AZ so if there was something called AZ Center for Math Education, or ACME, they could use Wile E Coyote and Roadrunner as their mascots. Now do you see?

    Oh never mind….

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  108. Queen Julietaini; Queenie; WDNT says:

    Guy Noir, private eye, lives on the top floor of the Acme building. One man trying to find the answers to life’s persistent questions. Guy Noir, private eye.”

    “Piffle” is a synonym for “drivel” and “nonsense.” My father loves that word. Maybe because he doesn’t stutter on it.

    102-I’ve met Dr. Angst, but not Nurse Tingle. There was a book I read a while ago where the villain was Doctoral Candidate X.

    My middle name is German and means “brilliant protectoress.” The weirdest name I’ve ever heard of was Nevaeh. Heaven backwards. Pronounced “Nevah.” There is At Random, though, if you want a truly accidental name, and I know a Pravatchai Wanalayan Boonlayangoor. Known fondly as Dr. Boon.

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  109. Kali D. says:

    Kubelschreiber!!!!! (German for pen)

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  110. yay4hotpinkbunnies! says:

    i have a short name
    ZOE the awesome and great
    se4e i even have my own title (the awesome and great) and its not boring like crown princess of blah blah blah…
    Zoe is NOT na nockname
    I ♥ my name

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  111. yay4hotpinkbunnies! says:

    eek i made typos :shock:

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  112. Lizzie says:

    okay, a word that is apparently Hawaiian and that I learned last night:
    hapa.

    Hapa pride, yo.

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  113. Rosanne Spector (Administrator) says:

    Queenie J.,
    Woa, I didn’t expect anyone on the MuseBlog to know Dr. Angst. Freaky.

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  114. The Malignant Mandolin says:

    empitzu kesuri – pencil sharpener in japanese….I wish I could actually post it in japanese!

    It’s pronounced

    ehm – pee – tzoo – kez – oo – ree

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  115. Violetfire says:

    HI!! I had a cool word, but by the time I read all the other posts, I forgot it. Oh well.

    BLINK!!!!!!!!!!

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  116. Ebeth The Former But Recently Rehabilitated Lurker says:

    111-(amazing number, no?) my best friend when i was little in the UP was named Zoe! Sadly though, she’s not a muser. At least i don’t think so.

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  117. emogrl says:

    ooh pumpin/w. choc muffins? *dreams*

    guy noirs hilarious! so is the sound fx guy on his show

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  118. The Malignant Mandolin says:

    I have a friend named Jessica who’s middle name is Zoe. Her initials are really cool. Not counting the Zoe, her initials are

    JKL

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  119. sweet melpomene says:

    Tegucigalpa is the capital of Honduras. i love that word….Tegucigalpa!

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  120. The Skipper, and a reluctant Lemon Curry. says:

    question that I’ve been meaning to ask. Where does “pwns” come from? How was it created?

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  121. The Skipper, and a reluctant Lemon Curry. says:

    Ok Malignant Mandolin.
    Clara was most common in the 1880s when it was 9th.
    It was least common in the 1980s when it was 553rd. In the 1990s it was 424th and as of 2004 it was 285.
    Kewleo :)

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  122. yay4hotpinkbunnies! says:

    117
    who knows
    i could be that zoe!:grin:

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  123. sweet melpomene says:

    121- leet kids who type too fast and can’t spell “own” because they use regular keyboards and hit the “p” instead, thus producing “pwn” (pronounced “pawn”)

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  124. Copper Bigfoot says:

    I always preonounced it Piwins

    (V)
    (O.o)
    (UU)

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  125. The Malignant Mandolin says:

    Thanks, Skipper/Lemon Curry!

    I pronounce it pawn, but I don’t know if that’s right. How do you pronounce “Pwt”???

    I always pronounced it Pee – ooo – t (Pewt)

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  126. Lizzie says:

    Kids at my school pronounce it pown. Pown and pawn are the two most common pronunciations, I believe.

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  127. Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

    For “Pwt,” a couple of other possibilities are mentioned in the Fan Page’s FAQ section.

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  128. The Skipper avec la petite Lemon Curry says:

    My sister pronouces it like its an acronym. She says each letter, like P- W- T. I tould her it was wrong, but she insists on persisting to prounce it that way.

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  129. The Skipper avec la petite Lemon Curry says:

    No one at my school will understand “pwns”. I’ll start using it to confuse them all. hehehehhehe.

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  130. Copper Bigfoot says:

    The name “Harry Potter” is fun because your able to make fun of it in so many ways

    Harrys Pottery
    Hairy Potter
    Hairy Otter

    and so on.

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  131. sweet melpomene says:

    127- …..i used to pronounce it like that…..

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  132. sweet melpomene says:

    129- ….i used to do that too….

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  133. Ebeth The Former But Recently Rehabilitated Lurker says:

    I only use it online…when i’m saying something like that i just say “own”

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  134. Purple Panda, who doesn't feel like being Malignant Mandolin says:

    ahhhhh……….

    In Attack of the Smart Pies, they said something about Pwt, and they said “HE”

    Does that explain anything!!!!!??????!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

    Personally, I think Pwt looks more like a girl, but that’s just me..

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  135. Taiwan Hippo Fan says:

    try this cool word:
    pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
    and i also like
    pernicious

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  136. Taiwan Hippo Fan says:

    yo
    yo

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  137. Taiwan Hippo Fan says:

    how does this work?

    hgkjg

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  138. Taiwan Hippo Fan says:

    hi

    hi

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  139. Taiwan Hippo Fan says:

    really, Robert Coontz?
    Shakespeare invented the name ‘Jessica’?
    that’s so cool!

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  140. Purple Panda, who doesn't feel like being Malignant Mandolin says:

    ANNA!! (Oh, sorry, Taiwan Hippo Fan) just say everything in the same post instead of doing zillions of posts…well you can if you want, but it is weird…

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  141. Copper Bigfoot says:

    If they said “He” than he must be homosexal. Remember that cartoon with feather in the memory issue…..

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  142. Violetfire says:

    I say it Pwin. Like Win, but with a P. And I say Pwt like Pwit.

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  143. The Skipper avec la petite Lemon Curry says:

    I spent today picking up the trash around my house and along the road. I got 2 full trashbags. Uck.

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  144. The Skipper avec la petite Lemon Curry says:

    143. Thats how I say it too.

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  145. Purple Panda, who doesn't feel like being Malignant Mandolin says:

    That’s a good idea.

    For the Service committee at our school, we do trash pick-ups around a park nearby. There is SO much. One time, we filled 11 garbage bags!! We found some really weird things – a guitar case, a cast, etc.

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  146. Darth Yoda says:

    Main Entry: pneu·mo·no·ul·tra·mi·cro·scop·ic·sil·i·co·vol·ca·no·co·ni·o·sis
    Pronunciation: ‘n(y)ü-m&-(“)nO-“&l-tr&-“mI-kr&-‘skäp-ik-‘sil-i-(“)kO-väl-‘kA-nO-“kO-nE-‘O-s&s
    Function: noun
    Inflected Form: plural pneu·mo·no·ul·tra·mi·cro·scop·ic·sil·i·co·vol·ca·no·co·ni·o·ses /-“sEz/
    : a pneumoconiosis caused by inhalation of very fine silicate or quartz dust
    I say pwin and pwit

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  147. Copper Bigfoot says:

    Spring- as a season, this is a weird name. Spring is something metal that goes “Boing”

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  148. Taiwan Hippo Fan says:

    that is why it’s called ‘spring’. All the flower and leaf buds ‘go boing’, similar to the metal things

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  149. sweet melpomene says:

    “go boing” interesting phrase.

    lactose is a cool word.

    so is diethylether

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  150. Violetfire says:

    That’s also why autumn is often called fall. Because the leaves FALL of the trees. Also, some people can’t spell autumn.

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  151. Violetfire says:

    151: That looks like it sounds like “Die, thy lether!” Whatever a lether is.
    Or like “Dye thy leather”.

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  152. sweet melpomene says:

    how spiffy!

    it’s die-eth-yll-eeth-er. some random organic compound. C4H10O. (i can’t do subscripts)

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  153. Eccentric the Afterthought says:

    I was introduced to the word “sesquipedalian” (six foot long) in Durant’s Caesar and Christ earlier this school year and it’s become a favorite since then. I don’t know why, I guess it’s just fun to use. ^.^

    Other personal favorite words of mine are idiosynchratic (I think I may have spelled that wrong), eccentric, incarnadine (I may have misspelled that one as well :p), and cogitations (because it sounds better to say “I like to cogitate in my spare time” than just to use plain old think). :D

    As for names, nice to meet you, Malignant Mandolin! I’m a Clara too, although my name is spelled the German way, Klara. I’m fifteen, going to be sixteen in October this year. Yay! I’ve only met one or two other Claras in person. Apparently it comes from clarus, a, um, meaning clear, bright, or excellent in Latin. Cool, huh? I like it. :) Let’s see, famous Klaras or Claras. Well, the only ones I know of are Klara in the Nutcracker and Clara in Varney the Vampire, but I’m sure there are more.

    Oh, and festina lente in post #56! Yay! Make haste slowly, right? :D If we’re in Latin, I like saepere audere (dare to know), and facite (supposedly “git-r-done” in Latin). Can’t say I’m much of a fan of git-r-done, though, but it’s gained a lot of popularity in my state lately. :p

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  154. Ebeth The Former But Recently Rehabilitated Lurker says:

    Noli mortuous

    Or something like that. I’m not gonna bother to look up grammar, spelling and all that good stuff, but that’s my motto for the day. Don’t die. :P

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  155. sweet melpomene says:

    155- NICE TO MEET YOU! WELCOME! ♪♫ it’s idiosyncratic. (from idiosymcracy, i presume…) incarnadine is correct, though! yay!

    i think it’s about time someone posted “Word Disassociation” by Lemon Demon. will be my next post. ☺

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  156. sweet melpomene says:

    enemy lasagna
    robust below wax
    semiautomatic aqua
    accompany slacks
    why coffee gymnastic
    motorcycle unibrow
    existential plastic extra nightly cow

    damn jettison goodbye through
    everything center who
    spidery concubine
    pale lickity-split remorse
    vitamin after force
    already nested human wine

    flight
    luminary uprise
    entanglement broke
    unsophisticated clockwise
    holiday way smoke
    abundant various
    metaphorically applause
    underneath hilarious oxymoron claws

    rectangular awkward hurt
    million controvert
    never undressing sneer
    blue therapy fall inside
    father dethrone applied
    guillotine apprehensive engineer

    Word Disassociation (Disassociation)
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    prance omelette stalking chimneysweep eleven hatred earmuff okay rathskeller my elusive hula yellow sketching creamy helium gentlemanly communique

    flouncy
    panicky redundant
    psychedelic while
    raisin terrible abundant
    polyurethane smile
    scrumptious mechanical
    jungle uncle wish
    paleobotanical backwards licorice

    truth medical entertain
    cleverly porridge brain
    jellyfish fingernail
    agnostic oppressive wall
    platypus parasol
    sauntering sawdust opera monorail
    playing…

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    letter

    no

    sly

    violin

    dust-bunny

    explode

    serenade

    why

    spoil

    play

    drip

    skullduggery

    freezer

    monocle

    pelican

    cool

    milk

    freak

    tongue

    television

    staple-gun

    mellow

    face

    bubblegum

    periscope

    fight

    silly

    elephant

    akimbo

    paranoia

    sever

    maybe

    crush

    toy

    spoon

    melt

    feather

    clear

    king

    weird

    space

    love

    domino

    reality

    apostrophe

    (Word Disassociation Word Disassociation Word Disassociation…)
    dollar jade velocity meringue assuming gentle mister advertisement suitcase pining lobsters over murderous distraction flames imposter a-cappella crouch about bionic ruby quickly antidisestablishmentarianism

    Word Disassociation (Disassociation)
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  157. Purple Panda, who is retiring from Malignant Mandolin says:

    COOL! Another C/Klara!

    *very excited*

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  158. Copper Bigfoot says:

    How do maybe and crush go together? If its the type of crush i’m thinking of….

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  159. Skipper Nancy and Lemon Curry says:

    Hi EtA! I love the word cogitations. And cognition.

    Doeseatoats
    andmareseatoats
    andlittlelambseat ivy
    akid’lleativytoo,
    wouldn’t you?

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  160. Skipper Nancy Blackett says:

    He he. I have now written pneumonoultrascopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
    on my desk in Sharpie, so that everytime I sit down at my computer, I will see it, which will help me on my goal to being able to spell it from memory.

    …I also have the words “life on mars” “pwt pwns”what are we doing again?” written on my desk, along with an rather extenisve and rapidly growing doodle.

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  161. anarchy pie (emogrl; well who did u expect?) says:

    hmm…obstreporous? is that how u sp it? its a neat word anyhow

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  162. Ebeth The Former But Recently Rehabilitated Lurker says:

    OH! OH! Who topped the class in the NLE?? That’s right. That’d be me. Actually, i tied with josh (loser. lol jk. Actually he would be a loser and we would shun him if he wasn’t going out with rachel. But that’s beside the point, said point being that he’s a loser but not really because he tied with me for top score of the class on the NLE) We both got 32. NLE being National Latin Exam btw. Actually i knew this before because we graded it in class but A-Now it’s like all official and froody and B-i didn’t know that josh tied w/me cuz he wasn’t there that day (grr) Oh and C-apparantely we get hoopy little certificates for this.

    Oh yes and my dad pointed out that it might be kind of hard to live up to my old motto (noli mortuus) so i made up a new one-Noli stas in via. Don’t stand in the road. Good advice, no?

    I also looked up how to say “Take me to your leader” but i got lazy and figured ok screw the grammar, nobody cares. (Nobody being moi) Anyhoo. Duc me ad vespet dominus. Or something like that. I’m pretty sure i completely made up the fourth word or at least mangled it horribly and almost unrecognizably. But yeah whatev.

    Had ridiculously easy vocab this week (on wed. cuz of passover/easter) Only 10-wd. Easy A. :D yay!

    General happiness…

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  163. Purple Panda (formerly Malignant Mandolin) says:

    We have 100 math problems to do over the Easter/Passover break…grr….there are some really long ones, too, like word problems or, 7a……7b……7c……7d…..7e……all counts as 1 problem………bah

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  164. sweet melpomene says:

    caitiff- jealous, cowardly person.

    pneumonoultrascopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. still can’t spell.

    latin is cool. very cool. i took the NLE in 7th grade and missed it in 8th grade due to the flu. don’t remember what i got.

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  165. Purple Panda (formerly Malignant Mandolin) says:

    What is the NLE?

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  166. Taiwan Hippo Fan says:

    I like fantabulous
    it’s a mix between fabulous and fantastic, if you couldn’t tell.

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  167. Purple Panda (formerly Malignant Mandolin) says:

    flamablamabulous…

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  168. Eccentric the Afterthought says:

    Lol I wish, but I definitely didn’t top the class for NLE. When did your school take it this year, Ebeth? Mine took it towards the end of March, supposedly early because of spring break being on a different schedule from most schools, in my state at least. I think I missed three questions, but I forget how many there were. A new record for me, since last year I missed eight and I think I missed twelve or something like that before. One girl in class got a perfect score! Wow! She must have studied a lot. Do you by any chance live in Kentucky? I know a Josh here who really, really likes Latin. :)

    For Purple Panda and anyone who’s curious, the NLE is the National Latin Exam, basically just what it souns like, a bunch of questions about various things concerning Latin.

    Personally, I’m not much of a grammar fan – I always seem to get some grammar point or another wrong. There’s too many to keep up with after awhile! We learned how to say fun things like “use the force” awhile ago, but I don’t remember them now. I have a book, “Latin Quips at your Fingertips”, that has a lot of fun things; I’ll post some when I find it again.

    Hmm…back to words. Let’s see, how about flammable and inflammable? Two fun words. ^.^

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  169. Lizzie says:

    Ooh, I took the NLE on March 7th. No idea what I got, though- there were about four-six questions I wasn’t sure about, and I know I missed at least one of those.

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  170. Purple Panda (formerly Malignant Mandolin) says:

    I wish I could take Latin…the only language we get at our school is Spanish. (We used to have Japanese, but the teacher got married and moved to Guam)

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  171. Ebeth The Former But Recently Rehabilitated Lurker says:

    We took it on the ides of march. (oooh, aaah, latiny)

    Eccentric! Me jealous! We never learned to say anything fun! We ramble on about how Sextus est molestus puer and suchlike. Not like i pay attention though *gasp* Duc me ad vester dominus, and i shall pie him in the face. (et ego…pie? face? meh?)

    Cheese is a fun word. It’s the double e’s. CHEEEEEEEEESE! Squee!

    I like the word strag (and if you don’t know where that’s from i shall strangle you, you strag. lol jk…OR AM I?) I call people strags all the time. Tis fun.

    Spam is a fun word.

    SPAMSPAMSPAMPSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAM!!! SPAMMY SPAMMY SPAM SPAM SPAM!

    Oh dear. Ebeth hath spammedeth the most beloved Museblogeth. The GAPA seeketh revengeth. *runs away*

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  172. sweet melpomene says:

    I DON”T LIKE SPAM!

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  173. Taiwan Hippo Fan says:

    (173) I agree. I don’t remember much Japanese.
    here are some words I didn’t remember until I got out my Japanese folder a minute ago:
    shima=stripe (also island)
    hachi=bowl and/or bee and/or 8
    ringo=apple
    sakana=fish
    isu(ee-soo)=chair
    hana=flower(also nose)
    neko=cat
    ohio=good morning
    konnichiwa=hello and/or good afternoon
    konbawa=good evening
    oyasumi=good night
    maru=oval

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  174. sweet melpomene says:

    from wikipedia:

    The word pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is defined as “a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust, mostly found in volcanos”. However, the origin of the word has been found to be a hoax.

    * pneumono = related to lungs (Latin)
    * ultra = beyond (Latin, as in “ultraviolet”)
    * microscopic = extremely small (Latin/Old English)
    * silico = silica (Latin)
    * volcano = volcano (Latin)
    * coni = related to dust (Greek: konis, dust)
    * osis = disease / condition (Greek)

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  175. Purple Panda (formerly Malignant Mandolin) says:

    Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwantysiliogogogoch is a city in Wales. It is pronounced:

    Lan – vire – pool – gwin – gill – go – ger – oo – quern – drob – ool – antis – eel -ee – oh – go – go – goch

    I love that word!!!

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  176. Ebeth The Former But Recently Rehabilitated Lurker says:

    174-*gasp*

    I don’t like spam, sam i am!!!

    I love spam!

    SPAM!!!

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  177. Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

    Ever notice how many slang words (of any era) are just different ways of saying “good” and “bad”? In Polly Shulman’s book Enthusiasm, the words are “crisp” and “igsome” (exclamatory form, “Ig!”). Polly made them up, but I think they’re crisp and intend to start using them.

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  178. sweet melpomene says:

    new slang words! huzzah! crispy! definately not igsome!

    did i use them correctly?

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  179. Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

    “Crisp,” not “crispy.” Other than that, perfect.

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  180. Purple Panda says:

    I’ve never heard of Crisp/y

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  181. sweet melpomene says:

    oh, ok! crisp!

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  182. Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

    PP (182),

    It’s from Polly Shulman’s book Enthusiasm.

    By the way, Polly reminds me that the proper intensifying adverb to use with “crisp” is not “totally,” but “loudly.” Loudly crisp!

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  183. King george the stroodle says:

    I didn’t make this up, but I like to say it. ploglot. polyglot. polyglot. and now, for the final fanaly……!!!!!!! and wasn’t that an igsome fanaly? (is that right?) oh, you didn’t hear it? It was—campabalation= and random idea that apears when you are camping!

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  184. Eccentric the Afterthought says:

    Antidisestablishmentarianism! That’s really, really fun to say five times fast. :D

    My English teacher claims that no one uses the word “enthused” anymore. Is that true?

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  185. Eccentric the Afterthought says:

    Also, as to post 173 – we didn’t learn them from the teacher; someone brought in a list from the internet we used. Unfortunately, all we ever learn formally is how to translate things like “Caesar killed this Gaul. Caesar killed that Gaul. Caesar went to Britain. Caesar conquered Britain. The Britons were angry.” and so forth, lol. One teacher did tell us that “git-r-done” was “facite!” in Latin, but that’s about it.

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  186. sweet melpomene says:

    polyglot is a cool word. loudly crisp! [i could really get used to this slang!!!!]

    my friend and i made up a word in 6th grade. oomskiday. [oohm-skih-day]. it could mean, um, anything. but it’s really fun to say.

    durst is a cool word, too. “durst you!”=”you dare!”

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  187. Purple Panda says:

    No, I’ve never heard of the word crisp used as slang..I know the original meaning, but nothing else.

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  188. Gwendolyn of the Eastern Seas says:

    I made up the following word:

    Ruhduhduhduhduhsplee!!!!!!

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  189. Taiwan Hippo Fan says:

    (186)No, not at all! I like trying to use it, and my mom uses it all the time! (‘all the time’ meaning ‘as much as any synonym to ‘enthused’)

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  190. Taiwan Hippo Fan says:

    What is that book, Enthusiasm, about?
    p.s. ‘crisp’, ‘igsome’, and ‘loudly’ are interesting words

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  191. Purple Panda says:

    I like the word, “Tangent” It’s cool

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  192. sweet melpomene says:
  193. E~A (Elassë~Ade'ehl) says:

    449th for Sally on the list Robert gave

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  194. lackadaisical emogrl says:

    i heart that word! example: my friend + i were lackadaisical this morning in physics.

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  195. Otzi says:

    IIIIII like the word
    Sumimasen
    (SP?)
    Which is Japanese
    And means “Excuze me”

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  196. sweet melpomene says:

    196-that word rocks

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  197. WizGirl says:

    In 3rd grade in my journal I would make up a word everyday. It ranged from alien plants, so weird types of rocks. :D

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  198. Eccentric the Afterthought says:

    Sounds fun, WizGirl! My journal is boring.

    Here’s a word I’m curious about: snarky. I hear it a lot, but my dictionary doesn’t have a definition for it. What does it mean and where did it come from?

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  199. Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

    “Snarky” is a recent addition to the language, still semi-slangy. Only the very latest editions of printed dictionaries are likely to define it, but you might have better luck online.

    I haven’t looked it up, but it sounds like a British import. People usually use it to mean snide, mean-spirited, catty, carping, cutting, sarcastic–usually in describing something spoken or written (“a snarky letter/review/remark”) rather than a person, though I suppose you could say “stop being so snarky.”

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  200. King george the stroodle says:

    how is loudly interesting?

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  201. sweet melpomene says:

    snarky is a cool word. i’ve read it online on quite a few sites, but never actually incorporated it into my speech…

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  202. Purple Panda says:

    There’s a character in Peter Pan named Starkey !!!

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  203. Purple Panda says:

    HAPPY EARTH DAY!!!

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  204. Skipper Nancy says:

    I have a question does the latin root terre have any relation to tri because Earth is the 3rd planet from the sun?

    I guess the smart thing to do would be to google or wiki this.
    Well, I typed it so I’l post it anyway.

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  205. Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

    This question might be hard to answer on the Web. But you might start by asking yourself when people figured out that Earth is a planet that orbits the sun.

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  206. Purple Panda says:

    Can you answer it?

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  207. Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

    Yes.

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  208. Eccentric the Afterthought says:

    Yay, “snarky” makes a lot more sense to me now. Thanks!

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  209. Skipper Nancy says:

    (207). Good point. It’s just that I got confused. The other day somedody used the word “tertiary” to desribe the something that was third (like primary, secondary, tertiary)
    but tertiary also to refers to something that is of the/related to the Earth. (doesnt it?) I was trying to figure out how they were related.

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  210. Robert Coontz (Administrator) says:

    “Tertiary” does mean “third.” The word for something of or related to the Earth is “terrestrial.”

    There’s a Tertiary Period in the geologic time scale. It refers to things that happened between about 2 million and 65 million years ago–after the dinosaur extinctions, but before the beginning of the most recent ice age. Geologists and paleontologists use “Tertiary” when talking about rocks that formed then, the fossils inside them, and the animals and plants that lived then. You may have heard the word in that context.

    (Earlier versions of the time scale included Primary and Secondary periods, too, but they were scrapped in favor of more-precise time units as scientists learned more details about Earth’s history.)

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  211. Cedar says:

    Bonobo.

    The very word is attractive.

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  212. Yoyo power!!! says:

    I got these out of a magazine. (i’m i alowed to do that???)

    videotato-someone always playing video games
    flubabubba-bubblegum in the bubble postion
    slushcube-figure it out!

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  213. Yoyo power!!! says:

    hey- i wanna see someone define “irony”- any takers??

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  214. 100% cotton says:

    caucaphony (sp?), persimmon, fie, wrangling queen, Cleopatra, Antony, Petra, Skrae

    215:life

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  215. Purple Panda says:

    irony. hmm. in my dictionary, it says:::::

    i·ro·ny
    n. pl. i·ro·nies
    The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
    An expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning.
    A literary style employing such contrasts for humorous or rhetorical effect. See Synonyms at wit1.
    Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs: “Hyde noted the irony of Ireland’s copying the nation she most hated” (Richard Kain).
    An occurrence, result, or circumstance notable for such incongruity. See Usage Note at ironic.
    Dramatic irony.
    Socratic irony.
    irony

    n 1: witty language used to convey insults or scorn; “he used sarcasm to upset his opponent”; “irony is wasted on the stupid”; “Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own”–Johathan Swift [syn: sarcasm, satire, caustic remark] 2: incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; “the irony of Ireland’s copying the nation she most hated” 3: a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs

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  216. KillerQueen says:

    Weird names appear to abound in the world of musicians from the ’70s and ’80s. Roger Taylor of Queen had 5 kids, their names being:
    – Felix Luther
    – Rufus Tiger
    – Tigerlily
    – Rory Eleanor
    – Lola Daisy May

    Lord knows where he came up with those.

    But George Harrison’s son has an AWESOME name: DHANI!! I love it sooooooooo much and I don’t even know why! It’s awesome, it sounds Indian or Hindi.

    Freddie Mercury (awesome name in itself!) was born with an odd name, too: “Farrokh Bulsara”. and Gene Simmon’s birth name was something strange, too.

    And I LOVE Phil Medley’s last name, but it seems a tad cheesey for the guy who co-wrote “Twist and Shout”. Like “Alto Reed” – the guy who did the MUSIC for Escanaba In Da Moonlight.

    But Frankly, Zappa has the strangest names for his kids:
    – Moon Unit
    – Dweezil
    *Excuse the annoying word-play I stuck in there…*

    My cousin’s baby’s name is Finian, because her husband’s Irish.
    Then, of course, Finn’s cousin’s name is Anna.

    I’ll simply excuse the names celebraties are coming up with now. Yes. their names are weird, but must the majority of America’s public make such a fuss about them? Yes, I make a fuss about my luvs’ kids names, but I’m not exactly the majority of America’s media.

    My favourite names [for boys] are:
    -Dhani
    -Farrokh
    -Ferris

    For girls:
    -Krishna (technically unisex)
    -Stella
    -Vera

    But I also like Michelle, Cameron, Simone, Simon, Sloane, Mical, Elora, Danae, Mara (my name!), Felicity, Ruby, Adam, Paul, James, Winston, Wayne, Kalpana, Jean Pierre, Maya, John, Ambrosia, Penelope and Aphrodite (for some reason I like Greek names).

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  217. KillerQueen says:

    Since some of those are forgien, I’l provide pronounciation.
    Farrokh: FAR-ock
    Kalpana: KULP-na
    Dhani (just how it looks): duh-HAN-ee
    Jean Pierre is French, so that might help.
    Though its not really forgien, everyone mis-pronounes my name, so its MAR-a, not MAIR-a.

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  218. KillerQueen says:

    Forgot….I also like the name Ani (AH-nee).

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  219. KillerQueen says:

    Agrajagg and Slartibartfast are also RAD names, along with Trillian and Ford Prefect:)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  220. KillerQueen says:

    Words.
    Words rock.
    I believe I made that intelligent observation a little over a year ago.

    My fav words are mostly, here, abbriged version:
    – peradventure (thank Sir Paul for bringing that word back into use! I’m sure you’ve heard some Macca Maniac say that more often than not…)
    – innuendo
    – ecstasy
    – rhapsody
    – hort-gorble
    – befuddled
    – fatigued
    – dear
    – splendid
    – love (pronounced ‘luv’)
    – radical
    – outrageous
    – shalom
    – contribute*
    – insinuate
    – psychedellic
    – bothersome

    Now for ones my friends and I have more or less came up with:
    – boo-pop
    – poosh
    – gullumba
    – squee
    – cheez (of course, there are different levels of cheez, different kinds)

    Words my friends and I use to decribe anything and everything:
    – flaming
    – special
    – evil
    – bothersome
    – awesome (yes, we are 8th and 9th graders!!)
    – creepy
    – disturbing

    There must be more, but these are the ones I can think of at the moment.

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  221. Lizzie says:

    218- Um, Dhani sounds Indian because it was made from two notes of the Indian music scale, dha and ni. He’s fairly pretty also- he looks a lot like George. George is prettier, though..
    If we’re talking about musician’s names, I personally like Thelonious Sphere Monk III.

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  222. KillerQueen says:

    Thelius Grenon is a cool musician’s name, too.

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  223. 100% cotton says:

    robert, i might have said this before but serendipity is also cottons favoirite word. :)

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  224. hayad says:

    wat dose my name meen

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  225. Taiwan Hippo Fan says:

    OMG I HAVEN’T BEEN HERE IN AGES AND NO ONE ELSE HAS EITHER!!!!!!

    I got here by way of a link from Robert on the Coy Woodnesse thread that no one goes on. :P

    221 – Slartibartfast is the coolest name ever! Awesome!

    219 – People actually misprobounce that name? Wow. :( Some people mispronounce my name a little. It’s Anna, but some people pronounce it like Ana or Aaana. “Aaaa” as in “Ahhhhhh, we’re being chased by the Loch Ness Monster that doesn’t exist!!!!!!!!!!”

    I pronounce “Pwt” like “Put”, but with more of a w-sounding u. I pronounce “Pwn” similarly, with a “u” sound as in “put” (“put” that away) for the w, so it sounds like pun. But with a different u sound.

    111 – I miss you, PSPoP/Y4HPB! I :&hearts: your name.

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  226. elassë~adael (alise~adae) says:

    we should have another words thread. And what do people think of the name Autumn?

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