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A list of 608 words by whichbe.

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  • yarb Please do start talking about Platonic idealism!

    Did you get the old Urquhart / Motteux translation of Rabelais? Dec 18, 2010

  • ruzuzu I could start talking about Platonic idealism, but I'll just admit to you now that by "copy," I mean that I purchased paperback versions.

    Sorry--one step at a time. Dec 18, 2010

  • yarb A copy? You should have got the real thing. Dec 17, 2010

  • ruzuzu Got it. I also picked up a copy of Ulysses. Dec 17, 2010

  • yarb (not to be confused with the pre-internet "The Manuscript Found in Saragossa") Dec 17, 2010

  • yarb Of course by "everyone" I really mean "I".

    Obviously Shakespeare, Ulysses, the verse of Gavin Ewart and maybe Byron, Orwell's essays, the Shorter OED, Don Quixote in the Smollett translation and Teh Manuscript Found in Saragossa. Dec 17, 2010

  • ruzuzu Ach! Fine. Okay. I just called, and they have a copy at my favorite locally-owned bookstore.

    Um... what are the other four or nine books that everyone should really own in hardback? Dec 17, 2010

  • yarb It's actually one of only five or ten books that everyone should really own in hardback. Dec 17, 2010

  • ruzuzu Madmouth--I keep seeing references to Gargantua and Pantagruel, thinking I should read it, then forgetting about it again, but your precise citation is making me think I should run over to the library ASAP. Dec 17, 2010

  • madmouth Urquhart's translation of "Gargantua and Pantagruel" features bestunk. More precisely:

    In shitting yes'day I did know
    The sess I to my arse did owe:
    The smell was such came from that slunk,
    That I was with it all bestunk:
    O had but then some brave Signor
    Brought her to me I waited for,
    In shitting!
     Apr 24, 2009

  • mollusque MW3 has becall, becoom, becross, bedabble, . . . Dec 16, 2008

  • rolig Check out my comment at eldorado. Sep 4, 2008

  • bilby bestale Aug 31, 2008

  • whichbe *phew*! The last 330 of these words were graciously contributed by she via the OED. Aug 7, 2008

  • she Beautiful! Aug 6, 2008

  • gangerh Beatle? Atle is a class of icebreaker. Aug 5, 2008

  • bilby There betruth in that. Aug 5, 2008

  • whichbe This list is madness now. Aug 5, 2008

  • darqueau besmeared Aug 5, 2008

  • gangerh And pride prevents 'beital'. A question which( )be answered 'albeit'! May 6, 2008

  • gangerh I'm sure modesty has thus far prevented the addition to this list of 'bewhich'! May 6, 2008