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Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:21:39 +0000

Lots of delayed cargo lately, yarb?

Comment by yarb, about 1 year ago

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:59:30 +0000

This week I've been thinking about demurrage.

Comment by trivet, about 1 year ago

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:43:41 +0000

How very illuminating. Thank you, my furry friends!

(Special thanks to the bear for all the citations...)

Comment by chained_bear, about 1 year ago

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:13:59 +0000

Ooh! *pilfers for own list*

Comment by sionnach, about 1 year ago

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:47:57 +0000

mmmm ... snausages

Checks to see if someone has taken umbrage yet. Nope, guess it's still there.

Comment by bilby, about 1 year ago

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:07:46 +0000

saxifrage, manurage, grattage, thanage, dumpage, eatage, hersage, bricolage, ramage, lactage, viduage, curettage, ambage, keelage, soccage, careenage, foggage, imposturage, lockage, panderage, rubbage.

Comment by seanahan, about 1 year ago

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:25:00 +0000

It seemed to work to make me cooler (relatively, of course) when I was 14, but I think that these days it wouldn't work. For words where the "age" suffix wouldn't work, we used "action". So instead of bondage, you'd have bond-action, or for barrage, barrage-action.

Comment by trivet, about 1 year ago

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:55:58 +0000

Thanks, y'all!

Comment by skipvia, about 1 year ago

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:06:31 +0000

Well, I tried it with my broker. I wanted to acquire some US Treasuries, so I asked her if she would be into a little bondage. She threw me out.

I guess I'm just not as cool as seanahan...

Comment by sionnach, about 1 year ago

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:41:47 +0000

It's a fine line; pile on too much wordage and suddenly you've crossed that threshold into bloviage. Where the toll for all that excess verbal baggage can cost you some serious coinage.

Comment by skipvia, about 1 year ago

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:50:57 +0000

Did it work, seanahan? Because I might want to try it to increase my, ummm, coolage.

Comment by seanahan, about 1 year ago

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:26:46 +0000

When I was around 14 my friends and I used to use -age as a suffix for just about everything, to denote coolness.

Comment by sionnach, about 1 year ago

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:56:40 +0000

gavage (not so nice if you're a rodent or a goose). Then there is the more specialized subset here:

XX-age

Comment by trivet, about 1 year ago

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:20:32 +0000

oooh, thank you! I'm glad I learned about the right to carry things where one will!

Comment by asativum, about 1 year ago

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:25:33 +0000

There's also lastage, a kind of transport fee.

Comment by trivet, over 2 years ago

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:53:28 +0000

Thanks, sionnach. And chained_bear, I don't know how I missed your OED delvings - I've always enjoyed -age for its ability to connotate stuff/ness and now I know why. Cool.

Comment by sionnach, over 2 years ago

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:17:45 +0000

persiflage, and the closely related badinage

Comment by chained_bear, over 2 years ago

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:21:57 +0000

I found an interesting usage note in the OED for the suffix "-age." Even though it isn't a suggestion, it seems like it might belong here. I humbly submit:

suffix of abstr. nouns, originally in words adopted from Fr., afterwards a living Eng. formative. (OFr. -age: late L. -ticum, a favourite termination of abstr. ns. of appurtenance, and collectives; orig. neuter of adjectives in -tic-us. Cf. cl. L. silv-ticus of the wood (silva), It. selv-aggio, Pr. salv-atge, Fr. sauv-age, Eng. sav-age, with viticus of or pertaining to a journey (via), viticum that which pertains to a journey, provision for the way, later the making of a journey, Pr. viatge, It. viaggio, Fr. viage, voyage; umbrticus of or pertaining to the shade, shady (umbra), late L. umbrticum that which is shady, shadiness, a mass of shade, Fr. ombrage, Eng. umbrage. Afterwards a common formative in Fr. itself, as in entour-age; thence readopted in med.L. as -gium: cf. homgium, carigium, formed on Fr. hommage, cariage, which if formed in L. would have been *hominticum, *carricticum.)

1. From names of things, indicating that which belongs to or is functionally related to... (e.g. language)
2. From names of persons, indicating function, sphere of action, condition, rank... (e.g. orphanage, vassalage)
3. From verbs expressing action... (e.g. damage, marriage)

Isn't that cool? I had no idea. What an awesome language we have.

Comment by uselessness, over 2 years ago

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:05:39 +0000

I told you they were wild. ;-)

Comment by trivet, over 2 years ago

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:45:39 +0000

Thanks for your wild suggestions, u, but I'm only listing -age suffixes. -rage, -phage, and -stage are for someone else to take on. And I just don't like marriage, etc - too average, I guess.

Comment by uselessness, over 2 years ago

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:16:09 +0000

Well then, how about frontage, anchorage, and storage? If you really are at all interested in walking on the wild side (though apparantly marriage and average are too wild?) perhaps you might consider backstage, xylophage, and enrage?

Comment by trivet, over 2 years ago

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:09:12 +0000

Thanks! I hadn't realized just how many -age words there are. I'll take any and all that I like, however strange, but reserve the right to exclude average, advantage, percentage and the like - just cause I don't like the way they look.

Comment by chained_bear, over 2 years ago

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:48:39 +0000

orphanage, parsonage, porterage? Message, passage, pilgrimage, postage? Advantage, equipage?

I found a number of very weird and probably obsolete terms, if you're interested.

Also I noticed you have wreakage but not wreckage.

Comment by chained_bear, over 2 years ago

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:44:44 +0000

Hey. I take umbrage at that. (Not really, and also I know it's already on your list. But how often does one get to use the word umbrage anyway? You can't blame me for grabbing the opportunity.)

You do have verbiage and foliage as well, even though you've declined carriage and marriage. Hmm... how about potage, tonnage, voyage, plumage?

Comment by uselessness, over 2 years ago

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:11:16 +0000

In a similar statistical vein, how about percentage?

Comment by sionnach, over 2 years ago

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:03:02 +0000

umbrage, spillage, frottage, spoilage, foliage, greengage, collage :}

and how could I, as a statistician, forget average

Comment by valse, over 2 years ago

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:34:32 +0000

vintage, lineage, rampage. I have to suggest, though I wouldn't blame you for not accepting it: pwnage

Comment by abraxaszugzwang, over 2 years ago

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:24:40 +0000

well, if you don't like marriage, how about mirage?

Comment by trivet, over 2 years ago

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:19:46 +0000

So many wordsies! Thank you all. C-b, I do have something against marriage - I just don't like the -riage (except maybe for triage). Also, I'm going for polysyllabic and stuff-related rather than time-related -ages.

Comment by chained_bear, over 2 years ago

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:59:06 +0000

Do we have something against marriage?

Comment by valse, over 2 years ago

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 07:43:25 +0000

package, footage, stockage, underage, overage, coverage...oo, and pillage

Comment by reesetee, over 2 years ago

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 07:21:09 +0000

portage, carriage

Comment by abraxaszugzwang, over 2 years ago

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 22:47:20 +0000

suffrage, outrage, page, rage, cage, sage (do you want those itsy bitsy ones?) Hmmm, Power outage? seepage (gross), luggage, cabbage, ravage

Comment by abraxaszugzwang, over 2 years ago

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 22:43:46 +0000

Two from my list: shrinkage and vagabondage.
then, of course, there's just regular bondage. And baggage.