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• 1 day ago ruzuzu said
  Thanks for banana bird and bananaquit.
  
  I understand about wanting to quit bananas--I'm just beginning to form a hypothesis about cilantrophilia and bananophobia... any thoughts?
• 2 days ago mollusque said
  Actually, I didn't start the convowel tagging, Bri did.
• 2 days ago mollusque said
  Thanks for the birdwirds, hernesheir! I will eventually root them out of your lists, so don't feel obligated, but I do appreciate the updates of your finds, particularly the new euryvocalic patterns. Is there a particular kind you want me to flag for you?
  
  Belated congratulations on pushing past 2000 convowel patterns. Quite a jump from 25 days ago!
• 7 days ago reesetee said
  *resolves to become one of hh's book-worthy friends*
• 7 days ago ruzuzu said
  Thanks, hh. I've updated "more about ruzuzu" accordingly.
• 8 days ago reesetee said
  I have to hand it to you--the hand list is fun!
• 8 days ago frogapplause said
  Fascinating, hernesheir. Thank you!
• 8 days ago frogapplause said
  Do you know what produces this color of rock? link.
• 9 days ago reesetee said
  H, my No Ap-ology list may provide fodder for your Collectivist Cultures. :-)
  
• 10 days ago oroboros said
  Thanks for the input (for toot-toot list), hernesheir.
• 10 days ago ruzuzu said
  Duly noted.
• 10 days ago oroboros said
  Yay, cilantro!
• 11 days ago bilby said
  It's a cered question, isn't it?
• 11 days ago mollusque said
  I think "ceratious" and "ceratiously" are OCR errors for vexatious and vexatiously.
• 11 days ago mollusque said
  Are you explicitly collecting euvocalic misspellings and misprints? If so, maybe you should have a separate list for them.
• 12 days ago mollusque said
  Thanks for the updates! I think both wyes should be tagged for Xyrichtys melanopus. Since it's not euryvocalic, I don't count it as having one of the 720 arrangements of the six vowels.
• 13 days ago mollusque said
  You seem to have developed the knack as well! Before I noticed your comment on my profile I'd already pulled creatinous, aneuronic, pyrometallurgist (I had pyrometallurgic], physioneural, and polymetallurgic (a new euryvocalic pattern) off the Zeitgeist page .
  
  I passed on taurodine (as explained there), and used the capitalized form of pleuronian (and Pleuronia as well).
• 16 days ago mollusque said
  Yes, the hyphenated forms usually appears first, but I don't list them, unless they're forms unlikely to lose the hyphen (e.g., soul-searchingly), in which case they go on Panvocalic phrases, or are proper names (e.g., Duplessis-Mornay, Port-au-Prince). Of course, that gives you and ruzuzu more room to romp . . .
• 16 days ago mollusque said
  Hi hernesheir, I have ultrarevolutionaries unhyphenated. Your discovering it independently is amazing! (I picked it up off a word records website a couple of years ago.)
• 16 days ago ruzuzu said
  Thank you, hernesheir - you and mollusque are marvelous. Something tells me I'm not going to be able to duplicate your zeal, but at least now I can see what you two are up to and appreciate it all even more.
• 17 days ago ruzuzu said
  Hi hernesheir, I have a question for you about Eubetia boop and the panvocalic tag (which might be a good name for the band I'm starting, etc. etc.). Most of the things you've tagged panvocalic have just one word, except for Eubetia boop. I want to find some way to tag Sesuvium portulacastrum, and I'm wondering whether it could be panvocalic phrase or just panvocalic.
  
  Edit: Btw, Sesuvium portulacastrum is known as shoreline purslane (also panvocalic, but also two words).
• 17 days ago mollusque said
  I finally caught up with all your panvocalic plants (and other ponderable creatures), hernesheir. Thanks for helping to pushed my Panvocalic organisms list over 500 items!
  
  In the process, I saw some tags that you'll probably want to revisit. I've noted them temporarily in the list description.
• 19 days ago mollusque said
  . . . and for apneumonic. Go ahead and tag where you want. I re-enter the vowel tags for panvocalics if someone else beats me to them, hoping that someday it will again be possible to link to one's own tags separately from general tags.
  
• 19 days ago mollusque said
  Thanks for autostenting, hernesheir.
• 21 days ago mollusque said
  I happened to have an old list of reduplicatives in a file drawer, so I was happy to extract the hyphenated ones.
  
  How are you searching for palindromic convowel patterns? Are there particular ones you're still looking for. One of the things I like about convowel tagging is the serendipity of the words that group together.
• 23 days ago mollusque said
  Odd as it looks, ccvvvv for "clayey" seems right. I hadn't heard of "gleyey" but it looks like standard usage in books on soil.
• 25 days ago tonytam said
  Thanks for the notes about the bad century data. We're working on a total overhaul on that data but in the mean time, we've fixed the consanguineous and pyknotic issues.
• 26 days ago john said
  The 'cvcvcvcvcc' bug should be fixed now.
• 27 days ago john said
  That is strange, and I was able to duplicate. Thanks for the reports m & h, I'll look into tonight.
• 27 days ago mollusque said
  Nope, unable to tag beforehand with "cvcvcvcvcc", although I could tag it with "hand. That's a strange bug.
• 27 days ago mollusque said
  Yes, use the convowel tag if you're so inclined. We're at 1398 distinct patterns at the moment.
• 27 days ago mollusque said
  I tagged the louse with the pattern I was expecting; hope that makes it clearer.
  
  I haven't been doing much convowel tagging lately. At the moment, I'm tagging your newly found convowel patterns with "convowel". (It's easy to recognize them, as they're blue in my view of your tag list.)
• 27 days ago mollusque said
  Yo (Philadelphese for hello), hernesheir, thanks for retagging, but I was hoping you'd remove the half tags, to clean up the tag lists for aeoiu and yioeau.
  
  I see you've been bitten by the convowel bug and that I have to catch up on my tagging.
• 27 days ago mollusque said
  Ussolzewiechinogammarus and Haemodipsus lyriocephalus are great examples of reduplicatory multivocalness, hernesheir! I knew about Dybowski's predilection for long Gammarus names, but hadn't thought to search them for doubly panvocalic words. By the way, could you tag the full complement of vowels in the louse, rather than the half set?
• 28 days ago prolagus said
  Edit: sadly, it turned out to be a misspelling of -prologus. How unfortunate!
• 28 days ago prolagus said
  My aquatic doppelgänger?!
• 29 days ago janejetson said
  Loved your comment on hauyne. Science needs more humor.
• about 1 month ago ruzuzu said
  Thanks for helping with my Scrabble moolah! Just for you, here's a version of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary - it's the OSPD4.
• about 1 month ago PrincessStar said
  "China has at least a dozen cities with populations that exceed 5,000,000 people. (sic) Some you've probably never heard of, yet. " - hernesheir
  
  If only my intention was to list some of the most populous cities. For the moment, however, I am only interested in financially and strategically major cities.
  
  Thanks.
• about 1 month ago frogapplause said
  Do paleobotanists study coprolite? See here. Is there anything of interest for you to share about coprolite?
• about 1 month ago reesetee said
  My pleasure adding to the "big words" list. I was surprised at how many there are!
  
  I shall also add a link to your perponyms list on my Bad Guys list, so the circle will be complete. :-)
• about 1 month ago mollusque said
  If I were listing collateral adjectives I'd either use Wordnik's related word function, or put them into a list serially, e.g., Odd Anagrams. Or you could substitute a hyphen for the slash.
• about 1 month ago ruzuzu said
  Thanks for all of your contributions, too!
• about 1 month ago mollusque said
  So what were you using if not IPNI? Are you scanning visually, or querying a database?
• about 1 month ago mollusque said
  Thanks for the additions to the euryvocalic pattern list, hernesheir! Dicerocaryum was a new pattern as well. You've inspired me to resume the search for panvocalic animals. I've mined a lot them from ITIS. Are you working from IPNI? (BTW, check your tags on Hedraiostylus.)
• about 1 month ago mollusque said
  Hi, hernesheir. Good call on capitalizing the generic names. I went through my panvocalic lists maybe six months ago and reentered everything that should be capitalized. Unfortunately that ghosted some comments, but it allowed me to add vowel pattern tags for them. I didn’t tag them originally because Wordie didn’t allow capitalization and I didn’t want proper and common mixed together on the tag lists. Since Wordnik allows capitalization, they’re easy to distinguish on the lists.
  
  Might I suggest that in addition to or instead of commenting on the vowel pattern for genera, you tag them?
  
  I like the hierarchy. Maybe monovocalic and polyvocalic can be added. Here’s a cocktail napkin version: words (avocalic, vocalic (monovocalic, polyvocalic (panvocalic (supervocalic (euvocalic, euryvocalic ))))) .
  
  I’m not inclined to take the hierarchy past panvocalic (supervocalic (euvocalic, euryvocalic)). Alphavocalic and retrovocalic don’t have to apply only to panvocalics: for example “unhooked” or “captious” are alphavocalic. We could also distinguish euryvocalics where “y” is a vowel (phosphuranylite) from those where it’s a consonant (youngmanishness), but I don’t think we need mononyms to describe those situations.
  
  I’ve opened Supervocalic in waiting.
• about 1 month ago mollusque said
  Hernesheir, what do you think of generalizing supervocalic to include both euvocalic and euryvocalic: supervocalics would have each vowel once, with wye optional, euvocalics would exclude wye, and euryvocalics would have to have wye.
• about 1 month ago milosrdenstvi said
  Yay! What a wonderful mouthful! თვალჩრელიძე, I'd guess.
• about 1 month ago hernesheir said
  That is a remarkable find, mollusque!
• about 1 month ago mollusque said
  Here's a euvocalic mineralogical coincidence: chromium garnet = uvarovite.
• about 1 month ago mollusque said
  Glad to help. Let me know if you find anything that needs editing in my lists.
  
  Have you thought about tackling names of pharmaceuticals? I'll bet there are more panvocalics lurking there.
• about 1 month ago oroboros said
  Thanks, hernesheir, for your inputs on my "one for the money" list. I'll get to puttin' 'em in pretty soon, I hope! :o)
• about 1 month ago ruzuzu said
  Thanks for another fun list! There are some potato peelers in one of the songs from the album about Illinois....
• about 1 month ago Jubjub said
  I don't know how to express my gratefulness for all your entries on potatoes except by saying they made me quite hungry.
• about 1 month ago prolagus said
  Thanks for the nice thought, HH. I'm nothing but tired, right now. Can't wait to be done with it.
• about 1 month ago hernesheir said
  Agreed, john, Wordnik too.
• about 1 month ago john said
  Wordnik too :-)
• about 1 month ago chained_bear said
  Ahh, f#$% them. :) That's what Wordnik is for. Well... that's what Wordie was for, anyhow.
• about 1 month ago hernesheir said
  Thanks c_b! Sometimes I fear I bore everyone when shotgunning odd terms and comments into wild-hair lists.
• about 1 month ago chained_bear said
  Thanks for the pile of stuff you added. I love when I stop by and the front page is riddled with hernesheir-isms. :) So much fun to read!
• 5 months ago ruzuzu said
  It wasn't melty like queso quesadilla... it was more like cotija.
• 5 months ago hernesheir said
  Cheese from Chiapas. Now I'm both jealous AND hungry.
• 5 months ago ruzuzu said
  Did I tell you that I tried some cheese from Chiapas? Folks in Oaxaca say it's "muy rico."
• 6 months ago steves said
  Thanks for that - I'm a blues singer / guitarist and am just learning the song with a reference to a 'Barlow' i.e. Send me to the 'lectric chair. Googled barlow to see what it was
• 6 months ago prolagus said
  Please wrap your Shrimp-backed potato head tied-died egg noodle in brackets.
• 6 months ago mollusque said
  That makes you about the same vintage as me.
• 6 months ago bilby said
  Of course, Sir Les is our Minister for the Yartz!
• 6 months ago mollusque said
  Oooh!--with a squid association too!
• 6 months ago ruzuzu said
  Oh, yes, very nice. I was sure you were going to say banana ears.
• 6 months ago ruzuzu said
  Thanks, Hernesheir. I was sad when Safire died. It was heartening to see our Erin write an "On Language" column recently.
• 7 months ago hernesheir said
  Oh goody! - two new cheeses to add to my list. Thanks ruzuzu!
• 7 months ago ruzuzu said
  Speaking of Joseph Lister... have you heard of the mite-y cheeses Milbenkäse and Mimolette?
• 7 months ago hernesheir said
  I am a shamless poseur and lister, and I apologize without taking umbrage. *shambles off to stir mulled cider in one stockpot, and chicken broth in another*
• 7 months ago ruzuzu said
  For sham!
• 7 months ago possibleunderscore said
  I thought so...
  
  UMBRAGE!
• 7 months ago hernesheir said
  Guilty as charged, P_underscore.
• 7 months ago possibleunderscore said
  Your list seems to be shamfree!
  
  Edit: I demand real free!
  Your list, Herne's heir, is sham-free.
• 7 months ago ruzuzu said
  Oh! I forgot the poppy seeds!
• 7 months ago ruzuzu said
  Thanks, hernesheir! You've reminded me that I want to attempt to use the word za when I mean pizza--solely for the purpose of annoying my Scrabble opponents by using za as a two-letter word, of course. For instance, I could say that if I added some cheese and tomatoes to that strange loaf of sourdough-pesto-challah, it might taste like za.
• 7 months ago hernesheir said
  mollusque: thanks for the suggestion - I was only commenting on terms that had been listed several to many times, or those that struck me as interesting - turns out there were many comments - too many. Does Wordnik provide an opportunity to tag every term in a list? I can't seem to find that capability that I loved on Wordie. - HH
• 7 months ago mollusque said
  I think something else is being smoked (H, maybe tagging rather than commenting would suffice?)
• 7 months ago possibleunderscore said
  You can't smoke Brie, can you?
  
  (Eel?)
• 7 months ago hernesheir said
  I've recently enjoyed smoked Cheddar and smoked Gouda. Hats off to the person(s) who first decided to place curing cheeses in the smokehouse! Now if I could get my hands on some freshly smoked eel!
• 7 months ago ruzuzu said
  Have you sampled any other cheeses lately? I've been missing the random palavery.
• 8 months ago hernesheir said
  Sampled a great Dubliner cheese purchased at the Costco in Boise, Idaho recently. Sweet and Swissy in flavor. I especially liked the dryish almost crumbly texture that contrasts with the creamy holey Swiss style cheeses from the continent.
• 9 months ago ruzuzu said
  Thank you, hernesheir. I don't mind a bit... and, in turn, I hope you don't mind that I've been following your tweets, too.
• 10 months ago ruzuzu said
  Thank you for the nice comment on my list.
• 10 months ago prolagus said
  Hey. First time I read your profile. How interesting! I'm a PhD student currently working on urban ecology. Nice to meet a (sort of) colleague here!
• 10 months ago ruzuzu said
  Dear Herne the Hunter, thank you for helping me with my traps.
• 10 months ago chained_bear said
  You're getting close to Bicentennial Tag Day as well, hernesheir. :)
• 10 months ago sionnach said
  Yea, hh! Happy bicentennial. Just watch for the Y2K problem as you breeze into your third millennium. Or chiliad, if you prefer to be Greek about it.
  
  As I (apparently) said 8 months ago - your contributions are da bomb!
  
  But I know nothing of this Dublin coddle dish you seem to be partial to.
• 10 months ago hernesheir said
  I achieved the "American Bicentenial" of Wordie word submissions today - number 1976. Not an occasion for fireworks, and merely a drop in the bucket compared to the 20,000 word Wordie "framers", but still a milestone for me. I've so enjoyed all of you Wordies and all your words (and phrases, and madeupicals, and lists, and of course, your comments)! Celebrate Wordie with me today!
• 10 months ago hernesheir said
  Felicities to all ye Wordie-lubbers on this Int'l Talk Like a Pirate Day.
• 11 months ago hereticaneue said
  Thanks for your suggestions to my geology word list! I made the list public so feel free to add words to it. :)
• 12 months ago karamariek said
  thank you for the -ic words!
• over 1 year ago hernesheir said
  Done with cheese-listing for a bit: must tend to my Dublin Coddle and the oversized pork roast and vegs I'm cooking for the troops...Thanks for all your cheesy comments! --hernesheir
• over 1 year ago prolagus said
  Thank you for your cheese list! I have another Asperger-like list (i.e. a long list, not related to other Wordies' interests): Italian bread varieties.
• over 1 year ago hernesheir said
  OCD (see John's earlier comment, below:) OCD = Obsessive Cheeselisting Disorder
• over 1 year ago skipvia said
  And all manufacturers of dairy products.
• over 1 year ago prolagus said
  Yes!
• over 1 year ago hernesheir said
  Blessed are the Cheese Makers (and blessed be the cheese listers!) Cheese, for those who look on the brighter side of life.
• over 1 year ago john said
  Don's stop, hernesheir, Wordie feeds off your OCD! I'm really enjoying the deluge of cheese.
• over 1 year ago hernesheir said
  Folks - I acknowledge and solicit your patience - I'm shotgunning a kabillion cheese names into a list while piecing on a nice extra sharp New York cheddar. I'll tire or get bored soon!
• over 1 year ago hernesheir said
  Thanks, sionnach. I've wanted to ask you a question: Are you the person who posted a recipe for Dublin Coddle on another site last year?
• over 1 year ago sionnach said
  I would like to echo what c_b stated so eloquently; your contributions are da bomb!
  
• over 1 year ago chained_bear said
  May I take this opportunity to record something I've been thinking these last few weeks? The collection of terms and comments you have added to this site has been very interesting and eclectic. I am impressed and gratified by your contributions and look forward to future ones. :)
• over 1 year ago oroboros said
  Thanks for your input hernesheir. Some of 'em are already on my Toot toot, beep beep list.