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• 1 day ago, frogapplause said:
  
  mollusque: Thanks for another gag idea.
• 3 days ago, uselessness said: I replied on my profile. Or was I supposed to reply here? I don't remember how these things work!
• 8 days ago, tiara said: Hello, thanks for the heads up. I am completely new to this and.. I can not edit for I keep getting stuck now on my word list. Not sure if something is wrong with the server or what. I hope to finish my word list some time. I have been working on it for a while now.
• 11 days ago, Prolagus said: Alas - as a matter of fact, strong pre-zygotic barriers make it hard for me and my S.O. to experience paraphyly.
• 12 days ago, Prolagus said: Your comment on chained_bear's newly acquired paraphyly generated two big laughs in this abode.
• 23 days ago, ruzuzu said: Thank you for adding some verses to my list.
  
  I greatly enjoy reading your lists and your comments.
• 28 days ago, mollusque said: Thanks, gangerh! It seems to happen about once a year. See mollusque baugh.
• 29 days ago, gangerh said: I played with your name. 
  
• about 3 months ago, reesetee said: Ah. Okay. Neither did I, actually.
• about 3 months ago, chained_bear said: Yes, I mean I didn't recognize it at first as one of my own.
• about 3 months ago, reesetee said: C_b, that's your 20,000th word. Some kind of prehistoric Italian, I think. ;-)
• about 3 months ago, chained_bear said: I didn't either. Are those the 20,000th words for each of us?
  *had no idea about devincenzia, which sounds like an Italian surname*
  
  Edit: Oops. Just saw the later comments on reesetee's profile. Sorry... :)
• about 3 months ago, reesetee said: Haha! I didn't know you were tagging them--great idea!
• about 3 months ago, mollusque said: Thanks, reesetee and c_b. FYI, leagues joins swim and devincenzia on the 20K list.
• about 3 months ago, chained_bear said: Happy round number!
  
  ... remember when Wordie was just a teeny-tiny wonderland, and we all thought stpeter's list was incredibly long at 3,000 words? *marvels*
• about 3 months ago, reesetee said: Another member of the 20,000+ Club! Congrats!
• about 3 months ago, bilby said: 20 big ones, moll! A lot of panvocalic work has gone into that :-) Well done.
• about 5 months ago, chained_bear said: mollusque, in a work-related (I swear) conversation today, someone said that clams can use their pseudopod to "walk" along surfaces, as well as being capable of locomotion through ... um... squirting stuff. Is this true? Please tell me more about clams. (Perhaps I should have posted this on the clam page.)
• about 8 months ago, fbharjo said: thanks for the suggestions on liminal words list
• about 8 months ago, frogapplause said: a little gift for you
• about 8 months ago, bilby said: autotomaton is great :-)
• about 8 months ago, mollusque said: “Meana, who serves with Chivers on the board of Archives of Sexual Behavior, entered the field of sexology in the late 1990s and began by working clinically and carrying out research on dyspareunia — women’s genital pain during intercourse.�?
  
  The New York Times, What Do Women Want?, by Daniel Bergner, January 22, 2009
• about 8 months ago, bilby said: "A younger generation has now taken to giving their children WASPy first names, so that today one runs into such comic nomenclatural pairings as Tyler Ginsberg, Mackenzie Rosenthal, Hunter Fefferman, Kelly Rabinowicz and other such preposterosities."
  —Joseph Epstein, "'Uncle Bernie' and the Jews," Newsweek, January 19, 2009
• about 10 months ago, vanishedone said: Just to let you know, I've decided OCSJTS had better have a list of its own, to which you've been added as a contributor.
• about 11 months ago, bilby said: If only I could remember! I know it had something to do with the Latin root of mollusk and a word that involved goose fat. I can't find or recall the word even though I randomed it quite recently.
  
  But I'm not suggesting you're a goose, moll ;-)
• about 1 year ago, Prolagus said: Mollusque,
  What do "w-d-720" and similar tags mean?
• about 1 year ago, mollusque said: Have a lurk see?
• about 1 year ago, Prolagus said: See lurk.
• about 1 year ago, reesetee said: Well, I was in a rush this morning so I didn't brush my top left cuspid properly and then the last wisdom tooth has come up only half way through my gum. That's a serious penalty. They suggested I buy a motorised toothbrush - even recommended one. It's called "Super sparkle spinning plaque destroyer!™"
• about 1 year ago, bilby said: Hard to imagine, isn't it? As per Pro's suggestion, my registration email shows I joined Wordie on 11 December 2006. I am almost 2!
• about 1 year ago, bilby said: Also see [déjà vu].
• about 1 year ago, bilby said: How old are we? 2?
• about 1 year, 1 month ago, chained_bear said: congrats in advance, mollusque. :)
• about 1 year, 1 month ago, Prolagus said: I have a gift for you on facebook, my friend.
• about 1 year, 1 month ago, Prolagus said: mollusque! I can't believe your facebook link is broken! See faq.
• about 1 year, 1 month ago, wordwench said: Actually the OED conflates the genus and the common noun. What it says under 'spherulite' is:
  
  2. Palæont. (With capital initial.) A genus of fossil molluscs.
  In early use in L. form Sphærulītēs.
  
  1834 GRIFFITH tr. Cuvier XII. 92 Sphærulites,..where the valves are roughened by irregularly raised plates. 1841 MILLER O.R. Sandst. viii. 153 The hippurites, sphærulites, and nummulites of the same formations, in Greece, Italy, and Spain. 1847 ANSTED Anc. World x. 241 One such genus is called Sphærulite... They seem most nearly allied to the inhabitants of those univalve shells of which the limpet is the present representative.
  —OED
  
  Presumably the 'early' form Sphaerulites had precedence so has been restored as the genus name over Sphaerulite, but the common noun for a member of it (as in their Miller quotation) is 'sphaerulite' or 'spherulite'.
• about 1 year, 2 months ago, treeseed said: Thank you for the warm welcome back, mollusque.
• about 1 year, 4 months ago, bilby said: Hi. Would you like to be on Identify the Wordie #2? You'll need to email identifythewordie@yours.com with your Wordie nick and the single word that best describes you. Cheers!
• about 1 year, 4 months ago, reesetee said: Wowee! Congrats, m! *not feeling so lonely anymore*
  
  Bilby: Are you implying that I have emtnal dagmae? Bite yuor tonque!
• about 1 year, 4 months ago, bilby said: Such precision in the achievement! I would not have accepted anything less.
  *puts a gold star on mollusque's work*
• about 1 year, 4 months ago, mollusque said: Thanks, bilby, sionnach, and she! A couple of months ago I'd planned to make splendaciously my 10,000th word, but last week I discovered proceduralist. Given its suffix and my elaborate procedures for finding panvocalics, it seemed apt.
  
  Splendaciously was 9,999, referring to reesetee's splendiferous and buckaroo was 10,001, for sionnach's banzai.
• about 1 year, 4 months ago, she said: Happy 10,000th! (Sheesh, you're old.)
• about 1 year, 4 months ago, sionnach said: Yea, mollusque! way to go. What was your 10,000th word?
  
  Oh, bilby, you are so dorll!
• about 1 year, 4 months ago, bilby said: Wow, the third Wordie to scale the grand heights of 10000! Take a bow, moll-moll! Note: be careful, the air must be thin up there. You can see the mental damage incurred by reesetee and sionnach.
• about 1 year, 4 months ago, skipvia said: She--you might enjoy the discussion on verbing. Or try nouning...
• about 1 year, 4 months ago, she said: Unless you've gotten all tricksy and changed your first and last name in the last week, we are most likely not siblings! But give my compliments to your sister on her word selection. (Is there a linguistic term for using an existing noun as a verb? Hm.)
• about 1 year, 4 months ago, frogapplause said: Mollusque: Why don't you have a monovocalic polyglot list? I wanted to suggest the Icelandic word "framhaldssaga" which means SERIAL (story).
• about 1 year, 5 months ago, Prolagus said: Sometimes (just like now) mollusque is like a silent mouse, who works when nobody is looking at him, and you would never know he's around... but then you find his traces right on the baseboard. In this case, the one on the left of the main page.
• about 1 year, 5 months ago, mollusque said: Thanks, oroboros! I mined that site when I made my Typewriter words list, but hadn't realized it was Chris Cole's.
• about 1 year, 5 months ago, oroboros said: Mollusque: you might be interested to look at taxonomy of wordplay.