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more about mollusque	My ideal list is composed of mononyms, has at least one word starting with each letter of the alphabet, and has at least one panvocalic. (After a month on Wordie, I see that I'm not as idealistic as the above suggests. You guys have loosened me up!) Contributions to my lists are welcome!
Comments for mollusque Please sign in or sign up to comment on this profile 8 days ago hernesheir said A "double euryvocalic"? - Leptotyphlops guayaquilensis - that's a first for me. 8 days ago hernesheir said I'll claim the 200,000th comment, for me or whomoever else made it, because I'm a Serious Pig, which by the way, is the title of a delightful book a dear friend just sent me. 8 days ago mollusque said Thanks, hernesheir! Did you notice that your comment was the 200,000th? Edit: or maybe not. The meter is still on 200,000. 8 days ago hernesheir said More euryvocalic patterns I've been sitting on for a few days: Pyrgus malvoides - yuaoie Pyrgus postpersica - yuoeia Pyrgus speciosa - yueioa Pyrriades juno - yiaeuo Pythonides juxta & Pythonides suppar - yoieua Synapte infusco - yaeiuo Thymelicus fornax & Thymelicus nova - yeiuoa Thymelicus major - yeiuao Tolype minuta, Tolype simulans, & Tolype viuda - oyeiua Dysauxes inops - yaueio Elysius proba - eyiuoa Tyria confluens - yiaoue Chytonix brunnea - yoiuea Clytie obscura - yieoua Cheers! - hh 15 days ago hernesheir said Finding some of these organism names in printed form may be problematic if only because the journals/articles or taxonomic notes in which they may have appeared are not yet indexed by "the internet". I agree that listing a name in an on-line database is not a valid publication of name - formally elevating a subspecies to full species status would require, under rules of nomenclature, "valid" publication. I agree with your caution about some of the names I've sent you - and your listing them as s-vocalics in waiting. I suppose I've been guilty of assuming or trusting that the folks making the databases that I've looked at have verified the status of the particular names they've included in their inventories. 16 days ago hernesheir said Patterns: Erynnis montanus - eyioau Erynnis zarucco - eyiaou Megathymus browni - eayuoi Polythrix calenus - oyiaeu Potanthus tytleri - oauyei These and other panvocalics from the (Lepidoptera) Hesperiidae I may have tagged as "moth" rather than "butterfly", which I'll soon rectify. 17 days ago hernesheir said Hi there! More patterns... Prionyx saevus - ioyaeu Hypancistrocerus - yaioeu Ambulyx philemon auyieo Madoryx butleri aoyuei I've been tagging monovocalics that have 5 or more consecutive vowels (sometimes a wye) as well. Cheers! 22 days ago hernesheir said All this time looking at and searching for panvocalics, and I only just today realized that my own name (first-middle-last) is euvocalic - iouea. What a forehead slap that was! The unexamined life, beginning with one's own name, is not worth living. Some more patterns: polyuremia - oyueia - see what you think. Thyreus picaron - yeuiao Corynura herbsti - oyuaei Cheers - hh 22 days ago hernesheir said Lygaeospilus - yaeoiu 22 days ago hernesheir said I'm trying not to incinerate myself and collapse in a heap of ashes over cinaceous. I respect your thorough research into this word (and the derivation from L. of other such words) and for now "stand pat" and "hold sway" until I come up with another challenge....of course we both know that using only on-line resources (at least, my first go, always, speaking for myself) is but a subset of all printed sources... that said, you're one-up (again) on this one! You...you...you Wordnik, you! 22 days ago hernesheir said I believe cinaceous is a somewhat archaic color term to acknowledge in your colors and panvocalic lists. See your and my recent comments on cinaceous. 22 days ago hernesheir said You certainly cast a very wide net for panvocalics, which I applaud you for - searching all those languages is awesome. I occasionally encounter a genus name in which the 5 vowels are in alphabetical order - that is a nice thing. Three more euvocalic patterns to add to the list as you approach the 300 mark. By my count, since my listing of tellurantimony some time ago, these three make 47 different unique-to-Wordnik patterns I've encountered so far. I'm very pleased to contribute to your lists as I encounter them: Myzus borealis - youeai Sphenorhina cygnus - eoiayu Dysmicoccus carens - yiouae I'm also pleased with the number of binomials I've found in which the 5 vowels occur exactly twice, listed in my "double euvocalics" list - just passed 40 entries there today. 24 days ago hernesheir said Thanks, moll. Those two names you couldn't confirm are from this inventory. 25 days ago hernesheir said Moll - More unique euryvocalic patterns from the organismal world: Gyna centurio - yeaoiu Eunyctibora - euyioa Hypnorna hummeli, Xylota flukei, et al. - yoauei Bombylius rhea - oyiuea Geron syriacus - eoyiau Systropus edwardi (and/or edwardsi) - youeai Buhromyiella - ouyiea Celyphus abnormis - eyuaoi Culex yaoi - ueyaoi Tachytrechus dios - ayeuio Mydas eupolis - yaeuoi Mydas fruhstorferi - yauoei Carinoclypeus - aioyeu Copestylum kahli - oeyuai Platycheirus troll - ayeiuo Chrysops bistellatus - yoieau Chrysops designatus - yoeiau Hybomitra vulpes - yoiaue Eurygastropsis - euyaoi Metagonistylum - eaoiyu 26 days ago Prolagus said Re: bilby, I would add that in Italian museografi can be translated as "museographist". (at first I thought you were talking about Italian words!) 26 days ago Prolagus said Not yet capitalized, alas... Here are the answers to your questions. babebibobu: sound effect, I'd say (but it could be teachers' jargon for some syllabication teaching method, according to some google results. Still, not an established word). assessorucci: legitimate construction ("petty councilors"). apicolture: plural of apicoltura (beekeeping), while apicoltore means beekeeper. caposervitù: legitimate construction (chief of servants). avvolgiture: legitimate plural of avvolgitura (wrapping up). arreionu: "line of reasoning" in Sardinian. arresignolu: "nightingale" in Sardinian (panvocalic animal!) centomilaun: alternative spelling of centomilauno (100.001), acceptable. uranometri: "uranometers". 26 days ago bilby said The -grafi suffix is quite productive, as in geografi and so on, and museum is standard. While I haven't come across museografi before - your area, not mine! - it looks fine to me; I can't imagine any other way of rendering museography. I'd give you naturalised. 28 days ago Prolagus said Here you are. 28 days ago Prolagus said Aiuole obliate gialle d'erba, sa Un cupo brusio smuovervi, allusione ad altre estati, cetonia blu-violetta enunciando noùmeni oscuri: tutto fu sarà ed è in circolo; dunque è sempre presente nelle eterne senescenze e effervescenze d'ere, nel serpente d'etere, seme, cenere, erbe secche. (Italo Calvino) 29 days ago hernesheir said Myrmecaphodius - yeaoiu Cryptocephalus distinctenotatus - all vowels twice. about 1 month ago mollusque said Thanks, John. It's working now, except when the word has diacritic marks or other special characters. about 1 month ago john said Hi mollusque, the 'move' function should be working again, thanks for the report. about 1 month ago hernesheir said Thanks so much for the congrats - I'm tickled to be adding bits to the magnificent corpus you've started and assembled! about 1 month ago hernesheir said Ceyx rufidorsa - eyuioa Griseotyrannus - ieoyau Necropsittacus rodericanus Certhiasomus stictolaemus about 1 month ago hernesheir said Tringa erythropus. iaeyou about 1 month ago frogapplause said about 1 month ago Prolagus said Never heard of it before, but I checked the catalog and they have it at the public library in my hometown. Where I'm going in seven days. :-) about 1 month ago hernesheir said Scylliogaleus about 1 month ago oroboros said Great work, mollusque! I can't say the whole sentence without taking a breath in there somewhere! :oD about 1 month ago john said Hi mollusque -- you can now filter tag pages by a specific user, as long as they have a public profile. Here's the form: http://www.wordnik.com/tags/food?created_by=john Sorry for the long delay on this, and please let me know if you see any quirks. about 1 month ago oroboros said Thanks, m. Pitch is added. Good one. about 1 month ago hernesheir said Found a strange euvocalic today: pseudoaphid, along with a bunch of euvocalics based on pseudo- a-i, i-a, which appear in my adjectival arcana and rillons of random palavery lists. Some fish binomials found in the last 2 days provide new euryvocalic patterns, if you deem them as such. They're on my Ponderable Zoological Names list. about 1 month ago oroboros said Hi, mollusque. This is right up your alley in case you haven't see it: Ross Eckler coined the sentence Unsociable housemaid discourages facetious behaviour. Each of the five words contains the five major vowels in a different order. (From futilitycloset.com) about 1 month ago john said Hi mollusque, my apologies for the long wait on per-user tag list links. I'm looking into it right now. about 1 month ago hernesheir said Not collecting misspellings and misprints of panvocalics, but they would make a nice list. Could you please try to verify "ceratious" and "ceratiously"? I see references in "Spiers and Surenne's French and English Pronouncing Dictionary" under the entry fâcheu-x, se, but can't discern whether the initial letter is "c" or "v". Thanks! about 1 month ago hernesheir said I sincerely appreciate your veracious checking of the misprints and misspellings that I've floated recently. Very menschlich and scholarly of you to do that. I've added quite a few panvocalic miscellanea today - you'll have to go back through the Zeitgeist record for most of them. about 1 month ago hernesheir said I found neurocranic, pseudolabrid, Coris venusta, and Xyrichtys melanopus. How to tag the last one? iyeaou would be a new pattern, but there is that other wye. For now I've tagged it ieaou. about 1 month ago hernesheir said suberation; chemo-, dermo-, and thermocaustic; femoralium, guitarones, caesorium, pluricostate, travertinous and eurychorial. Permacoustic and pre-acoustic are related "go-withs" at the panvocalic checkout counter. about 1 month ago hernesheir said You really have a knack for coming up with the panvocalics! I found creatinous, taurodine, aneuronic, pleuronian, pyrometallurgist(s), physioneural and troublemakingly today. The best: polymetallurgic. about 1 month ago hernesheir said Glad to have attested ultra-revolutionaries. On the subject of hyphenated vs. un-hyphenated (blatant hyphenation for irony's sake), I'm thinking that the hyphenated forms precede the unhyphenated ones in most cases - hyphens begin to fall away as the hyphenated terms become more common, at least within the respective jargons of the disciplines that the words are used in. Moreover, I think that more recent written English tends toward economy in this particular case. I've run across many examples of this phenomenon in the so called "arcane" adjectives I've been listing in these past days. To-day vs. today. about 1 month ago hernesheir said ultra-revolutionaries - doubly euvocalic word. about 1 month ago hernesheir said Thanks so much for finding and kindly suggesting corrections for my numerous bleary-eyed mistakes. Humbling for a supposed nitpicker to see his repeated carelessnesses! Corrections made. about 1 month ago ruzuzu said Thank you, mollusque. This will be fun! about 1 month ago ruzuzu said I'll ask hernesheir, too - it was the word abstemiousness that made me think about the fun you're both having with the tags for the panvocalics. about 1 month ago ruzuzu said So, okay, I'm starting to catch the panvocalic bug.... Do you have any preferences in your tagging? If I were to find a word with the letters a, e, i, o, and u, in that order, should I tag it aeiou, or panvocalic (or both)? And if it has any repeats (two e's, say), should it still be tagged? about 1 month ago hernesheir said yiuoae - Brycinus poptae eoayiu - Speoplatyrhinus about 1 month ago hernesheir said Eustomias problematicus - a species of barbeled dragonfish described in 2001. about 1 month ago hernesheir said I would rejoice to be shown an attested record of aecious. (See my comments for Aecious) - the first alphabetically-arranged euvocalic I could "invent" as pre-internet botany student in the early-1980's, after I realized/discovered that facetiously and abstemiously were just such words with that vowel pattern. Then you came along with your overwhelming systematic listings, and resparked that interest in panvocalics. about 1 month ago hernesheir said apneumonic - I added this term to my adjectives list. Go ahead and tag it as you prefer. about 1 month ago hernesheir said The shared buttress technique successfully autostents the healing eyelid margins, ... This allows for autostenting of the eyelids... about 1 month ago hernesheir said I too like the serendipitous grouping of words with the same convowel pattern. I've thought it might be fun to compose phrases, sentences or poems using the words within a pattern group. about 1 month ago hernesheir said I've no system whatsoever for searching the palindromous convowel patterns - just visual inspection of those patterns I run across as I'm adding to and tagging words on my lists - mostly the arcane adjectives at present. about 1 month ago hernesheir said Thanks for the great hyphenated exact reduplicatives! Maybe you've noticed I've been tagging convowel patterns that are palindromes of a sort. Next order of business is to tag those that exhibit an iterative cv combination, i.e., cvc/cvc/cvc or cvvc/cvvc. about 1 month ago frogapplause said about 1 month ago oroboros said Thanks, m., but I'm unclear how demo is contranymic. Demo as in demolish v. demo as promote? Btw, I'm a big fan of your work! about 1 month ago hernesheir said clayey ccvvvv? That's how I tagged both it and gleyey. 2 months ago hernesheir said Unable to tag limoniform with cvcvcvcvcc today. 2 months ago hernesheir said 1398 unique convowel patterns at the moment? Crikey, but not surprising given the number of words listed. I've tried all day to get Wordnik to allow me to tag "beforehand", but it just churns while I tag longer and shorter words in another "window". Don't know what its hang-up is about that word, yet. Perhaps you'd have better luck! 2 months ago hernesheir said Offending louse tag removed - so incorrect it was. Should I in future tag the convowel strings as "convowel"? 2 months ago hernesheir said Better louse tagging now? Hope I understood. 2 months ago hernesheir said Oh, by the way, I've been tagging some words by their "convowel" construction - I've assumed you've been doing the heavy lifting there and want to add to the corpus of tagged terms. I've gotten interested in those patterns as well, especially the easily noticed or palindromic ones that begin to be self-evident and interesting once one looks at patterns and not alphabets. 2 months ago hernesheir said Hey (southern US for "hello") moll - I tagged the reduplicative louse binomial as requested. I'm not sifting through zoological names, but happened across those terms and added them to my lists. I'm currently adding odd and arcane adjectives for now, and your euvocalic adjectives based upon categories of zoological taxa have not gone unnoticed - in fact, I've admired them. Seems the zoologists have the upper hand over the botanists in that regard. Cheers! 2 months ago hernesheir said Reticulomyxa - eiuoya addition to your pattern schema Haemodipsus lyriocephalus - aeoiu yioeau - doubly panvocalic. 2 months ago hernesheir said Ussolzewiechinogammarus - vowels 2X. One for MacDonald's Farm too. The subspecies of boat-billed heron Cochlearius cochlearius cochlearius is thrice euvocalic, but that's cheating, kinda. 2 months ago hernesheir said Gotta get me some kerseymere breeches. 2 months ago ruzuzu said Fbharjo seems to have decent luck with commas, if that helps. 2 months ago hernesheir said How should I try to list these collateral adjective word pairs so as to be both kind to Wordnik and useful? Any advice would be appreciated. I listed 3? euvocalics from the parrot and owl genera today - parked them on the Rillons of Random Palavery list for now - they belong on your panvocalic organisms list. 2 months ago PossibleUnderscore said Gathers reesetee's fufluns and replaces them with phony umbrage. 2 months ago hernesheir said I also use the plant database maintained at Kew. 2 months ago hernesheir said A better link. 2 months ago hernesheir said I'm scanning visually name by name from this website for now. Wish I had the wherewithal to have/create/use a database to query. That would make things much easier and faster. I'll soon get around to using IPNI and perhaps checklists of genera specific to families, as I locate them. 2 months ago hernesheir said Triceratorhynchus - ieaoyu Seems like a name better suited for a rhinoceros beetle rather than an orchid. 2 months ago reesetee said Wha...huh? What'd I do? flings fufluns hither and yon in a spasm of fake umbrage 2 months ago ruzuzu said and mollusque too (just for good measure) 2 months ago ruzuzu said and hernesheir 2 months ago ruzuzu said including blaming reesetee 2 months ago ruzuzu said Too bad bwahahahahahahaha is monovocalic! twirls moustache, flourishes cape, then slinks away to come up with more dastardly hijinks 2 months ago hernesheir said I have to reveal that some silly contrived phrases added to the euryvocalic pattern schema over at the Panvocalic Pants list. I blame ruzuzu. 2 months ago hernesheir said Sclerocyathium - eoyaiu 2 months ago hernesheir said Polycephalium and Polypsecadium - oyeaiu 2 months ago hernesheir said It has been pleasing to find a scant few previously unrecorded euryvocalic patterns among the mineral and plant names. Thanks for reminding me about IPNI. Thanks also for catching the incorrect tags on Hedraiostylus. I'll keep to the plants. Glad you're tackling the animals again. Irania, though not a panvocalic, is at once the genus name for a plant, a bird, and perhaps a fossil scleractinian coral. Happy word hunting! 2 months ago hernesheir said Lysiosepalum yioeau 2 months ago hernesheir said Hedraiostylus eaioyu 2 months ago hernesheir said I think I found another pattern example: iyoeua. 2 months ago hernesheir said Have to revise my hierarchy. I found Aiouea, a consonant-less genus of the laurel family. No consonants thus would be at the same level of hierarchy as avocalics, subsumed under a global "words". What could be the name of a word that has no consonants? Linguists already us aconsonantal for expressions like Aiee! that lack consonants. 2 months ago hernesheir said I decided I must capitalize the genus name of the plants I'm listing. Too long the botanist to throw all conventions to the four winds, like so many anemochores. 2 months ago hernesheir said I like the fact that supervocalic, like euvocalic and euryvocalic, contains all the vowels but once. I think subsuming eu- and eury- as categories under super- is a good clarification if this helps clarify a hierarchy of these related word categories. It would be nice to sit down and sketch a hierarchical classification/outline/flowchart with you, perhaps on a pub napkin. Here's my idea of a hierarchy - just try to follow the numbers: 1) All words = words; 2a) words without vowels = avocalics (e.g. crwth, 2b) words with vowels = vocalics; 2b1) words with all the vowels, including extra vowels and or wyes = panvocalics, 2b2) words with the vowels only once, +/- ?one wye = supervocalics; 2b2a) all vowels once, no wye = euvocalics, 2b2b) all vowels once, one wye = euryvocalics. Euvocalics broken into alpha-, or retrovocalics. Euryvocalics also divided into alphaeuryvocalics and retroeuryvocalics??? The avocalic words also come in two flavors (at least for crossword dictionary purposes), those without a wye (cwm), and those with a wye (glyph). Argument over whether wye or "w" are or aren't vowels to follow... These latter avocalic categories are not named, so far as I know. Coinages to follow? Let me know what you think! 3 months ago hernesheir said moll, I haven't quite decided what to do with synonyms of an approved/accepted/official mineral name. I'm not trying to enforce the rules of nomenclature; guess I started out listing only what I could determine to be "official names". One way of dealing with them might be to list synonyms with comments identifying them as such? I tend to favor this approach since virtually all of them have seen their way into print, sometimes many times over. Go ahead and list (on my lists too) the names of synonyms you find, especially the eu(ry)vocalic gems you encounter. Thanks! 3 months ago hernesheir said I have considered pharmaceuticals as a source of panvocalic words. The names can be extremely, if not ridiculously lengthy constructions; finding panvocalics would seem to be "too easy". They are clumsy to me, as artificial as the most of the compounds themselves. Moreover they are rife with Greek letters, numbers and hyphens that make them unappealing to me. However, in exploring them you may likely run across vowel combinations that fill holes in your paradigm of "possibles". 3 months ago hernesheir said Eliminations of misspellings and suggested corrections to the panvocalic & euvocalic mineral lists are done, (I think). Thanks for checking for accuracy and for helping me see words as interesting strings of characters (c-v-c combinations aren't unnoticed). Glad to have found and contributed tellurantimony to your quest to populate #240 of the possible euvocalics combinations paradigm. sulfohalite is a synonym of the official name sulphohalite. Since it was published (1933, 1931) before the advent of the Int'l Mineral Assn. (1959) and in print in later scientific mineralogical journals (1968), I'll consider it a valid word, and acknowledged synonym of sulphohalite for our purposes. 3 months ago hernesheir said You're the man. 3 months ago mollusque said Yes, ultrarevolutionaries and automobile insurance. They live on Panvocalic Miscellany. 3 months ago hernesheir said Hey mollusque, have you run across any doubly euvocalic words? The mineral aluminoceladonite is just one "u" short. 7 months ago oroboros said Thanks, mollusque, for severer. 7 months ago mollusque said Apparently it was. Thanks Pro! 7 months ago Prolagus said mollusque, is your favorite word a misspelling? 7 months ago john said Kosher html is working again on comments, thanks for the nudge. 7 months ago bilby said Was happening to me and frogapplause earlier ... post on someone's profile, pops up on your own. 7 months ago john said Jaysus--fugly bug. Your edit confused me until I saw my response show up over here. That should be fixed now. 7 months ago mollusque said Regarding the ongoing work on links intended to stop spammers: just when I'd trained my donkey not to eat he died on me. Edit: That was posted on the feedback profile. 7 months ago hernesheir said FYI "Shrimp-backed potato head tied-died egg noodle" - phrase containing a mollusk that a junior-high friend in Leavenworth, Kansas (1972) used to describe people (like me, from Idaho). 7 months ago thtownse said Thanks for being a B Kliban fan. 7 months ago hernesheir said calamarata - a short-cut extruded pasta - lovely monovocalic for your list. 8 months ago hernesheir said Another panvocalic word-phrase - greasy with some extra vowels, from a can of pentetrating lubricant. 8 months ago john said Hi mollusque, there had been a 2,000 character limit on list descriptions. I just upped it to 20,000, let me know if that doesn't do the trick. 8 months ago PossibleUnderscore said I know, right? 8 months ago bilby said Dic envy. 8 months ago ruzuzu said I hear GrantBarrett has at least 40 dictionaries. 8 months ago ruzuzu said It would be really fun if you made a list of some of your dictionaries. (Hint, hint.) 8 months ago mollusque said I have about 70 dictionaries, mostly English, but also Latin, French, German, Yiddish, Hebrew, Tagalog, and Hawaiian. My entomological shelf is maintained by Google Books. 8 months ago PossibleUnderscore said Another question...how many dictionaries do you have, and in how many languages? What fills up this entomological literature shelf of yours? 8 months ago chained_bear said ... isn't it? ;) 8 months ago yarb said It's the way he mentions "the entomological literature"... as if it were a section in all of our bookshelves... 8 months ago PossibleUnderscore said So thorough mollusque! I take my hat off to you. 8 months ago mollusque said Hi PossibleUnderscore, as stated in the list description, all of the listed panvocalics have been used at least once in print, by an author who was not seeking to create a vowel or letter pattern. Under Panvocalic euryvocalic, you'll see that I rejected subendolymphatic because it was coined for the pattern rather than the meaning. So, yes, I consider all of the items listed to be legitimate words. For obscure words (rare and non-obvious meanings) I generally tag them with a dictionary in which they appear, or provide a quotation. "Counterpain" gets more than 600 hits in Google Books. Some of them are misspellings of counterpane, but many are used in the sense of analgesic. Cotigulate I tagged with OED2, since it's listed there (meaning "to tile a house"). Schizoneuran is used in the entomological literature. 8 months ago PossibleUnderscore said Hey mollusque- just a question... You know I'm a great fan of that Panvocalics list, but you have to admit that some of the words there are pretty ludicrous, like counterpain or cotigulate or schizoneuran just to name a few. Are they all, really, legitimate words? or leaning towards the madeupical side? 9 months ago ruzuzu said Have you seen these curiosities of biological nomenclature? 9 months ago frogapplause said Mollusque, U Rock! U Paper! U Scissors! (Triggered by comment from marky on animals 1 syllable list.) 10 months ago frogapplause said mollusque: Thanks for another gag idea. 10 months ago uselessness said I replied on my profile. Or was I supposed to reply here? I don't remember how these things work! 10 months ago tiara said 10 months 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. 10 months ago Prolagus said Your comment on chained_bear's newly acquired paraphyly generated two big laughs in this abode. 10 months ago ruzuzu said Thank you for adding some verses to my list. I greatly enjoy reading your lists and your comments. 11 months ago mollusque said Thanks, gangerh! It seems to happen about once a year. See mollusque baugh. 11 months ago gangerh said I played with your name. about 1 year ago reesetee said Ah. Okay. Neither did I, actually. about 1 year ago chained_bear said Yes, I mean I didn't recognize it at first as one of my own. about 1 year ago reesetee said C_b, that's your 20,000th word. Some kind of prehistoric Italian, I think. ;-) about 1 year 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 1 year ago reesetee said Haha! I didn't know you were tagging them--great idea! about 1 year ago mollusque said Thanks, reesetee and c_b. FYI, leagues joins swim and devincenzia on the 20K list. about 1 year 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 1 year ago reesetee said Another member of the 20,000+ Club! Congrats! about 1 year ago bilby said 20 big ones, moll! A lot of panvocalic work has gone into that :-) Well done. about 1 year 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.) over 1 year ago fbharjo said thanks for the suggestions on liminal words list over 1 year ago frogapplause said a little gift for you over 1 year ago bilby said autotomaton is great :-) over 1 year ago mollusque said Hi bilby! The phenomenon is called autotomy, but I'm not aware of a blanket name for animals capable of it. I thought it might be autotomizer, but that turns out to be the name of the muscle that contracts to cause the self-amputation. How about autotomaton? over 1 year ago bilby said Moll, is there a name for the type of creature that jettisons a part of its body when threatened, usually to serve as a decoy? I startled a gecko some months ago and its tail wiggled on the floor for a time after the reptile decamped. Poor Stumpy :-( over 1 year 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. almost 2 years 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 ;-) almost 2 years ago Prolagus said Mollusque, What do "w-d-720" and similar tags mean? almost 2 years ago mollusque said Have a lurk see? almost 2 years ago Prolagus said See lurk. almost 2 years ago reesetee said I believe Wordie is almost 3 years old now--right, John? almost 2 years 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! almost 2 years ago bilby said The comment that from memory was my first shows as 'about 1 year ago'. My guess is that it was in about February 2007. Now that lists are named rather than numbered it's harder to pinpoint the chronology. But I know I didn't make a list other than the default one until October 2007. almost 2 years ago bilby said How old are we? 2? almost 2 years ago chained_bear said congrats in advance, mollusque. :) almost 2 years ago Prolagus said I have a gift for you on facebook, my friend. almost 2 years ago Prolagus said mollusque! I can't believe your facebook link is broken! See faq. almost 2 years ago wordwench said I can only dream of having added so many wonderful words. gazes sycophantically, but you don't notice almost 2 years ago treeseed said Thank you for the warm welcome back, mollusque. about 2 years 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 2 years ago reesetee said Wowee! Congrats, m! not feeling so lonely anymore Bilby: Are you implying that I have emtnal dagmae? Bite yuor tonque! about 2 years ago bilby said Such precision in the achievement! I would not have accepted anything less. puts a gold star on mollusque's work about 2 years 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 2 years ago she said Happy 10,000th! (Sheesh, you're old.) about 2 years ago sionnach said Yea, mollusque! way to go. What was your 10,000th word? Oh, bilby, you are so dorll! about 2 years 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 2 years ago skipvia said She--you might enjoy the discussion on verbing. Or try nouning... about 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago oroboros said Mollusque: you might be interested to look at taxonomy of wordplay. over 2 years ago oroboros said Hi mollusque. Under your 'eeeee' tag cheerlessness has only four 'e's. How about cheerlessnesses? over 2 years ago Prolagus said I have a question for you... over 2 years ago Prolagus said mollusque, I'm really appreciating your help on my list. Great words! over 2 years ago stephanieconn said argh, thanks for catching my typo on 'multivalency'. I re-posted. over 2 years ago jtfmulder said Pro Z: The translation workplace Thank you very much in Hebrew is: תודה רבה Todah rabah over 2 years ago iamerica said todah rabah! over 2 years ago iamerica said thanks for the hebrew... what does that mean? -erica over 2 years ago sionnach said Mollusque: congratulations on reaching 1111 comments - a milestone worth celebrating. I can say with certainty that you are the only wordie for whom over 25% of contributed words are panvocalics. Keep 'em coming! over 2 years ago mollusque said I don't know of a single word (mononym) for such words (e.g., billowy). They're called "alphabetical words" by Dmitri Borgmann (Language on Vacation, 1965). Maybe they should be called "alphaliterals", since "alpha" can mean "alphabetic", as in putting a list into "alpha order". over 2 years ago gangerh said Just a thought - do you know of a word that describes a word that has all its letters in alphabetical order? over 2 years ago gangerh said Gosh, never come across that before. 'pologies for questioning your listing of it - I searched the plural and was offered it as first lister. over 2 years ago mollusque said Sorry, gangerh. Panvocalics are words that contain all the vowels. The definition is under panvocalic (I fixed my comment on Treeseed's profile to link there). My list is here. over 2 years ago gangerh said What are panvocalics please and how come you haven't listed it? over 2 years ago treeseed said I love Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle. over 2 years ago treeseed said No, I have no pre-existing lists. These words are just in my head and I am free-associating. over 2 years ago treeseed said Thank you for the encouragement, Mollusque. I have been enjoying myself a lot. I'm a bit of a shut-in at the moment and this has been a boon. over 2 years ago reesetee said Congrats! You're cruisin', all right. :-) over 2 years ago mollusque said Thanks, yarb! It was misconjugatedly. over 2 years ago yarb said Congratulations on your 5000th word! over 2 years ago mollusque said As far as I knew, I was just French for "mollusk". Or I should say, "mollusk" is English for "mollusque"; the French word is older. over 2 years ago bilby said Do you realise you are a distant cousin of goose fat? almost 3 years ago oroboros said My goodness! Mollusk power! Enjoyin' your Wordie contributions... almost 3 years ago sonofgroucho said Nice to meet you, mollusque. I've got a feeling we'll bump into each other quite a lot.