fbharjo has looked up 27909 words, created 409 lists, listed 33499 words, written 4560 comments, added 92 tags, and loved 115 words.
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I am a new user and it took me a while to find this box where I can reply to your comment.
I do upload a lot of words but the quoted number is a mistake. I did upload a huge file with over 25000 terms but as it didn't work out well (the file uploaded but remained uneditable and undeleteable) I had to ask Erin to delete it for me. The deletion did not reflect in the count, though. I have the impression that Wordnik is a great idea but there are too many bugs and inconveniences here still. The coding team is either too small or not competent enough. E.g. Why can't I reply to your comments directly? Why did I have to search for hours for this very commetn box?
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First palindromic phrase I've seen using google. :o)
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You seem to have mentioned New Mexico several times recently. Do you live there?
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Thanks for adding mackerel-breeze. I liked it so much that I started a mackerel list.
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Thank you for your help--specifically with the specifically list, but also in general.
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Thank you for your liminal words list, which I found when I looked up extranoematic for my newest poem. I promptly made off with strand, peridrome and snowbroth for the same poem.
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Thanks for listing heterodyne in with my waves--Wordplayer was looking for it over on the lost for word list, and when I went to add it to my waves list, it was already there. Cool.
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Thanks for adding to my "Zillions of Illions list!
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Oops, I thought I did. Probably forgot to hit the "go" button.
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Many thanks for your contributions to the Palynology list.
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Yesterday a friend of mine invited me to attend a lecture at the public library about changes in U.S. law after the Standing Bear trial. My friend lives in Moscow now, but she's visiting for Thanksgiving, etc. At one point the lecturer mentioned Guwisguwi (by his other name). I had one of those moments where I tried to figure out how to explain to my friend how libraries and Russia and Guwisguwi related to this site, but then I decided I'd just wait to write it out here.
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Thanks so much for your additions to my list of "greens"!
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*waves hello* Thanks for the info--I remember picking up a brochure when I was down there. It looks delightful.
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I'm a bit ashamed to admit that I know exactly which one it was. You commented on it, actually--it's on my wave list.
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Very nice--I'm honored I could be part of it.
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The word was messuage on your list 'There ought to be a law'. To fracture a famous saying by Marshall McLuhan a bit ' The medium is in the messuage." - messuage is a legal term for a dwelling and its adjacent property and buildings
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Congratulations! Do you remember which word was number 20,000?
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Revolving... that's cool. I remember that most of the rocks on Sandia Peak had seashells in them.
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Yes. Crow knows.
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I came to kairos by way of Madeleine "not Proust's involuntary memory" L'Engle. I think of it when I read (reed) about situation awareness, and I thought of it when I read (red) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
At this moment (since yesterday), a trigger for me is the word sneaked (or snuck). The first story is about sneaking out of my great aunt's house in the suburbs of Detroit early one morning for a sentimental journey downtown, the second story is about sneaking out of my best friend's aunt's house in Rio Rancho for a mapless predawn hike along a creek to catch the sunrise from warm springs near Jemez.
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I came to your profile to find a list appropriate for the word intertex, but I got distracted by "pka Cheparnee" (and Coofor, and Tiguex, and Kuaua).
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You have a soul mate.
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"fbharjo has added 219 lists containing 18,852 words, 2,378 comments, 87 tags, 134 favorites, and 0 pronunciations."
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Mad for hopping, eh? Glad you're having fun. :-)
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Whey cool list!
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Well, golly. It would seem that there's a list in the works with all of these Galena-inspired words.
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I keep trying to think of steak-raising cowboy puns, but nothing is coming to me....
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You keep raising the stakes!
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I love that you set up camp over on my list. Thank you!
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What delightful "bell" words! I've added the adjectives to my list of adjectival arcana.
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Hi, 'jo. I haven't forgotten the 'closed STFairies' like 'run dry run'. They do feature on the new Sweet Tooth Fairy website I'm now building. I'm calling them 'Dead End ST Fairies'.
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Thanks! I was inspired by chained_bear and hernesheir.
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I often claim that I'm like a crow - it's hard for me to walk anywhere without stopping to investigate shiny objects on the sidewalk (I used to come home with rocks and coins and bits of broken glass in my pockets).
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I hadn't remembered until I looked her up again. What an interesting family tree you have. It's funny - WWII and the rise of the Iron Curtain actually obscured half of mine (my mother's mother and aunts were as silent about certain things as the giant oak with the sister trunks (sisterly mythstories)).
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Sorry - I didn't actually mean to delete my comment about peregrine falcons and mosaic thunderbirds and aunties and oak trees....
I'll replace it with this: I've been to the small town in central Missouri where Winston Churchill gave his "Iron Curtain" speech. It is now the site of a church which was designed by Christopher Wren, gutted during the Blitz, and rebuilt at Westminster College as a memorial. It also has a large section of the Berlin Wall which is part of a memorial designed by Churchill's granddaughter. -
Hm. That means the writer Joy Harjo has a name which is delightfully redundant.
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Thanks! By the way, I keep meaning to ask you about Guwisguwi - is it possible that you were born in Turkeytown, Alabama, in 1790?
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You amuse me.
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Thanks for the note fbharjo. I didn't sea waterer on the list at first. Yes, I'll keep trying as -erer is one of favorite tack-ons.
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I enjoy many areas of your wordplay. Please see my profile and see if some of those areas interest you.
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I've been to Four Corners! I put one of my limbs in each of the four states at the same time and then reassembled myself, ta-daa!
Thank you for the link. I have a weakness for agate, actually for any striated or patterned stone. But I did not see any specific mention of hinges. -
Your comment from before "don't forget short closure sweet tooth fairies such as run dry run. there is a separate list of them"
I haven't forgotten 'jo. My apologies, just overlooked them at the time. I will shortly add a page to w.t-i-s-t-f.c linking to your list.
Thought I might call them 'clenched teeth fairies'.
Hah!
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Thanks for your interest in my World of Corn list!
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Kudos for your anonymous celebrity in being the source material for the Boston Globe's "The Word" today.
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Thanks for adding to my "See Rock City" List. I've made it through some western states (lots of rocks there) avoiding the biggies AL and CA. Wish some Wordnikies from there would add some to!
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Just stopping by to gush about how awesome you are. I love your wax work over on my list, but your own lists are fantastic. (Especially the one with the gimmals.) Thank you!
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thx for adding to my robot list! I moved your listing of Karel Čapek to the top info since he's not a robot.
Also, you've listed nanobot which is a general umbrella term encompassing an entire field of robotics. Unless I'm mistaken and it is actually officially a specific robot that I'm not aware of? -
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Congratulations on reaching 10,000 words, fbharjo!
fbharjo commented on the word point of sale
point of sail?
May 25, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word barber's cat
a sickly looking person
May 25, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word nothing
not-hing(e) and/or no-thing and/or noth-ing?
May 24, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word point and shoot
see point and clique
May 24, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word clique and point
group transference
May 24, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word drachmageddon
I real-ly fear drachlira!!! What's the (pace-oh) peso??? What becomes of a (the) dole are?
May 24, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word point of disorder
point of this order?
May 24, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word beside the point
point out, point blanks?
May 24, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word beside the point
parallel point?
May 24, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word oh-be-joyful
intoxicating spirits
May 23, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word nigh unto
almost or nearly
May 23, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word hair case
hat
May 23, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word slantindicular
oblique
May 23, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word sawdusting
flattering
May 23, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word sakes alive
good heavens
May 23, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word puddin' foot
a clutzy horse
May 23, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word loaded for bears
lightly intoxicated
May 23, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word high tail
vamoose
May 23, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word hen skins
cowboy's bedroll
May 23, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word belly wash
dishwater coffee
May 23, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word keep company
to court
May 23, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word out of gas
beyond ether (ethyl?)
May 23, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word gatorade
and blend mite(mighty)-gator-aide?! (mitigater-aide)?
May 22, 2012
fbharjo commented on the user gulyasrobi
It is definitely wordnikteriously mysterious! (and full of awe-wonder!)?
May 22, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word startup
What a downer (down turn)?
May 22, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Napier
It is hard to get away 'clean handed'?!
May 21, 2012
fbharjo commented on the user gulyasrobi
Great lists!
How did you list so many words (46907) so quickly ?... and where are these words since most of them are not on your lists?
May 21, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Porvoo
The finishing touch of Finnish!
May 15, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Yamoussoukro
the best coasting ivory? coasting
May 15, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Mmabatho
Hmmmm does it come out in the wash?
May 15, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Dinxperlo
a fine ice wine!!
May 15, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Bergamo
Are you game?(gamo)??
May 15, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Cusco
Cuzco
May 15, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Cusco
Capital of Inca?
May 15, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Pocatello
synonomous with Marx (poke -and tell-oh)
May 15, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Bilbo
Does it remind you of someone?
May 15, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Tupelo
How can you top that?
May 15, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word macrotis
and what do you bandy-about?
bil of bil-becomes?
May 15, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Accho
Bless you!
May 15, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Ogbomosho
known for its kola nuts!
May 15, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Khajuraho
the brothers are monumental
May 15, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Jericho
It is the lowest of the low - yet high brow.
May 15, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Capital of Idaho
Boise
May 15, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word flopuing
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A plover-like bird with four toes, a crest, and lustrous plumage, belonging to the genus Vanellus and family Charadriidæ. The best-known lapwing is V. cristatus, a common European bird, also called pe-wit, from its cry. The adult male has the upper parts iridescent with green, violet, and purplish tints, the under parts white, a large area on the breast and the top of the head and the long crest black, the tail-coverts chestnut or orange-brown, the tail black and white, the bill black, and the feet red. It is about as large as a pigeon. The eggs are esteemed a great luxury, and many are annually sent to the London markets from the marshy districts of England, under the name of plovers' eggs. There are other species. Also called flopuing.
GNU Webster's 1913
n. A small European bird of the Plover family (Vanellus cristatus, or Vanellus vanellus). It has long and broad wings, and is noted for its rapid, irregular fight, upwards, downwards, and in circles. Its back is coppery or greenish bronze. Its eggs are the “plover's eggs” of the London market, esteemed a delicacy. It is called also peewit, dastard plover, and wype. The gray lapwing is the Squatarola cinerea.
May 15, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word crease
To make a line or long thin
mark in,
as by folding,
doubling,
or indenting.
May 15, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word snowcap
a New Granada hummer in its animate form.
May 15, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word cadilesker
kadilesker
May 14, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word kumiss
I am not shaken or remiss (ruemiss)?!
May 14, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word wolfhound
originally wolfhounds now locolobos????
May 14, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Zouave
adds a whole new meaning to drilling (for what?)
May 14, 2012