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ruzuzu commented on the word readd
Here’s one: correctly-spelled-words-that-look-like-misspellings-of-other-words
November 16, 2018
ruzuzu commented on the word gantry
“Very early on a weekday, before the sun rose over the town of Aalsmeer, I stepped into Royal FloraHolland, the largest flower auction in the world.
FloraHolland (royal designates a firm that has been in business for more than 100 years) is a single building so large that the numbers describing it make no sense: It covers 1.3 million square meters, 320 acres, the area of 220 football fields. It is one unfathomably large room, but a gantry stretches across it at the level of a second story, for visitors to walk along without getting in the way of business. Suspended in the middle of the gantry is the auction itself, rooms of traders in bleacher seating, wearing headsets and stabbing keyboards, staring at wall-sized screens of flower lots while electronic clocks tick down.“
—“Killer Tulips Hiding in Plain Sight” The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/when-tulips-kill/574489/
November 16, 2018
ry commented on the word engarland
also this one
November 15, 2018
ry commented on the word readd
where is that list of words that look like misspellings but aren't?
November 15, 2018
MaryW commented on the word citizen science
New Report Says ‘Citizen Science’ Can Support Both Science Learning and Research Goals; Inequities in Education, Opportunities, and Resources Must be Addressed to Meet Participants’ Learning Demands, National Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine press release (Nov. 1, 2018)November 15, 2018
qms commented on the word berimbau
Yep. I’m wired.
November 15, 2018
bilby commented on the word berimbau
My gourd is resonating. You?
November 15, 2018
bilby commented on the word innocuous
*boom*
November 15, 2018
qms commented on the word berimbau
The dancer with all limbs akimbo
Contorts in a lithesome low limbo.
In firelight flesh glistens
And all the world listens
To the beat of the haunting berimbau.
November 15, 2018
ranjanj4 commented on the word innocuous
If you think breathing is innocuous then come to Delhi.
November 15, 2018
ranjanj4 commented on the word overstate
Naive people often overstate too much on their resume, which often seems pompous or grandiloquent.
November 15, 2018
ranjanj4 commented on the word overstate
Well, i think you can overstate time a bit and finish your work before you go home.
November 15, 2018
ranjanj4 commented on the word contrive
I asked my manager for leaves but refused , so contrive some way to get the leaves and it worked out . so finally i was able to trick them.
November 15, 2018
ranjanj4 commented on the word perfunctory
Preparing for Gre is not a perfunctory Idea.
November 15, 2018
ranjanj4 commented on the word insipid
Insipid is best suitable for my work. i am insipid toward my work.
November 15, 2018
bilby commented on the word fagot
See this, from the examples on fascio:
The Italian name of the movement, fascismo, is derived from fascio, bundle, political group, but also refers to the movement's emblem, the fasces, a bundle of rods bound around a projecting axe-head that was carried before an ancient Roman magistrate by an attendant as a symbol of authority and power.
November 15, 2018
bilby commented on the word fagot
If that etymology holds up - Middle English, from Old French, from Old Provençal, possibly from Vulgar Latin *facus, from Greek phakelos, bundle - then that's the same root as fascist.
November 15, 2018
alexz commented on the word edtech
education technology blend
November 15, 2018
bilby commented on the user abanggojek
cara bikin pusing aje
November 14, 2018
biocon commented on the word intinct
intinct = to moisten, dye, suffuse.
November 14, 2018
MaryW commented on the word E-Carceration
Michelle Alexander, The Newest Jim Crow, N.Y. Times (Nov. 8, 2018)What Is E-Carceration?, Challenging E-Carceration: The Voice of the Monitored (2017)November 14, 2018
MaryW commented on the word e-carceration
Michelle Alexander, The Newest Jim Crow, N.Y. Times (Nov. 8, 2018)What Is E-Carceration?, Challenging E-Carceration: The Voice of the Monitored (2017)November 14, 2018
biocon commented on the word difficilitate
See difficultate
November 14, 2018
biocon commented on the word difficultate
See difficilitate
November 14, 2018
biocon commented on the list to-make-difficult
Google informs that difficultate is used on 222,000 websites and that difficilitate is utilized on 5720 websites.
November 14, 2018
abanggojek commented on the user abanggojek
cara daftar gojek,cara daftar grab, topup ovo,topup gopay
November 14, 2018
qms commented on the word garth
In seasons when sunlight is sparse
The Princess stays in by the hearth.
When Winter is gone
And sun soaks the lawn
Her court will disport on the garth.
November 14, 2018
MaryW commented on the word wildland-urban interface
The science behind California’s surging wildfires, PBS NewsHour, Niv. 13, 2018November 14, 2018
MaryW commented on the word wildland urban interface
The science behind California’s surging wildfires, PBS NewsHour, Niv. 13, 2018November 14, 2018
bilby commented on the word freakshake
Hoola for dat moola, baby.
November 13, 2018
ruzuzu commented on the list swim-bladder
My new favorite list.
November 13, 2018
ruzuzu commented on the word lingcod
Lovely, qms! If I had at least three more sets of tentacle-y appendages, I'd be clapping them all together right now!
November 13, 2018
alarryaaron commented on the list triple-homonyms
their
there
they’re
November 13, 2018
qms commented on the word freakshake
Brilliant, bilby! Can you copyright a dance move? Shall we race to the patent office? Gimme, gimme, gimme some money for that shimmy.
November 13, 2018
qms commented on the word alestake
I guessed it was old Abenaki
Or maybe a rare type of sake,
But alestake is pure
Plain English for sure
And none of that furrin malarkey.
November 13, 2018
bilby commented on the word freakshake
I'd swear this was vendingmachine's latest devastating dance move.
November 13, 2018
qms commented on the word alestake
When travelers and steeds need a break
There’s thirst of the horses to slake,
But coachmen will push
To the welcoming bush
And go till they find an alestake.
November 13, 2018
alexz commented on the word freakshake
spotted in the BBC
'Call for UK ban on 'grotesquely sugary' freakshakes' Nov 12, 2018
"Freakshakes are milkshakes that also contain chocolates, sweets, cake, cream and sauce."
November 13, 2018
bilby commented on the word flyaway
...of this kind.
November 13, 2018
biocon commented on the word pelagus altum
pelagus altum = deep sea or high sea.
November 13, 2018
bilby commented on the word ptest
In biology, an examination used to determine if a flying dinosaur is a pterodactyl.
November 12, 2018
Ezeliasa commented on the word demon
A very dark energy
November 12, 2018
Ezeliasa commented on the word satan
Translation: It means adversary
November 12, 2018
Ezeliasa commented on the word God
"Before there was I Am"
-God
November 12, 2018
biocon commented on the word stenothermy
stenothermy = the quality or state of being stenothermal.
November 12, 2018
biocon commented on the word eurythermy
eurythermy = the quality or state of being eurythermal.
November 12, 2018
Theodore commented on the word gronkytonk
Gronkytonk is a neologism for a future genre of music, coined by author Malka Older in her 2016 novel Infomocracy.
https://www.tor.com/2017/10/18/fictional-future-musical-genre-gronkytonk-of-malka-olders-infomocracy-created-by-marc-weidenbaum-and-disquiet/
November 12, 2018
qms commented on the word lingcod
On the Great Puget Sound Octopus Survey
Beware what the scholars purvey!
Octopuses are coy in their way.
They’re dodgers and dancers,
You can’t trust their answers.
Who knows how they’ll twist a survey?
November 12, 2018
ruzuzu commented on the word giant Pacific octopus
See citation on lingcod.
November 12, 2018
ruzuzu commented on the word lingcod
“Initially, the octopus survey was launched to try to answer a question that staff members got regularly at the Seattle Aquarium: How many giant Pacific octopuses live in the Puget Sound? It turns out it’s not an easy question to answer, since there isn’t a firm population number for giant Pacifics.
These octopuses normally live about three years. They eat a lot of crustaceans, mollusks, squid, fish and sometimes other species of octopus. They are so big that they only really have to watch out for extremely large fish, such as halibut and lingcod, and some marine mammals. But they hatch from an egg the size of a rice grain, so for more than a year after they’re born, they are at the mercy of a wide array of predators.”
— https://www.citylab.com/environment/2018/11/giant-pacific-octopus-survey-puget-sound-seattle-aquarium/574408/
November 12, 2018
qms commented on the word illation
Concerning our great tribulation
I offer a hopeful illation:
The problem derives
From imbibing lies
And abstinence ends pixilation.
November 12, 2018
biocon commented on the word hema
hema = blood. See haema and sanguis.
November 12, 2018
biocon commented on the word haema
haema = blood. See hema and sanguis.
November 12, 2018
Sahil@123 commented on the user Sahil@123
best api
November 11, 2018
biocon commented on the word spissid
See spiss.
November 11, 2018
biocon commented on the word pollina
pollina = plural of pollen.
November 11, 2018
qms commented on the word demyship
If I were more learned and polished
I’d know how to say “Magdalen College.”
Odd words likes demyship
Would trip light from my lip
And all would admire my knowledge.
An interesting note on local pronunciation:
http://www.weeklyhome.com/blog/mistakes-not-make-when-you-visit-oxford.html
November 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word ptest
Computing - a package test.
November 10, 2018
qms commented on the user sionnach
It’s strange prey the bandicoot stalks.
A sionnach, I learned, is a fox.
It’s not like he will be
A pal to a bilby.
He’ll eat him like bagels and lox.
November 10, 2018
qms commented on the word ponderate
Lexicographers eagerly explicate.
Though some are disposed to pontificate
A scholar who’s prudent
Is modesty’s student,
Inclined to first quietly ponderate.
November 10, 2018
itsshikha commented on the user itsshikha
nothing
November 10, 2018
shanvrolijk commented on the word loft
It’s an old, familiar idea: Truth is beauty. Beauty is truth. They go together, inextricable, like friendship and laughter, or road work and traffic. Gazing at the universe will always satisfy your aesthetic itch—and if not, then you probably suck at gazing. In her new book Lost in Math, physicist Sabine Hossenfelder lofts a very skeptical eyebrow at this orthodoxy.
https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018/11/07/when-the-math-is-pretty-but-the-truth-aint/
November 10, 2018
qms commented on the word metanoia
The bed ought to be like a cloister
But some noisome neighbor may roister.
An unwelcome shellfish
Is Yanno, the selfish,
Notoriously boisterous, oyster.
November 10, 2018
bilby commented on the word metanoia
Yanno a noisy annoyer neighbour's noise annoys an oyster.
November 10, 2018
qms commented on the word metanoia
My neighbor’s a noisy annoyer
And drove me to go find a lawyer.
Once keen on hip hop art
He now swears by Mozart
My lawyer has wrought metanoia.
November 9, 2018
scarequotes commented on the word blue wave
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/11/the-blue-wave-midterms-the-limits-of-metaphor/575257/
The mixed messaging, and the mixed metaphors, were appropriate: “Blue wave” began, in this election cycle, as a faith-based idea—Democratic activists’ hope that voters’ resentment of Trumpism would ripple and grow into a crashing, crushing eventuality—and that is in some ways what it remained, in the long year leading up to the 2018 U.S. midterms. It became a shorthand for the notion that a surge of blue would wash over the national political landscape: a widespread repudiation of the current political regime that would be, depending on your point of view, either made inevitable or made to collide vainly against the stubborn solidity of a Republican “red wall.”
November 8, 2018
qms commented on the user olcio45
Greetings.
November 8, 2018
olcio45 commented on the user olcio45
hello
November 8, 2018
TankHughes commented on the list three-toed-portmanteaus
Canola is "Canada oil, low acid" ?!
November 8, 2018
qms commented on the word emunctory
In typical practice of Trumpery
Civility’s scarce and perfunctory.
The organs of speech,
Disgraced in the breach,
Are put to a service emunctory.
November 8, 2018
Nayanti commented on the user Nayanti
good one
November 8, 2018
TankHughes commented on the word milkshake duck
I really like duckshake milk as as the reverse. It's a stupid fun concept.
November 8, 2018
bilby commented on the word milkshake duck
shmilkdake muck
November 8, 2018
bilby commented on the word battery
R: Batman, I can't get the Batmobile going!
B: Have you analysed it with the Batcomputer?
R: Yes I've analysed the Batmobile with the Batcomputer. But it's totally dead, won't even turn over.
B: Could be the battery...have you checked the battery?
R:...What's a tery?
November 8, 2018
MaryW commented on the word factoryless goods production
Fariha Kamal,A Portrait of U.S. Factoryless Goods Producers
, NBER Working Paper No. 25193 (Oct. 2018)November 7, 2018
MaryW commented on the word factoryless
Fariha Kamal, A Portrait of U.S. Factoryless Goods Producers, NBER Working Paper No. 25193 (Oct. 2018)November 7, 2018
scarequotes commented on the word rep sweats
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/06/22/482525049/on-the-podcast-rep-sweats-or-i-dont-know-if-i-like-this-but-i-need-it-to-win
For this week's episode, I sat down with my Code Switch teammate Gene Demby to dig into one of our favorite topics: rep sweats. It's the feeling of anxiety that can come with watching TV shows or movies starring people who look like you, especially when People Who Look Like You tend not to get a lot of screen time.
November 7, 2018
qms commented on the word baldaquin
There’s uncles and aunts and grandmothers
And spawn of your sisters and brothers,
A small baldaquin
For all balder kin
And tables in sunlight for others.
November 7, 2018
knudvaneeden commented on the user knudvaneeden
test
November 7, 2018
alexz commented on the word milkshake duck
duckmilk shake
November 7, 2018
bilby commented on the word milkshake duck
A duckshake milk?
November 6, 2018
bilby commented on the user ultralighticeaxe
You slay me qms.
November 6, 2018
ruzuzu commented on the word touch wood
Cf. touchwood.
November 6, 2018
ruzuzu commented on the word grumphie
When I was a kid, I used to listen to an album where Jean Ritchie sang "Children's Songs & Games from the Southern Mountains." One of the songs was about a bunch of farmyard animals--a horse that "goes neigh-neigh" and a sheep that "goes baa-baa" and a pig that "goes griffy-gruffy."
Maybe grumphie and griffy-gruffy aren't related, but I feel a little more at ease about why that pig wasn't just oinking.
November 6, 2018
qms commented on the word ostent
Is this how our twigs should be bent?
The goblin’s example has meant
The way to succeed
Is easy indeed,
With bluster and pompous ostent.
November 6, 2018
alexz commented on the word marschitect
Spotted as a Mars Architect
spotted in an ad.
November 6, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word milkshake duck
Thanks for the reverso story, sionnach.
November 6, 2018
qms commented on the user ultralighticeaxe
A penetrating observation, bilby.
November 5, 2018
bilby commented on the word grumphie
Scots: a pig.
November 5, 2018
bilby commented on the user ultralighticeaxe
Good username. Makes me think of Trotsky.
November 5, 2018
ruzuzu commented on the word counter-mapping
"Counter-mapping refers to efforts to map "against dominant power structures, to further seemingly progressive goals". The term was coined by Nancy Peluso in 1995 to describe the commissioning of maps by forest users in Kalimantan, Indonesia, as a means of contesting state maps of forest areas that typically undermined indigenous interests. The resultant counter-hegemonic maps had the ability to strengthen forest users' resource claims."
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Counter-mapping&oldid=863668724 (footnote references removed)
November 5, 2018
sionnach commented on the word milkshake duck
There is even the rarely spotted reverse milkshake duck, as discussed in the following story:
https://www.vox.com/2018/10/9/17955402/this-is-my-son-meme-himtoo-metoo-pieter-hanson
November 5, 2018
qms commented on the word BOFA
This is how the critics at Variety acclaim a successful all-women show. Compare boffo and brava. (The all-caps is a regrettable bit of condescension.)
November 5, 2018
qms commented on the word parrel
There once was a parrot named Darryl
Who perched by the store’s pickle barrel.
In his salty past
He’d sailed ‘fore the mast
So chattered of halyard and parrel.
November 5, 2018
bilby commented on the word BOFA
Bureau Of Fuflun Accreditation
November 5, 2018
alexz commented on the word BOFA
"both of"
November 5, 2018
bilby commented on the word rostate
Alright rösti you pedants.
November 5, 2018
bilby commented on the word rostate
Adjective used to describe a luncheon involving the abundant consumption of rosti.
November 5, 2018
alexz commented on the word w key
Refers to computer game players which hold down the W key, moving forward.
November 5, 2018
cryptofascistbbq commented on the word marronage
To be marooned, absorbed into the wilderness.
November 4, 2018