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mollusque commented on the word retroliteral
(adj.) having the letters in reverse alphabetical order;
(n.) a word or phrase having the letters in reverse alphabetical order.
Compare alphaliteral.
December 9, 2008
bilby commented on the word retroliteral
Is this a mollusque madeupical?
December 9, 2008
mollusque commented on the word retroliteral
Yup. A Google search for "+retroliteral" returns only Wordie (as yet).
December 9, 2008
sionnach commented on the word retroliteral
If retroliteral enters the language and ensnorkelled doesn't, I shall be vexed indeed.
December 9, 2008
mollusque commented on the word retroliteral
Ensnorkelled is already part of the language; it's the title of a poem.
December 9, 2008
gangerh commented on the word retroliteral
Didn't retroliteral just return Wordie on a Google search last time round?
December 9, 2008
rolig commented on the word retroliteral
I found this hyphenated version via Google on a bilingual (Hebrew-English) music site here:
"Jimmie Carter and his family just did that leave the Southern Baptist Church a year or two ago because the Southern Baptists are trying to enforce a retro-literal female inferiority in their congregations."
Here the word seems to refer to an antiquated literal interpretation of the Bible.
December 9, 2008
bilby commented on the word retroliteral
I could probably be persuaded to join the Retroliteral Campaign Team in return for a free t-shirt. Or a mollusque listing of schadenfreudgeon :-)
December 9, 2008
sionnach commented on the word retroliteral
retromingent marsupials shouldn't stow thrones
December 9, 2008
bilby commented on the word retroliteral
Hush now, oh ye of the funksome, fetid, festering chook-breath. Lant envy will get you nowhere. I have enough desert here to take a slash any-hoppity-ways I want: backwards, sideways, frontways, bandipoopways, though my favourite is Galways ... ah, those luxuriously moist lands. So verdant.
December 9, 2008