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dontcry commented on the word temptacious
A very large area that beckons you.
September 20, 2008
mollusque commented on the word temptacious
Variant of temptatious.
September 20, 2008
rolig commented on the word temptacious
Says who?
September 20, 2008
dontcry commented on the word temptacious
Um.....me?
September 20, 2008
rolig commented on the word temptacious
OK, dontcry, if you say so. But at the risk of sounding prescriptivistic, this seems to me more like a misspelling (or a "creative spelling" as one of my teachers used to say) than a variant of "temptatious."
September 20, 2008
dontcry commented on the word temptacious
I don't know what it is. I just random worded it and came up with a logical definition. It also could be, among other things, a bodacious song by the Temptations.
September 20, 2008
dontcry commented on the word temptacious
It also could be part of the unconscious mind that is susceptible to temptation. See?
September 20, 2008
pterodactyl commented on the word temptacious
Also an anagram of "moist teacup".
September 20, 2008
mollusque commented on the word temptacious
Rolig, I called it a variant rather than a misspelling because it gets more than 10% of the g-hits relative to temptatious. But on Google Books, there's only one bona fide usage (after excluding OCR errors), which means editors don't let it stand, so I agree that it's a misspelling. I added it to my panvocalic list after dontcry commented on it, but have dropped it now.
September 20, 2008
rolig commented on the word temptacious
I just realized what your reasoning was, dc: temptation + capacious. Got it.
Mollusque, as you know, there are a lot of crazy spellings out in Googleland, especially on web pages written by people who do not have a firm grasp of English (I mean that English is a second or third language for them). I respect your checking the word on Google Books. I will have to remember that.
September 20, 2008
dontcry commented on the word temptacious
Rolig, you give me too much credit. My math went like this: tempting + spacious = temptacious!
September 20, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word temptacious
Sigh... the english is a secnod laguage to me but it doen't meen that i cant write corectly.
(just kidding, rolig)
September 20, 2008