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• quaxanta commented on the word periphrasis

  the Greek cousin of circumlocution

  December 13, 2006

• quaxanta commented on the word inébranlable

  This word is French -- it means immovable or unshakeable.

  December 10, 2006

• quaxanta commented on the word agendum

  The singular of agenda -- and better because it means that there's less that you have to do!

  December 9, 2006

• quaxanta commented on the user john

  What about adding words in other languages? Although I suppose there's nothing stopping me from listing words from whatever language(s) I fancy, I'm curious to know what you and others think about this. It could create a problem for trying to look up the word for example in the English Wikipedia though.

  December 8, 2006

• quaxanta commented on the word scintillate

  Scintillate, scintillate, globule lucific.

  Fain would I fathom thy nature specific.

  (a more, ahem, wordy version of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star)

  December 7, 2006

• quaxanta commented on the user john

  This site is brilliant! One feature I'd like to see though is an optional spellchecker before I add my words to my list -- it's a nuisance to have to open up another browser window just because I can't quite remember how many p's are in hippopotomonstrosesquippedalian or something.

  December 2, 2006

• quaxanta commented on the word peccavi

  There's a story that in 1843, after annexing the Indian province of Sind, British General Sir Charles Napier sent home a telegram with the one word, "Peccavi" implying "I have Sind."

  Then later, when another general annexed another Indian province, some wit wrote:

  "Peccavi" - I've Sind - wrote Napier so proud;

  More briefly Dalhousie wrote "Vovi" - I've Oudh.

  (Peccavi in Latin is "I have sinned;" vovi is "I vowed")

  Source: http://wordsmith.org/awad/awadmail167.html

  December 2, 2006