windsor has adopted no words, looked up 0 words, created 3 lists, listed 52 words, written 4 comments, added 0 tags, and loved 3 words.

Comments by windsor

  • You know what I want (besides a pony and my two front teeth)? I want to see the number of people who have a word on their list. So instead of clicking on the word to see how popular it is, I want to see it the list, just like I can see the number of words a user has on their lists. Because, really, I care more about the words than I do about the people.

    December 6, 2006

  • I love that the first recorded use of this word (1620) is the act of defenestration that was a precursor to the 30-years war. It's nearly four hundred years old, and yet it sounds like somebody made it up last year.

    December 6, 2006

  • Everytime I read the word "apposite" I have to look it up. I even know what it means, but I lose faith in my own memory and look it up. Because, you know, "that word: I do not think it means what you think it means."

    December 6, 2006

  • I actually love the adjectival form, as when used by WS in Measure for Measure, "concupiscible intemperate lust."

    Wait: is that adjectival? Isn't it already an adjective? Then what's concupiscible?

    December 6, 2006

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