wordage

abraxaszugzwang commented on the list wordage

Two from my list: shrinkage and vagabondage.

then, of course, there's just regular bondage. And baggage.

March 6, 2007

abraxaszugzwang commented on the list wordage

suffrage, outrage, page, rage, cage, sage (do you want those itsy bitsy ones?) Hmmm, Power outage? seepage (gross), luggage, cabbage, ravage

March 6, 2007

reesetee commented on the list wordage

portage, carriage

March 6, 2007

valse commented on the list wordage

package, footage, stockage, underage, overage, coverage...oo, and pillage

March 6, 2007

chained_bear commented on the list wordage

Do we have something against marriage?

March 6, 2007

trivet commented on the list wordage

So many wordsies! Thank you all. C-b, I do have something against marriage - I just don't like the -riage (except maybe for triage). Also, I'm going for polysyllabic and stuff-related rather than time-related -ages.

March 6, 2007

abraxaszugzwang commented on the list wordage

well, if you don't like marriage, how about mirage?

March 6, 2007

valse commented on the list wordage

vintage, lineage, rampage. I have to suggest, though I wouldn't blame you for not accepting it: pwnage

March 6, 2007

sionnach commented on the list wordage

umbrage, spillage, frottage, spoilage, foliage, greengage, collage :}

and how could I, as a statistician, forget average

March 6, 2007

uselessness commented on the list wordage

In a similar statistical vein, how about percentage?

March 6, 2007

chained_bear commented on the list wordage

Hey. I take umbrage at that. (Not really, and also I know it's already on your list. But how often does one get to use the word umbrage anyway? You can't blame me for grabbing the opportunity.)

You do have verbiage and foliage as well, even though you've declined carriage and marriage. Hmm... how about potage, tonnage, voyage, plumage?

March 6, 2007

chained_bear commented on the list wordage

orphanage, parsonage, porterage? Message, passage, pilgrimage, postage? Advantage, equipage?

I found a number of very weird and probably obsolete terms, if you're interested.

Also I noticed you have wreakage but not wreckage.

March 6, 2007

trivet commented on the list wordage

Thanks! I hadn't realized just how many -age words there are. I'll take any and all that I like, however strange, but reserve the right to exclude average, advantage, percentage and the like - just cause I don't like the way they look.

March 6, 2007

uselessness commented on the list wordage

Well then, how about frontage, anchorage, and storage? If you really are at all interested in walking on the wild side (though apparantly marriage and average are too wild?) perhaps you might consider backstage, xylophage, and enrage?

March 6, 2007

trivet commented on the list wordage

Thanks for your wild suggestions, u, but I'm only listing -age suffixes. -rage, -phage, and -stage are for someone else to take on. And I just don't like marriage, etc - too average, I guess.

March 6, 2007

uselessness commented on the list wordage

I told you they were wild. ;-)

March 6, 2007

chained_bear commented on the list wordage

I found an interesting usage note in the OED for the suffix "-age." Even though it isn't a suggestion, it seems like it might belong here. I humbly submit:

suffix of abstr. nouns, originally in words adopted from Fr., afterwards a living Eng. formative. (OFr. -age: late L. -ticum, a favourite termination of abstr. ns. of appurtenance, and collectives; orig. neuter of adjectives in -tic-us. Cf. cl. L. silv-ticus of the wood (silva), It. selv-aggio, Pr. salv-atge, Fr. sauv-age, Eng. sav-age, with viticus of or pertaining to a journey (via), viticum that which pertains to a journey, provision for the way, later the making of a journey, Pr. viatge, It. viaggio, Fr. viage, voyage; umbrticus of or pertaining to the shade, shady (umbra), late L. umbrticum that which is shady, shadiness, a mass of shade, Fr. ombrage, Eng. umbrage. Afterwards a common formative in Fr. itself, as in entour-age; thence readopted in med.L. as -gium: cf. homgium, carigium, formed on Fr. hommage, cariage, which if formed in L. would have been *hominticum, *carricticum.)

1. From names of things, indicating that which belongs to or is functionally related to... (e.g. language)

2. From names of persons, indicating function, sphere of action, condition, rank... (e.g. orphanage, vassalage)

3. From verbs expressing action... (e.g. damage, marriage)

Isn't that cool? I had no idea. What an awesome language we have.

March 6, 2007

sionnach commented on the list wordage

persiflage, and the closely related badinage

March 20, 2007

trivet commented on the list wordage

Thanks, sionnach. And chained_bear, I don't know how I missed your OED delvings - I've always enjoyed -age for its ability to connotate stuff/ness and now I know why. Cool.

March 20, 2007

asativum commented on the list wordage

There's also lastage, a kind of transport fee.

January 16, 2008

trivet commented on the list wordage

oooh, thank you! I'm glad I learned about the right to carry things where one will!

January 17, 2008

sionnach commented on the list wordage

gavage (not so nice if you're a rodent or a goose). Then there is the more specialized subset here:

XX-age

January 17, 2008

seanahan commented on the list wordage

When I was around 14 my friends and I used to use -age as a suffix for just about everything, to denote coolness.

January 17, 2008

skipvia commented on the list wordage

Did it work, seanahan? Because I might want to try it to increase my, ummm, coolage.

January 17, 2008

sionnach commented on the list wordage

It's a fine line; pile on too much wordage and suddenly you've crossed that threshold into bloviage. Where the toll for all that excess verbal baggage can cost you some serious coinage.

January 17, 2008

skipvia commented on the list wordage

Well, I tried it with my broker. I wanted to acquire some US Treasuries, so I asked her if she would be into a little bondage. She threw me out.

I guess I'm just not as cool as seanahan...

January 17, 2008

trivet commented on the list wordage

Thanks, y'all!

January 17, 2008

seanahan commented on the list wordage

It seemed to work to make me cooler (relatively, of course) when I was 14, but I think that these days it wouldn't work. For words where the "age" suffix wouldn't work, we used "action". So instead of bondage, you'd have bond-action, or for barrage, barrage-action.

January 21, 2008

bilby commented on the list wordage

saxifrage, manurage, grattage, thanage, dumpage, eatage, hersage, bricolage, ramage, lactage, viduage, curettage, ambage, keelage, soccage, careenage, foggage, imposturage, lockage, panderage, rubbage.

November 20, 2008

sionnach commented on the list wordage

mmmm ... snausages

Checks to see if someone has taken umbrage yet. Nope, guess it's still there.

November 20, 2008

chained_bear commented on the list wordage

Ooh! *pilfers for own list*

November 20, 2008

trivet commented on the list wordage

How very illuminating. Thank you, my furry friends!

(Special thanks to the bear for all the citations...)

November 21, 2008

yarb commented on the list wordage

This week I've been thinking about demurrage.

November 21, 2008

reesetee commented on the list wordage

Lots of delayed cargo lately, yarb?

November 21, 2008