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first cousins once removed
April 27, 2011
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Are you related to uselessness?
April 27, 2011
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landlessness commented on the word beaubien
There is a street in Detroit called Beaubien named for one of the old 18th century French families of that city. As a surname it seems like a typical French Canadian sobriquet. Beaubien looks like a combination of beau (beautiful) and bien (good).
January 20, 2018
landlessness commented on the user landlessness
first cousins once removed
April 27, 2011
landlessness commented on the word landlessness
I first read this word in Moby Dick and fell in love with it. it's got alliteration with the l's. -less and -ness rhyme, but have opposing meanings. it's the perfect little package.
Plus, the context of the word in chapter 23 of Moby Dick was pretty powerful:
"But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God -- so, better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety!"
April 27, 2011