Yet 'invasive' is not really the right description of it, and possibly 'exvasive' would be more appropriate: blood leaves the body, is essentially cleansed and then returned in a purified, and life-saving, state.
--Malcolm MacLachlan, 2004, Embodiment: Clinical, Critical, and Cultural Perspectives on Health and Illness, p. 159
But Wordie's policy of combining them was equally problematic, and Wordnik often provides cross-references. If you search for "wordnik", it asks "Were you looking for Wordnik?" If you search for "america", it says "The definitions below are for America. The examples and other data are for the variant you requested, america."
"Some users of Where's George, called Georgers, have created cool Where's George related pages for all Georgers to enjoy. This page lists some of them."
Arnold watched how Sylvester put together set lists, how he came in with just a bag of stuff and whipped together some drag in time for a show, how he brought packs of tiny square mirrors and a glue gun and made himself jackets that twinkled in the stage lights.
--Joshua Gamson, 2006, The Fabulous Sylvester, p. 107
Hi mschwarz, a search in Google Books shows that sustainism was used before your coinage, with a similar meaning:
"Sustainism" is suggested as an alternative to "technocentrism" and "ecocentrism" with an emphasis on people's rights, biodiversity and limits. A new model of the good life results.
--Religious and Theological Abstracts, Volume 40 (1997)
Bom-Bom-Bootz!: You can begin playing this with your child as soon as the soft spot in the skull, just above the forehead closes. Do not indulge in this game after your child reaches the age of two. There are reliable records of parents having suffered serious concussions from playing Bom-Bom-Bootz with overage youngsters.
--Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain - 1984, The Berenstains' Baby Book, p. 112
This has made me think about my own life, growing up in a quasighetto, Williamsburg, in Brooklyn. It wasn't until my late teens that I realized there was any reason to think of it as a ghetto.
--Karl Kroeber, 1994, American Indian Persistence and Resurgence, p. 56
The "French Pacific" in the Polynesian South Pacific comprises another nuclear-rich zone of experiment, beach pleasures, and quasiterror that has witnessed the resistance of indigenous political and cultural mobilization during the 1980s . . . .
--Rob Wilson, 2000, Reimagining the American Pacific, p. 69
Inhibiting FtsZ alone caused every cell to grow as a long filament . . . whereas inhibiting only MreB caused every cell to round up into a sphere . . . or into a quasilemon or squarish shape . . . .
--Archana Varma, Miguel A. de Pedro, and Kevin D. Young, 2007, Journal of Bacteriology 189(15)
Both Russian presidents actively used their quasiveto and law-making prerogatives, all allowed by the RCC, and vetoed bills on the grounds of their noncompliance with RCC decisions.
--Alexei Trochev, 2008, Judging Russia: Constitutional Court in Russian Politics, 1990-2006, p. 211
Also, a quasinode (ie the point of minimum tidal range) may shift up river as a result of the increase in first-order linear friction; at the location where the quasinode was during low runoff conditions the tide range would then actually increase with increased river flow.
--Bruce B. Parker, 1991, Tidal Hydrodynamics, p. 257
Young and handsome Marc Porel and Pierre Zimmer would play quasilove interests for Jackie, although the understated relationship of the movie was really between her and an eleven-year-old boy, played by Jean-Francois Maurin.
--Frawley Becker, 2004, And the Stars Spoke Back: a Dialogue Coach Remembers Hollywood, p. 134
Aydelotte foresees that the major portion of health care delivery will occur in ambulatory care; home and quasihome, occupational, child care centers; and school settings.
--Norma L. Chaska, 1983, The Nursing Profession: a Time to Speak, p. 808
Thanks, Dan. It looks like the only other instance your search found with two i's changing to a's is Mimi / mama, so the pattern is rarer than I thought. The only others I know of are ibis, iris, pipi, and titi.
The first zone was supposed to be completely filled with two electrons and the remaining one electron was to occupy the second zone. The core and the electrons in the completely filled zone were assumed to form a quasicore.
--S. Prakash and S. K. Joshi, 1970, "Grüneisen parameter of aluminum", Physica 47(3)
Hi Dan, I like your computation on Anadromes. Could you run one that looks for words that remain words if all the a's are changed to i's, e.g., asthma, isthmi; quacksalver, quicksilver. Thanks, Mollusque
In the meeting it was resolved that they would shift to primogeniture from ultimogeniture. but some parents, he said, favoured a middle son, and so on. There was no animousness in actual practice.
--H. Kamkhenthang, 1988, The Paite, a Transborder Tribe of India and Burma, p. 146
But what chiefly solicited my attention was, that all these appearances in malignant ulcers, their acrimony, the saniousness of the discharge, the corrosion, the spongy flesh, the callous granulations, &c. were always in proportion to the extent of the morbid circumjacent parts, and the extent itself, the product of habitual virulence.
--J. Vage, 1799, "Observations on inveterate ulcers", Medical and Physical Journal 2: 351
I would observe that the soundness of the teeth may be best secured, and, in consequence, much pain avoided, by cleaning them with a brush and cold water just before bed-time; and that, if the pain in the face should proceed from some other cause than that of cariousness in any tooth, I would dissuade patients from using those narcotic preparations so generally recommended and unfortunately adopted for tic-doloreux, and similar affections . . .
--Rev. Samuel Fenton, 1841, The Excellent Properties of Salted Brandy as a most Efficacious Medicine and Sedative, p. 23
. . . for strong meat-broth by itself would prove indigestible on account of its heavy and viscous adipousness, were it not neutralized by the addition of vegetable substances.
--Ange Denis Macquin, 1820, Tabella cibaria, p. 24
But really duck souper it had been for him because in the basement of the dorm was a marble & tile bathing pool, an underworld, romanesque oasis and paraparadise, to which he had unimpeded access and a purloined key.
In the dying days of the Soviet Union, when faith healers, fortune-tellers, tyromancers and pyromancers and gyromancers all became temporary norths for the wildly wavering needles of lost citizens' need to believe, Tiima's theory enjoyed a brief vogue in villages west of Tallinn.
--Jon Fasman, 2006, The Geographer's Library, p. 283
Jadid and Gomes bickered like an old married couple as they put on their coats and walked down the department steps. Gomes teased Joe about his clothes, calling his style "neohomeless"; Joe snatched the car keys out of Gome's hand and told me that he drove like he was always worried about giving himself a speeding ticket.
--Jon Fasman, 2006, The Geographer's Library, p. 213
"Yes sir, along here gets to be a fairly good-size dreen," said Miss Ora. "Don't it, Brother? Panther Creek gets in a hurry sometimes to get to the old Bywy."
"All right, New Shoes! I'm fixing to smack you hard right across those pones of yours, where you need it most," she cried. "And for the rest of your punishment, you're to come straight home from school today and tell me something you've learned."
It was the little silver snuffbox that Captain Jordan in his lifetime had come by, that had been Granny's to keep for as long as anybody could remember, that rolled across the floor and down into the folds of the cannas.
Well, but there's bodocks and bodocks growing between here and the road," said Elvie. "They're lining our way. They couldn't all be Grandpa Vaughn's horse switches from when he came riding to see Granny and get her to marry 'im."
And in the most mosquitery little voice you ever heard in your life, with lots of pauses for breath, she testifies that no, she and Bonnie Dee were not twins, they just came real close together, and their mama used to play-like they were twins.
That's how everybody—me and whoever was in here at the time, drummers, boarders, lawyers, and strangers—had to listen to Uncle Daniel mirate and gyrate over Bonnie Dee.
There were unnoticeable places where the paint had run down those hard rods, that had never quite got dry, and when George went away on a case or was late coming home she would lie there indenting these little rivers of paint with her thumbnail very gently, to kill time, the way she would once hold rose petals on her tongue and gently bite them, waiting here in the store, the days when he courted.
But where George was importunate, Dabney was almost greedy. Dabney was actually, at moments, almost selfish, and he was not. That is, she thought, frowning, George had not Dabney's kind of unselfishness which is a dread of selfishness, but the thoughtless kind, which is often cheated of even its flower like tender perennial that will disregard the winter earlier every year . . . .
I think this should be called the "Florida Key List", since it doesn't seem to be restricted to keys in the Florida Keys (which would be the "Florida Keys Key List"). By the way, there are two Sand Keys in Florida, only one of them in the Keys.
But animosity also ran high against 'those rascals the surgeons', sporadic antisurgeon riots being directed against their infamous and often illegal traffic in bodies for dissection.
--W. F. Bynum and Roy Porter, 2002, William Hunter and the Eighteenth-Century Medical World, p. 10
When a single series antisturgeon serum was tested with these two species, no reaction was recorded, even though with the homologous antigen the potency of the single series antiserum was much greater . . . .
--Zoologica: Scientific Contributions of the New York Zoological Society, 1942, p. 113
This latter possibility would increase the range within which government participation in the taxation of gross profits could be undertaken unabortively.
--Guy C. Z. Mhone, 1982, The Political Economy of a Dual Labor Market in Africa, p. 228
Thus, we will ignore the second incentive-compatibility constraint and later check that it is indeed satisfied in the solution of the "subconstrained problem."
--Jean Tirole, 1994, The Theory of Industrial Organization, p. 153
I pulled the New Girl along by the hand with me across that snag-footed ice plant field with the sun straight up above in a cloudless sky, the winds getting the New Girl's unponytailed hair . . . .
I'm repeating my plea from four months ago: please up the character limit on list descriptions. I can't add patterns to the description of Panvocalic euryvocalic because I maxed out at 20,000 characters.
Thanks, hernesheir, but these don't quite fit the list. Gaub seems to be the name of the fruit, not its gum, and pounce can be made of powdered gum, but isn't always.
This pleasure either the young men copied from the older ones or the older ones always kept. The grown people, like the children, looked with kindling eyes at all turmoil, expecting delight for themselves and for you.
They all had a fleetness about them, though they were tall, solid people with "Scotch legs" — a neatness that was actually a readiness for gaieties and departures, a distraction that was endearing as a lack of burdens.
Then he took his foot off the gangplank and came down and brought her home, not failing to take her by the priest's and marrying her on the way. And indeed it was in time's nick.
He was a pretty little man—almost girlishly pretty, with his fair hair and china-blue eyes—and he could not help being pleasantly aware that a lot of women were attracted by his Fauntleroyish good looks and cosy, insinuating ways.
It has. Any news on the panvovalic front? My best find recently was "reattributor", a more pleasing solution than the iffy "earthinductor" for "eaiuo". I think all 120 patterns now have an acceptable lower case English word associated.
The tag function is quirky. The first person to use the tag determines its capitalization pattern, but other than that, tags are not case-sensitive. The tags "ABC" and "abc" point to the same thing.
I don't see how you can put "fenugreek" in the same class as "plinth", reesetee. With "plinth" the delight is the physical sensation of saying the word, whereas "fenugreek" can be savored silently.
This upheaval was perhaps made more painful by the fact that the deattributors' arguments were essentially based on traditional art-historical principles with only occasional use of auxiliary technical and analytical methods of examination.
--Hubertus von Sonnenburg and Walter A. Liedtke, 1995, Rembrandt/not Rembrandt in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: aspects of connoisseurship, Vol. 1
Hamerton was one of the first art critics to rely on more than superficial evidence when making his attributions; in this he set the pattern for the great reattributors to come, such as Bernard Berenson.
--in Joel H. Wiener, 1985, Innovators and preachers: the role of the editor in Victorian England
Responding to ruzuzu's question on my profile, we starting tagging convowel paterns nine or ten months ago, according to the comments I made on Tank Hughes profile.
Ever since Dabney had announced that she would marry Troy, Shelley had been practicing, rather consciously, a kind of ragamuffinism. Or else she drew up, like an old maid.
Usually optical navigation uses whatever scientific instruments are already on the spacecraft, but in 2005 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter carried a "navcam" which was designed and built for optical navigation.
--Michael E. Drews, Robert D. Culp, eds., Guidance and Control 2008, p. 343
Could you spare John and Grant to work on Wordie for a while? They are spending all their time on another site called Wordnik, and the old Wordie spirit is slowly fading away. Two years ago, Wordie was rollicking along at up to 3000 comments a week. Wordnik limps along at one tenth that. Requests for routine fixes often take weeks to months to act on, and some functions/features that we had on Wordie still have not been implemented on Wordnik, making it harder for new users to get oriented and resulting in the loss of long-time stalwarts such as sionnach.
I think the emphasis on portal and other automated functions ignores much of the potential of the site. What about crowd-sourcing? Maybe you could get a grant to train selected users in lexicographic principles and allow them to create and edit definitions. If one percent of the 50,000 users defined one undefined word per day, almost 200,000 definitions would be added per year. Other aspects of the site could also benefit from concerted attention. For example, a slightly upgraded related word function could be the basis of an extraordinary navigable network of words.
Hi John, any chance of getting the character limit on list descriptions raised to 40,000 or so? I can't keep up with hernesheir's euryvocalic discoveries otherwise.
I'm unable to update the list description for Panvocalic euryvocalic, though I can update descriptions for other lists. Am I running into a length limit again?
Edit: including html, it's up around 20,000 characters (and if I ever complete the euryvocalic circumnavigation, it will eventually hit at least 40,000).
As we were driving this morning, my daughter said, "I like creative license plates". A moment later she said, "Hey doesn't that belong on a Wordie list?" Indeed!
In order to write and illustrate Laika, a story that had intrigued him since childhood, Abadzis spent years doing research on the Soviet space program, the Cosmodog program, and the people of the Soviet Union.
--Katie Monnin, 2010, Teaching Graphic Novels, p. 82
Among the hesperiids, I could confirm only the Erynnis species as having occurred in print. The other three appear to be subspecies elevated to full species in online databases and portals, but I don't know if this is based on something published in a scientific journal, or is just an error in one database propogated to others. I've listed the names under Supervocalic in Waiting.
Did you know that you can search for vowel patterns in Nomenclator Zoologicus? Here's the result of searching for *a*e*i*o*y*u* in advanced mode, with the box for "exact match" checked.
Thanks again! I've picked up some other euryvocalic patterns in the last few days by comparing the words that you've tagged with 5-vowel patterns to the ones I've tagged.
The final aim of Jameson's project is to offer a theory of the fractured nature of postmodern or technological subject in terms of an equally disfigured and dehumanized multinational capitalism. For this reason "older theories of the sublime" are dragged out in an act of pseudopanic to explain the subject "blissed out before feats of postmodern commodification".
A nominal number (sometimes called a categorical number) is a number you use for identification only. It doesn't matter what the value of the number is.
--Barry Schoenborn and Bradley Simkins, 2010, Technical Math For Dummies, p. 39
This is a great list, madmouth. Lots of words look like they fit but don't: feedback, blowhole. How about list for noun-verb compounds where the result is a verb: windowshop, breastfeed, skydive?
Given the meaning of "uremia" (a form of blood poisoning), "polyuremia" should not be a synonymy of "polyuria" (excessive urination). Uremia is much more likely to result from too little urination than too much. It's not clear that anyone has used it in the sense of "multiple forms of uremia in one individual", which is what it would be expected to mean.
This usage in Ullmann's Encyclopedia of industrial chemistry 24: 258 (1988) might be correct: "Premature coronary and/or circulatory arrest and/or a kidney malfunction which results in anuria and uremia are possible. Eventual transition to polyuremia can occur. Death occurs in the coma or through kidney failure."
But I wouldn't expect the word to be used in a chemical encyclopedia, unless it already existed in the medical literature. The couple of occurrences I've found there look like errors for "polyuria". For example in the abstract of this article in PubMed, "polyuria" and "polyuremia" seem to be used interchangeably.
Sorry, hernesheir, I don't agree. In the first example you posted, "cinaceous" is demonstrably a misspelling of "vinaceous", since the quotation was copied from an earlier source. The second quotation comes from a source that uses "vinaceous" 26 times and "cinaceous" only one. Since "c" is next to"v" on the keyboard, the simplest explanation is that it is a typo for "vinaceous".
The English color words from Latin cinis, cineris follow the usual pattern of being derived from the genitive form, not the nominative: cinereal, cinerous and cineritious.
The wrongest step of all is to be so eaten up with your own calamity as to be led into crime. The temple of your body is sacred; it was not yours to give, it is not yours to destroy.
--Oliver Lodge, 1921, "The Ethics of Suicide", The Fortnightly 110: 597
Thanks for the trove of new finds, hernesheir! I've added an acknowledgement of your help on the euryvocalic list. I couldn't confirm two of the names' appearing in print (Copestylum kahli and Hybomitra vulpes), possibly because they are subsequent combinations that have occurred only in databases so far.
I hit 49 languages on the polyglot list yesterday, making 50 (including English) in which panvocalics are known.
The substance of it abecedarium'>the abecedarium seldom varied. First came a cross, a charm "against the devil that may be in the letters"—hence the term "Christ-cross" or "criss-cross" row; next two alphabets, one of small letters and one of capitals; then three rows of syllables, those mystic incantations that sounded in every American schoolroom down to very recent times—"abebib" and "babebibobu"; and last, "In the Name of the Father" and the Lord's Prayer. And there the child's education usually ended.
--Morris S. Bishop, 1915, Catholic Educational Review 10: 23
Wow! Thanks for the page images, Prolagus (now capitalized I see). Looking through the Italian panvocalics, I find that we've listed about a third of them already. Could you advise about the acceptability of the following?
"babebibobu": word or sound effect?
"assessorucci": appears on some websites, but not in Google Books (except in the book in question).
"apicolture": misspelling of "apicoltore"?
"caposervitù": appears only in lists of Italian panvocalics
I'm not sure what you mean. As far as I know, there is only one original genus in which edwardsi Van Duzee, 1930 was introduced, and whether the genus is paraphyletic is not relevant to the spelling of the specific name. Also, the nomenclatural rules do not require "authority"; they can be applied by anyone who has an interest. In this case the rule is Article 32.2 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature: "The original spelling of a name is the 'correct original spelling', unless it is demonstrably incorrect as provided in Article 32.5." There is no doubt that Chrysotus edwardsi is the correct spelling.
He told me about the chamomiles, the hellebores, the petunias, the sweet williams, the wild pinks, the anemones, the sedums, the candytufts, the peonies, the Syrian opals, the daturas, the flowers that live for only a season, the ones that come back year after year, and the ones that beam from dawn to dusk, displaying their delicate corollas of rosy or mauve convolvulus, only to close abruptly at nightfall, as if a wrathful hand had squeezed their velvet petals and choked them.
He looked at me, smiling, now as ever since our talk with that priestly gaze designed to reach in and pull out our souls like a cooked snail from its shell.
And old Mrs. Marchoprat, that gossip, immediately closed her door, pulled the iron grate shut, and ran to report to her dear friend Mélanie Bonnipeau, a pious bonneted biddy who spent most of her time scanning the street from her low window . . . .
Another bug to report: I couldn't delete my "auieo" tag on mandt's guillemot when I changed my listing to Mandt's Guillemot. I changed a bunch in similar fashion (lowercase to uppercase), but that was the only one I couldn't delete. When I click on the "x", all it does is add "#" to the URL.
The "Wordnik is" statistics at the top of the Zeitgeist page are incorrect. Also, the "move' function to transfer a word from one to another is not working.
An interesting kind of dictionary word: its first occurrence seems to be in a French-English dictionary from 1836, as a translation of "âpreté. "Scabiousness" is properly formed in English, but seems not to be used, perhaps because "scabbiness" is used instead.
The hairs covering the leaves consist of a simple row of cells, and show a curious disposition of the tannin; as a rule, the alternate cells are tannigerous, the intervening ones have chlorophyll and are without tannin; the proximal cell of the hair may have tannin, or be a chlorophyll-cell.
--Spencer Le M. Moore, 1891, The Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 27: 529
. . . in Cynomorium coccineum the ovule is destitute of a micropyle, tho pollen-tube finding its way to the embryo-sac through a vacuolated and amyligerous cone of tissue in the micropylar region of the ovule.
--Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society 1900(1): 691
The aphernousli, or arkennousli of Switzerland, Trent, Carniola, & c. might probably thrive to great advantage in our bleak, barren, rocky, mountainous tracts of land . . . .
The citation being "true" on its face is equivalent to the poor taxonomy option. That would mean that "pseudomantid" was a term used by orthopterists, and the writer of the Collier's article thought that "pseudomantids" were raphidopterans. In support of this interpretation, an Encyclopedia Americana article from 1951 say Raphidiodea have "the appearance of mantids". However, an entomologist would not normally use the word pseudomantid unless there were a family Pseudomantidae. There is no such family (only the tribe Pseudomantini), and there is no evidence that members of the genus Pseudomantis are called pseudomantids. On the other hand, I have not been able to find a raphidopteran genus beginning with "pseudo-", so there is no obvious word for "pseudomantid" to be an error for.
The quotation is about Raphidiodea, which is now known as Raphidioptera, whereas Pseudomantis is part of Orthoptera. These are different orders of insects, so it is not true that raphidiodeans are sometimes called "pseudomantids". It's not clear what the error was: a malaprop, a misspelling, or poor taxonomy.
Incubation of the enzyme with an excess of the strong reduc- tant dithionite (40 electrons/mol enzyme) resulted in two new Mov EPR signals (pseudorapid split and unsplit Mov signals).
--Astrid Sigel and Helmut Sigel, 2002, Molybdenum and Tungsten: Their Roles in Biological Processes, p. 389
Misspelling of pseudophakic in ophthalmological contexts. "Pseudo-phatic" appears correct in other context, but a citation without a hyphen hasn't been found (yet).
The three-story mute concrete surfaces left behind are an antihouse, a public presentation of the interior living space that at the same time asserts and denies domesticity.
Thanks for the birdwirds, hernesheir! I will eventually root them out of your lists, so don't feel obligated, but I do appreciate the updates of your finds, particularly the new euryvocalic patterns. Is there a particular kind you want me to flag for you?
Belated congratulations on pushing past 2000 convowel patterns. Quite a jump from 25 days ago!
All cedulas are approved by a multi-party committee, one of several steps in the cedulation process where the political parties will be allowed to vet voter registration lists.
--John Clements, 1996, Clements' International Report, p. 72
Many intellectuals are motivated by different desires—not the accretious ones of having ready access to fashion, beer, autos, and appliances, but the longing for an infinitely deferred utopia . . . .
--Timothy Brennan, 1997, At Home in the World: Cosmopolitanism Now, p. 216
An analysis of measurement errors in mandibulometry with special reference to their influence on the results of inter-population relationship analysis.
--K. Koizumi and M. J. Kouchi, 1988, Journal of the Anthropological Society of Tokyo 96: 339.
When Wordnik has no definition for a word, it brings up comments instead, with a link to "older comments" if there are more than two. But the link brings up younger comments, not older (see galenious). It probably is best to display the oldest first, since that's the one most likely to be an example.
I just found that Enciclopedia dei giochi, by Giampaolo Dossena (1999), has a list of Italian panvocalics. Unfortunately, only a snippet view is available. Have you heard of this book?
This arteriolus anastomosed into a precapillary with wider lumen without muscles in the wall, and ramified into alveolar capillaries in the lung-tissue surrounding the bronchus . . . .
Placement of the side nodes at the midpoint rather than the quarterpoint was adopted to reduce the spurious unloading and to allow larger load increments.
--Gerald W. Wellman et al, 1988, Fracture Mechanics: Eighteenth Symposium, p. 545
I have found that many scientists who think they are newfound friends of qualia turn out to use the term in ways no self- respecting qualophile philosopher would countenance.
--Daniel Clement Dennett, 2005, Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness, p. 87
I thought you'd like it, hernesheir. The preferred spelling is probably "galenous", but that has fewer than ten hits in Google Books (excluding Galenous = Galen), so I figured "galenious" was a legitimate variant. Finding a previously overlooked aeiou word is particularly satisfying.
At the upper extremity, looking directly toward the perpendicular face of the mountain that rises up to the hight of three thousand feet, you see, plainly marked, a stratum of galenious rock in the form of a perfect horseshoe.
--Harry T. Gause, 1871, Journal of a Summer Trip to Colorado and the Rocky Mountains, p. 102
The large chiroptivorous bull-dog bat (Phyllostomus hastatus) is much larger and more fearsome-appearing than the vampires, but it is not dangerous to man or to most other animals except small bats.
--Julian Haynes Steward, 1950, Handbook of South American Indians, p. 365
Thanks, John. Tags are working as hoped. I can be restrictive in my tags, and hernesheir can be permissive. To me, this is the stuff of lexicography. I consider "temarious" to be a misspelling of "temerarious", so I don't tag it with "eaiou", but hernesheir might want to. Who's to say it won't someday overtake "temerarious" as the preferred spelling? Wordnik allows variants and misspellings to be cross-referenced and discussed, so those who encounter them can reach their own decisions.
Oh yes, human life is very tolerable on the top of an omnibus in Holborn, when the policeman holds up his arm and the sun beats on your back, and if there is such a thing as a shell secreted by man to fit man himself here we find it, on the banks of the Thames, where the great streets join and St Paul's Cathedral, like the volute on the top of the snail shell, finishes it off.
Rhinolalia is altered speech caused by abnormal airflow through the nose during phonation. It may an organic or functional cause. While it is technically correct to distinguish between altered voice sounds (rhinophonia) and altered sound production (rhinolalia), both terms are often used interchangeably. Several types of rhinolalia are distinguished based on the voice sound . . . .
--Rudolf Probst, Gerhard Grevers and Heinrich Iro, 2006, Basic Otorhinolaryngology: a Step-by-step Learning Guide, 401
Thanks for the Eckler sentence, oroboros. I wonder if it's possible to construct a six word sentence with euryvocalics. I nominate psychostimulate as the verb.
My request (from six months ago) to restore the Wordie ability to be able to link to one's own tags is getting urgent. Hernesheir and I are both tagging vowel patterns for panvocalics, but we have different criteria for what should be listed, and in some cases what should be tagged. I'd like to be able to link to my own tags. Is it possible to change from relative links like
Transcription error for vinaceous, corrected in a subsequent edition:
"Similar to C. fasciata, but with the tail-band wanting or only faintly indicated, the general coloration lighter and more uniform, the vinaceous tints, especially, being more or less replaced by bluish-ash.
--Elliott Coues, 1903, Key to North American Birds, p. 710
This is an error for "liliaceous" by Turner in translating Marcel de Serres (1829: 22), "que l'on peut rapprocher des palmiers et des liliacées arborescentes".
Any citations for apervious? It shows up in Google Books and Google Scholar, but always seems to be an OCR error, or to mean Pervious Area (A subscript pervious) (the html sub tag isn't working).
MARIACHIS - strolling musicians dressed in traditional Spanish costumes who play traditional Mexican music, usually on guitars, guitarones (big bass guitars), violins, and sometimes trumpets.
--Michelle Motoyoshi, 1999, Mexicans in California, p. 58
Thanks for the updates! I think both wyes should be tagged for Xyrichtys melanopus. Since it's not euryvocalic, I don't count it as having one of the 720 arrangements of the six vowels.
He assumed that this neuronal control mechanism is provided by a closed circuit (gamma ring) comprising ventricolumnar cells, peripheral motor nerve, muscle, receptors, efferent sensory nerve, and again ventricolumnar cells.
--Yoshiharu Akishige, 1977, Psychological Studies on Zen 2: 133
This word seems to have been first introduced in dictionaries. It's in MW3 and goes back to at least 1916 (The American Illustrated Medical Dictionary, 8th ed., p. 1017), but it seems not to have escaped until recently.
In the present study, rat dorsal root ganglion sensory neurons and ventricolumna motoneurons following isolated culture in vitro were used to investigate synergistic effects of NGF, CNTF and GDNF on survival and growth of neurons.
--J. Chen, et al., 2010, Advances in Medical Sciences 55: 32
You seem to have developed the knack as well! Before I noticed your comment on my profile I'd already pulled creatinous, aneuronic, pyrometallurgist (I had pyrometallurgic], physioneural, and polymetallurgic (a new euryvocalic pattern) off the Zeitgeist page .
I passed on taurodine (as explained there), and used the capitalized form of pleuronian (and Pleuronia as well).
Smells like a misspelling, but of what, I don't know. Maybe taurosine, but that's extremely rare too, and at least in some contexts may be a misspelling of tyrosine or taurine.
That's the problem in the outer stratosphere of the search for panvocalics. Rare words can be hard to distinguish from errors (see wasteliquor for an example).
Why not? Zircon, epidote, staurolite and sphene are common minerals that are often discussed in the same paper (example), and stauroline occurs in a paper in a journal where English is not a primary language.
As the business becomes more complex the tiny wires must be constantly watched. Every wire must have back of it the propulsative power and knowledge of a human mind.
But for all our propugnative activities there were moments of stress and pressure so that I lost my hat, suffered a torn coat and received a blow that made blood flow from my cheek, at which honorable sign of combat I knew pride and mental serenity.
Using a literary trick we may say that what was written so far represents scientists' everyday knowledge of everyday knowledge. As a result, such analyses are of postulative nature and do not result in empirical studies.
--Piotr Buczkowski, 1991, The Social Horizon of Knowledge, p. 177
At a high level, wobulation is sort of like interlaced video because it relies upon the persistence of vision, meaning you see something longer than it's actually in front of you, especially when images are changing very rapidly, like every 1/60 of a second. A DLP chip with wobulation uses another mirror that moves even faster(once every 1/120 of a second, or faster) to re-aim the pixels from individual mirrors on the DLP chipset.
--Danny Briere and Pat Hurley, 2007, HDTV for Dummies, p. 267
The absence of nodulative ability in these three species, in the face of its presence in the other 37 species of Acacia . . . particularly as none of the three species was found to have the coloured roots often associated with a lack of nodulative ability.
--J. H. Ross, 1979, A Conspectus of the African Acacia Species, p. 46
The protein is expressed in bacteria, purified by metal affinity chromatography, and liberated from the His6-SUMO fusion by cleavage with a modified version of the desumoylating enzyme Ulp1.
--Jane K. Setlow, 2006, Genetic Engineering: Principles and Methods, p. 111
The priest's words weighed heavily on Maurice Galvin. His own shortcomings had long haunted him—mostly on windy nights in his lonely cottage, especially, for a season, when he lay abed with his head broken by a mountainey man at Ballyboy fair.
--Lewis Macnamara, 1898, "The reformation of Maurice Galvin", Pall Mall Magazine 16: 223
Interesting distinction you've found hernesheir: "mountainey" means "in the mountains" or "from the mountains", whereas "mountainy" means "full of mountains", "associated with mountains".
Hugo is supposed to be a neovulgarist, although I don't know what that means in books. In frocks it means skirts made out of brushed Day-Glo acrylic and anything vinyl.
For instance, when Leo XIII effected the shift from the Church's profeudalism to its endorsement of middle-class democracy, the protagonists of feudalism inside the Vatican did not suddenly disappear.
--Wilfried Daim, 1970, The Vatican and Eastern Europe, p. 32
An immediate transition from neosultanism to a democratically elected government is almost impossible because of the lack of moderate, somewhat autonomous forces within the regime willing to negotiate such a move and because the country has no independent societal organizations and political institutions and parties, which can emerge only after the fall of the dictator.
--H. E. Chehabi and Juan José Linz, 1998, Sultanistic Regimes, p. 102
Now, by the middle of the twentieth century, it was about to make its dominant residential form a kind of neoruralism that came to be known as suburbanization.
--Ezra Mendelsohn, 1999, People of the City: Jews and the Urban Challenge, p. 21
Los Grupos consisted of more than fifteen groups of diverse social backgrounds, objectives, and artistic interests that included, among others, performance, photography, neomuralism, books, urban poetry, and urban theater.
--Luis Camnitzer et al., 1999, Global conceptualism: points of origin, 1950s-1980s, p. 59
They thought they'd be discussing funding for breast cancer research, but he wanted to talk about the neolunatic myth that there's a link between abortion and breast cancer.
--Shelley Lewis, 2006, Naked Republicans: a Full-frontal Exposure of Right-wing Hypocrisy and Greed, p. 18
Yes, the hyphenated forms usually appears first, but I don't list them, unless they're forms unlikely to lose the hyphen (e.g., soul-searchingly), in which case they go on Panvocalic phrases, or are proper names (e.g., Duplessis-Mornay, Port-au-Prince). Of course, that gives you and ruzuzu more room to romp . . .
Hi hernesheir, I have ultrarevolutionaries unhyphenated. Your discovering it independently is amazing! (I picked it up off a word records website a couple of years ago.)
I finally caught up with all your panvocalic plants (and other ponderable creatures), hernesheir. Thanks for helping to pushed my Panvocalic organisms list over 500 items!
In the process, I saw some tags that you'll probably want to revisit. I've noted them temporarily in the list description.
Hi ruzuzu, I tag only the vowel sequences; hernesheir also tags words as euvocalic, euryvocalic, and panvocalic. Do either or both, as you prefer. Include all the vowels when you tag, e.g., aeioue for "abstemiousness". I don't generally list panvocalics with extra vowels, so there is ample room for another list too. My Panvocalic polyglot list is open if you want to add to that.
However, the principal of grafting a patient's own vein remained largely ignored well into the 1960s. Although surgeons at Walter Reed Army Hospital successfully used autovein grafting in the early 1950s, most surgeons opted instead for arterial grafts.
--Kathryn Hahner, 1993, Perspectives on Medical Research, p. 65
He said "Scat!" to civilization and literally wandered autowise and otherwise into the northern wilderness with a writing pad, camera, sketchbook, rods, duffle bags and a khaki pillow case which he had the nerve to call a tent.
--Charles Bradford, 1921, The American Angler, p. 403
What would members of a congregation think of a minister who failed to appear in the pulpit on Sunday without notifying his members because he had an opportunity to golf, fish, autoride, sleep, rest, or engage in some other personal pleasure?
The DREADCO autopipe will store up its smoke as a long-lasting foam, to be inhaled at pleasure. The user would breathe out in big bubbles and these could be caught in a "bubble tray", preventing suffering for non-smokers nearby.
I have reason to believe that the boy is operating a borrowed, manually controlled vehicle on the Canada autopike, northbound from Philadelphia, ETD forty minutes ago.
--Keith Laumer, 1976, The Best of Keith Laumer, p. 112
The quantity of JJ-180, for security purposes, was shipped to Lilistar in five separate containers on five separate transports. Four reached Lilistar. One did not; the reegs destroyed it with an automine.
Automobile dealers often congregate in a single location (the "automile"). Furniture stores also cluster together. If there are three stores of a competing nature in a town, two in one location and one some distance away, the two may have an advantage.
--David E. Bell and Walter J. Salmon, 1996, Introduction to Retailing: Text and Cases, p. 180
But SUVs, which are essentially trucks with autolike bodies, have a high risk of a rollover due to their high center of gravity and can pose dangers to passengers and occupants.
--Ballard C. Campbell, 2008, American Disasters: 201 Calamities That Shook the Nation, p. 181
But if the Storable type attribute were identified as an "autolife" attribute (an object that could exist without other objects dependencies) it will not be deleted.
--Li Xu, A. Min Tjoa and Sohail Chaudhryl, 2007, Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems, vol. 2, p. 938
. . . and for apneumonic. Go ahead and tag where you want. I re-enter the vowel tags for panvocalics if someone else beats me to them, hoping that someday it will again be possible to link to one's own tags separately from general tags.
Sensors on his 'autokite', coupled via its control cables to a computerized manipulator on the ground, enable it to be flown aloft and stabilized at any altitude without human intervention. No matter how the wind fluctuates, the autokite reacts to maintain its height.
CJB's activity in the autoblending field will be represented by a typical electronic control panel as a unit in the complete installations available from the Autoblending Section of the Division.
Remember that Google performs autostemming; a search for “admin login” returns approximately 1.3 million results, including results that were autostemmed to include the phrase "administrator login.
--Johnny Long and Ed Skoudis, 2005, Google Hacking for Penetration Testers, p. 211
Common manipulations include autotruncation, autospelling checkers, thesauri matching, word frequency analysis, and more sophisticated semantic analysis.
--David Stern, 1999, Digital Libraries: Philosophies, Technical Design Considerations, and Example Scenarios, p. 73
As the gangue of the oxide concentrates and ores is mainly siliceous, it is not possible to obtain an autosmelting agglomerate, and it is necessary to add basic fluxes such as iron ore and limestone to the charge.
--Metallurgical Society Conferences 39: 107 (1959)
Manufacturing costs may be further reduced, where the varistors are formed as discs, because varistor discs are substantially cheaper to manufacture than blocks: discs may be formed by 'autopressing' and the firing thereof is quicker since they are much thinner than blocks.
So even blessing oneself is predicated on conventions of performance which display sensitivity to their interactive origins. It is interesting, however, that there is no conventional speech act for autoblessing in English, such as 'God bless me'.
--Kurt A. Bruder, 1998, "A pragmatics for human relationship with the divine: An examination of the monastic blessing sequence", Journal of Pragmatics 29(4)
Nasal turbinate mucosa and hard palate can be harvested in portions large enough for reconstruction of the upper and lower eyelid simultaneously. This allows for autostenting of the eyelids, upper to lower, during the healing phase.
--R. A. Goldberg et al., 1999, Archives of Ophthalmology 117: 1255
If John Doe is not within a proximity of the user at the reminder time of 7:00 am on Nov. 1, 2001, then the reminder can be presented to the user graphically, and audibly if so configured in the autoremind parameter.
--John P. Veschl, 2000, "Intelligent reminders for wireless PDA devices", U.S. Patent 7,212,827 B1
The procedure to follow to save the unused film depends on whether your camera features autorewind or is rewound manually; some SLR cameras with a motor drive offer both options.
--Tom Grimm and Michele Grimm, 2003, The Basic Book of Photography, p. 57
For example, there may be golden parachute clauses, loan forgiveness, or option autovesting in their employment or option agreements that are triggered by a change in control of the target.
--Steven M. Bragg, 2009, Controllership: The Work of the Managerial Accountant, p. 730
A major inconvenience, if the family wanted to stop by the roadside for lunch when autotenting, was that part of the car would have to be unpacked to get chairs, table, utensils, and food, taking away from the precious time that might be used to increase the day's mileage.
--Allan D. Wallis, 1997, Wheel Estate: The Rise and Decline of Mobile Homes, p. 36
It is known to use card readers in bank autotelling equipment, security, access systems, and in equipment where only authorized users should gain access, for information recorded on a card to be read.
--James C. R. Massey, 1989, "Card reading apparatus having a passive electric speed controller", U.S. Patent 4,914,279, column 1
Comments by mollusque
Show previous 200 comments...
mollusque commented on the word Wordnik Central
Wordnikian is an excellent coinage, strev! And wordprint is an excellent overlooked word.
February 13, 2011
mollusque commented on the word exvasive
Also a procedure on YouTube.
February 10, 2011
mollusque commented on the word exvasive
Also a procedure on YouTube.
February 10, 2011
mollusque commented on the word exvasive
Yet 'invasive' is not really the right description of it, and possibly 'exvasive' would be more appropriate: blood leaves the body, is essentially cleansed and then returned in a purified, and life-saving, state.
--Malcolm MacLachlan, 2004, Embodiment: Clinical, Critical, and Cultural Perspectives on Health and Illness, p. 159
February 10, 2011
mollusque commented on the word outvasive
Not to be confused with exvasive.
February 10, 2011
mollusque commented on the word snazzy
Reesetee used it here.
February 10, 2011
mollusque commented on the list citizens-band
Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy . . .
February 9, 2011
mollusque commented on the word Colophon
But Wordie's policy of combining them was equally problematic, and Wordnik often provides cross-references. If you search for "wordnik", it asks "Were you looking for Wordnik?" If you search for "america", it says "The definitions below are for America. The examples and other data are for the variant you requested, america."
February 6, 2011
mollusque commented on the word pancakes
I think you have to avoid "cake" in the name. You should call today's breakfast "flapjacks".
February 6, 2011
mollusque commented on the word mauka
The opposite of makai.
February 6, 2011
mollusque commented on the word Georger
"Some users of Where's George, called Georgers, have created cool Where's George related pages for all Georgers to enjoy. This page lists some of them."
--wheresgeorge.net
February 5, 2011
mollusque commented on the user feedback
Also, not able to add tags.
February 4, 2011
mollusque commented on the user feedback
The paging on comments isn't working properly. Only the first page can be seen.
February 4, 2011
mollusque commented on the word Wordnik
See Sylvestroid comment at glue gun.
February 1, 2011
mollusque commented on the word glue gun
Arnold watched how Sylvester put together set lists, how he came in with just a bag of stuff and whipped together some drag in time for a show, how he brought packs of tiny square mirrors and a glue gun and made himself jackets that twinkled in the stage lights.
--Joshua Gamson, 2006, The Fabulous Sylvester, p. 107
February 1, 2011
mollusque commented on the word sustainism
Hi mschwarz, a search in Google Books shows that sustainism was used before your coinage, with a similar meaning:
"Sustainism" is suggested as an alternative to "technocentrism" and "ecocentrism" with an emphasis on people's rights, biodiversity and limits. A new model of the good life results.
--Religious and Theological Abstracts, Volume 40 (1997)
Also, sustainity goes back to 1984.
February 1, 2011
mollusque commented on the list letters
Thanks ruzuzu, name and letters added.
February 1, 2011
mollusque commented on the word bom bom butz
My grandparents butzed me around 1960. There's more online about "bom bom butz" now than there was three years ago. It's also spelled "bam-bam-butz" (with a demo on YouTube), and "bom-bom-bootz" (with advice by the Berenstains).
January 30, 2011
mollusque commented on the word bom-bom-bootz
See bom bom butz.
January 30, 2011
mollusque commented on the word bam-bam-butz
See bom bom butz.
January 30, 2011
mollusque commented on the word bom-bom-bootz
Bom-Bom-Bootz!: You can begin playing this with your child as soon as the soft spot in the skull, just above the forehead closes. Do not indulge in this game after your child reaches the age of two. There are reliable records of parents having suffered serious concussions from playing Bom-Bom-Bootz with overage youngsters.
--Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain - 1984, The Berenstains' Baby Book, p. 112
January 30, 2011
mollusque commented on the word Wordnik
If I had a gnu I'd name it Oscar.
January 30, 2011
mollusque commented on the word Wordnik
Not even a staple gun?
January 30, 2011
mollusque commented on the word Wordnik
I did? Oh yeah, so I did. I was probably trying to trigger reesetee, but it seems uselessness took the bait.
January 29, 2011
mollusque commented on the word nanopublisher
At the margins, some new players (nanopublishers?) will emerge, and perhaps some older ones will fail to make the transition.
--Christian Crumlish, 2004, The Power of Many: How the Living Web is Transforming Politics, Business, and Everyday Life, p 214
January 29, 2011
mollusque commented on the word cookie
"Cookies" caught up to "crackers" in popularity around 1940, then surpassed them by 1970.
January 27, 2011
mollusque commented on the list lost-for-word
Egyptian style has left leg forward, but the torso isn't off-center.
January 27, 2011
mollusque commented on the word dropsical
How about mopsical and nimptopsical?
January 26, 2011
mollusque commented on the word quasighetto
This has made me think about my own life, growing up in a quasighetto, Williamsburg, in Brooklyn. It wasn't until my late teens that I realized there was any reason to think of it as a ghetto.
--Karl Kroeber, 1994, American Indian Persistence and Resurgence, p. 56
January 24, 2011
mollusque commented on the word quasiterror
The "French Pacific" in the Polynesian South Pacific comprises another nuclear-rich zone of experiment, beach pleasures, and quasiterror that has witnessed the resistance of indigenous political and cultural mobilization during the 1980s . . . .
--Rob Wilson, 2000, Reimagining the American Pacific, p. 69
January 24, 2011
mollusque commented on the word quasisensory
Our theory does not address mental imagery or the quasisensory experiences which are often a part of daydreaming . . . .
--Erik T. Mueller, 1990, Daydreaming in Humans and Machines, p. 19
January 24, 2011
mollusque commented on the word quasiperson
A quasiperson lacks the full range of rights accorded to a person, but enjoys at least most of the protections of personhood.
--Paola Cavalieri and Peter Singer, 1993, The Great Ape Project: Equality Beyond Humanity, p. 233
January 24, 2011
mollusque commented on the word quasilemon
Inhibiting FtsZ alone caused every cell to grow as a long filament . . . whereas inhibiting only MreB caused every cell to round up into a sphere . . . or into a quasilemon or squarish shape . . . .
--Archana Varma, Miguel A. de Pedro, and Kevin D. Young, 2007, Journal of Bacteriology 189(15)
January 24, 2011
mollusque commented on the word quasiveto
Both Russian presidents actively used their quasiveto and law-making prerogatives, all allowed by the RCC, and vetoed bills on the grounds of their noncompliance with RCC decisions.
--Alexei Trochev, 2008, Judging Russia: Constitutional Court in Russian Politics, 1990-2006, p. 211
January 24, 2011
mollusque commented on the word quasizero
Quasizero mode means that a direction in functional space exists where the action varies slowly.
--I. I. Balitsky and A. V. Yung, 1986, "Collective-coordinate method for quasizero modes", Physics Letters 168B(1-2): 113
January 24, 2011
mollusque commented on the word quasipore
. . . large quartz grains are situated in a quasipore within the porcelain matrix, the size of this pore being proportional to the quartz grain size.
--Richard M. Fulrath and Joseph Adam Pask, 1968, Ceramic Microstructures
January 24, 2011
mollusque commented on the word quasinote
Similarly, a multitude of sounds merge into a quasinote whose pitch is the approximate average of those of the many constituents.
--W. J. Humphreys, 1940, Physics of the Air, p. 447
January 24, 2011
mollusque commented on the word quasinode
Also, a quasinode (ie the point of minimum tidal range) may shift up river as a result of the increase in first-order linear friction; at the location where the quasinode was during low runoff conditions the tide range would then actually increase with increased river flow.
--Bruce B. Parker, 1991, Tidal Hydrodynamics, p. 257
January 24, 2011
mollusque commented on the word quasilove
Young and handsome Marc Porel and Pierre Zimmer would play quasilove interests for Jackie, although the understated relationship of the movie was really between her and an eleven-year-old boy, played by Jean-Francois Maurin.
--Frawley Becker, 2004, And the Stars Spoke Back: a Dialogue Coach Remembers Hollywood, p. 134
January 24, 2011
mollusque commented on the word quasijoke
While this phrase was once a quasijoke, it now forms fighting words when that unwanted land use is just over the horizon.
--Herbert Inhaber, 1998, Slaying the NIMBY Dragon, p. 103
January 24, 2011
mollusque commented on the word quasihome
Aydelotte foresees that the major portion of health care delivery will occur in ambulatory care; home and quasihome, occupational, child care centers; and school settings.
--Norma L. Chaska, 1983, The Nursing Profession: a Time to Speak, p. 808
January 24, 2011
mollusque commented on the user Dan337
Thanks, Dan. It looks like the only other instance your search found with two i's changing to a's is Mimi / mama, so the pattern is rarer than I thought. The only others I know of are ibis, iris, pipi, and titi.
January 24, 2011
mollusque commented on the user kschee1
Hi kschee1, you can ask Chelster for a pronunciation at The Request Line.
January 23, 2011
mollusque commented on the word quasidome
It is shown that there are six plunging anticlines, six basins, two plunging synclines and one quasidome.
--Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 54 (1930)
January 22, 2011
mollusque commented on the word quasicore
The first zone was supposed to be completely filled with two electrons and the remaining one electron was to occupy the second zone. The core and the electrons in the completely filled zone were assumed to form a quasicore.
--S. Prakash and S. K. Joshi, 1970, "Grüneisen parameter of aluminum", Physica 47(3)
January 22, 2011
mollusque commented on the user quasipoet
Can't help with flash, but love the euvocalic username. Welcome to Wordnik!
January 22, 2011
mollusque commented on the list classic-cat-names
See Possible Underscore's Flights of Feline Fancy.
January 22, 2011
mollusque commented on the word vid
The algebra might be linear, but the Century Dictionary definitions are not.
January 22, 2011
mollusque commented on the word limid
A file clam; a member of the bivalve family Limidae.
January 22, 2011
mollusque commented on the list words-made-of-roman-numerals
Are u's allowed, since they would have been written as v's in Latin? E.g., lixivium.
January 22, 2011
mollusque commented on the user Dan337
Hi Dan, I like your computation on Anadromes. Could you run one that looks for words that remain words if all the a's are changed to i's, e.g., asthma, isthmi; quacksalver, quicksilver. Thanks, Mollusque
January 22, 2011
mollusque commented on the list bird-wirds-nicknames
Yakamilk!
January 22, 2011
mollusque commented on the list more-than-one-z
Zambezi!
January 21, 2011
mollusque commented on the list my-sister-mispronouces
Does she pronounce "mispronounces" the way you spelled it?
January 21, 2011
mollusque commented on the word kaffir
Do you know who Zadie Smith is, Prac? Read the book to understand why she uses "kaffir" and other such terms.
January 21, 2011
mollusque commented on the list gums-and-resins
Hi ruzuzu, I was sticking with mononyms, so accroides is listed, arabic isn't as it doesn't stand alone as the name of a gum.
January 19, 2011
mollusque commented on the list interjections-spelled-with-only-hs-and-vowels
Yeah! Good question!
January 17, 2011
mollusque commented on the word calathumpian
Hi Grandpa, your grandpa meant callithumpian.
January 16, 2011
mollusque commented on the list words-that-can-be-typed-entirely-with-the-right-hand
Hi Silenturion, welcome to Wordnik! You can mine some words for this list from reesetee's The Sound of One Hand Typing and my Typewriter Words.
January 15, 2011
mollusque commented on the word animousness
In the meeting it was resolved that they would shift to primogeniture from ultimogeniture. but some parents, he said, favoured a middle son, and so on. There was no animousness in actual practice.
--H. Kamkhenthang, 1988, The Paite, a Transborder Tribe of India and Burma, p. 146
January 15, 2011
mollusque commented on the word saniousness
But what chiefly solicited my attention was, that all these appearances in malignant ulcers, their acrimony, the saniousness of the discharge, the corrosion, the spongy flesh, the callous granulations, &c. were always in proportion to the extent of the morbid circumjacent parts, and the extent itself, the product of habitual virulence.
--J. Vage, 1799, "Observations on inveterate ulcers", Medical and Physical Journal 2: 351
January 15, 2011
mollusque commented on the word cariousness
I would observe that the soundness of the teeth may be best secured, and, in consequence, much pain avoided, by cleaning them with a brush and cold water just before bed-time; and that, if the pain in the face should proceed from some other cause than that of cariousness in any tooth, I would dissuade patients from using those narcotic preparations so generally recommended and unfortunately adopted for tic-doloreux, and similar affections . . .
--Rev. Samuel Fenton, 1841, The Excellent Properties of Salted Brandy as a most Efficacious Medicine and Sedative, p. 23
January 15, 2011
mollusque commented on the word adipousness
. . . for strong meat-broth by itself would prove indigestible on account of its heavy and viscous adipousness, were it not neutralized by the addition of vegetable substances.
--Ange Denis Macquin, 1820, Tabella cibaria, p. 24
January 15, 2011
mollusque commented on the list ar--1
What's a pirate's favorite . . .?
January 13, 2011
mollusque commented on the list unruzuzu
Vuvuzela?
January 13, 2011
mollusque commented on the word Kerouacism
Placking is a Kerouacism meaning noisy walking. Jack thought that he had created hundreds of such words . . .
--Jeffrey H. Weinberg, 1986, Writers Outside the Margin, p. 54
January 13, 2011
mollusque commented on the list jewel-or-ailment
What a bezoar list! Might I suggest "stone"?
January 13, 2011
mollusque commented on the list the-request-line
Czech out the Herzog example under hrad.
January 12, 2011
mollusque commented on the list zillions-of--illions
Any room for Brazilians?
January 12, 2011
mollusque commented on the word centrosaurid
Einiosaurus or "bison lizard" is a medium-sized, short-frilled centrosaurid dinosaur.
--David West, 2010, Triceratops and Other Horned Herbivores, p. 14
January 11, 2011
mollusque commented on the list lesson-10--1
Is the lesson that monitor is misspelled?
January 9, 2011
mollusque commented on the word promotory
None of the sequences showed a gradual linear change from inhibitory to promotory responses . . . .
--New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research 25: 517 (1982)
January 7, 2011
mollusque commented on the word promotory
In scientific usage, it's an antonym of inhibitory.
January 7, 2011
mollusque commented on the user ruzuzu
Thanks, ruzuzu. I'd forgotten about that list.
January 4, 2011
mollusque commented on the list unruzuzu
Ruzunga?
January 3, 2011
mollusque commented on the list unruzuzu
Sununu?
January 3, 2011
mollusque commented on the word paraparadise
But really duck souper it had been for him because in the basement of the dorm was a marble & tile bathing pool, an underworld, romanesque oasis and paraparadise, to which he had unimpeded access and a purloined key.
--J. Lilly, 2002, The Last Carnival, p. 117
January 2, 2011
mollusque commented on the list correctly-spelled-words-that-look-like-a-misspellings-of-other-words
Great list idea, Dan!
January 1, 2011
mollusque commented on the user hernesheir
Thanks for the repetitious comment, hh!
December 31, 2010
mollusque commented on the word mentula
Not I. Nor Chained Bear.
December 30, 2010
mollusque commented on the user fbharjo
Oops, I thought I did. Probably forgot to hit the "go" button.
December 27, 2010
mollusque commented on the user hernesheir
What was number 30,000?
December 27, 2010
mollusque commented on the word opobalsam
Thanks, hernesheir!
December 27, 2010
mollusque commented on the word quintaphone
Not just any organ stop, a euvocalic organ stop! (The second known example after "courcellina".)
December 27, 2010
mollusque commented on the word gyromancer
In the dying days of the Soviet Union, when faith healers, fortune-tellers, tyromancers and pyromancers and gyromancers all became temporary norths for the wildly wavering needles of lost citizens' need to believe, Tiima's theory enjoyed a brief vogue in villages west of Tallinn.
--Jon Fasman, 2006, The Geographer's Library, p. 283
December 26, 2010
mollusque commented on the word semislunk
I was owed an apology as much as I owed one, I said to myself as I semislunk around to Hannah's entrance.
--Jon Fasman, 2006, The Geographer's Library, p. 218
December 26, 2010
mollusque commented on the word neohomeless
Jadid and Gomes bickered like an old married couple as they put on their coats and walked down the department steps. Gomes teased Joe about his clothes, calling his style "neohomeless"; Joe snatched the car keys out of Gome's hand and told me that he drove like he was always worried about giving himself a speeding ticket.
--Jon Fasman, 2006, The Geographer's Library, p. 213
December 26, 2010
mollusque commented on the word procellous
*has some clouds*
December 25, 2010
mollusque commented on the word semiparous
Error for semelparous.
December 24, 2010
mollusque commented on the user hernesheir
It just dawned on me what semiparous should have been.
December 24, 2010
mollusque commented on the word procellous
*wonders who this song is about*
December 24, 2010
mollusque commented on the word dreen
"Yes sir, along here gets to be a fairly good-size dreen," said Miss Ora. "Don't it, Brother? Panther Creek gets in a hurry sometimes to get to the old Bywy."
--Eudora Welty, 1970, Losing Battles
December 24, 2010
mollusque commented on the word rangatang
"I saw what you did, you old rangatang!" yelled Miss Beulah. "Not content with all you caused already, you try to make an end of us too!"
--Eudora Welty, 1970, Losing Battles
December 24, 2010
mollusque commented on the word pone
"All right, New Shoes! I'm fixing to smack you hard right across those pones of yours, where you need it most," she cried. "And for the rest of your punishment, you're to come straight home from school today and tell me something you've learned."
--Eudora Welty, 1970, Losing Battles
December 24, 2010
mollusque commented on the word canna
It was the little silver snuffbox that Captain Jordan in his lifetime had come by, that had been Granny's to keep for as long as anybody could remember, that rolled across the floor and down into the folds of the cannas.
--Eudora Welty, 1970, Losing Battles
December 24, 2010
mollusque commented on the word liquorite
"He was a liquorite, now that was his trouble," Miss Lexie replied. "He came. But in the end she dismissed him, and he went."
--Eudora Welty, 1970, Losing Battles
December 24, 2010
mollusque commented on the word bodock
Well, but there's bodocks and bodocks growing between here and the road," said Elvie. "They're lining our way. They couldn't all be Grandpa Vaughn's horse switches from when he came riding to see Granny and get her to marry 'im."
--Eudora Welty, 1970, Losing Battles
December 24, 2010
mollusque commented on the word broodering
"Poor little old fat Possum." he whispered. "I see now what you've been doing all this time without me. Thinking. Broodering.
--Eudora Welty, 1970, Losing Battles
December 24, 2010
mollusque commented on the word mosquitery
And in the most mosquitery little voice you ever heard in your life, with lots of pauses for breath, she testifies that no, she and Bonnie Dee were not twins, they just came real close together, and their mama used to play-like they were twins.
--Eudora Welty, 1953, The Ponder Heart
December 24, 2010
mollusque commented on the word mirate
That's how everybody—me and whoever was in here at the time, drummers, boarders, lawyers, and strangers—had to listen to Uncle Daniel mirate and gyrate over Bonnie Dee.
--Eudora Welty, 1953, The Ponder Heart
December 24, 2010
mollusque commented on the word fluzions
"No matter what anybody omits or commits in September, good people," he said, and kissed Aunt Tempe loudly, "it's because: it's hot as fluzions."
--Eudora Welty, 1946, Delta Weddings
December 24, 2010
mollusque commented on the word norate
People've been norating about you, sure!" said Troy, watching her speed. "Well, you're just in time."
--Eudora Welty, 1946, Delta Wedding
December 24, 2010
mollusque commented on the word thumbnail
There were unnoticeable places where the paint had run down those hard rods, that had never quite got dry, and when George went away on a case or was late coming home she would lie there indenting these little rivers of paint with her thumbnail very gently, to kill time, the way she would once hold rose petals on her tongue and gently bite them, waiting here in the store, the days when he courted.
--Eudora Welty, 1946, Delta Wedding
December 24, 2010
mollusque commented on the word gorgette
The lamps matched, being of turned mahogany, and there were two tall ones and two short ones, all with shades of mauve gorgette over rose China silk.
--Eudora Welty, 1946, Delta Wedding
December 24, 2010
mollusque commented on the word unselfishness
But where George was importunate, Dabney was almost greedy. Dabney was actually, at moments, almost selfish, and he was not. That is, she thought, frowning, George had not Dabney's kind of unselfishness which is a dread of selfishness, but the thoughtless kind, which is often cheated of even its flower like tender perennial that will disregard the winter earlier every year . . . .
--Eudora Welty, 1946, Delta Wedding
December 24, 2010
mollusque commented on the word bless out
Dabney makes Battle phone every day, the crook people and the cake people, and bless them out, but it doesn't do a bit of good.
--Eudora Welty, 1946, Delta Wedding
December 24, 2010
mollusque commented on the list florida-keys-list
How about a list of hypothetical keys: Chee Key, Mun Key ...
December 23, 2010
mollusque commented on the list helpful-hints-to-avoid-unit-confusion
debye and debby?
December 22, 2010
mollusque commented on the list florida-keys-list
I think this should be called the "Florida Key List", since it doesn't seem to be restricted to keys in the Florida Keys (which would be the "Florida Keys Key List"). By the way, there are two Sand Keys in Florida, only one of them in the Keys.
December 22, 2010
mollusque commented on the word antisurgeon
But animosity also ran high against 'those rascals the surgeons', sporadic antisurgeon riots being directed against their infamous and often illegal traffic in bodies for dissection.
--W. F. Bynum and Roy Porter, 2002, William Hunter and the Eighteenth-Century Medical World, p. 10
December 17, 2010
mollusque commented on the user hernesheir
I pledge allegious to the antisturgeon.
December 17, 2010
mollusque commented on the word antisturgeon
When a single series antisturgeon serum was tested with these two species, no reaction was recorded, even though with the homologous antigen the potency of the single series antiserum was much greater . . . .
--Zoologica: Scientific Contributions of the New York Zoological Society, 1942, p. 113
December 17, 2010
mollusque commented on the word unphagocytized
The presence of unphagocytized death cells caused by trauma, toxins, or parasites is a major cause of inflammation.
--Julien L. Van Lancker, 2006, Apoptosis, Genomic Integrity, and Cancer, p. 28
December 16, 2010
mollusque commented on the word unanonymize
It is assumed that the patients have given their consent to publically release unanonymized medical and genomic record.
--Zbigniew W. Ras and Li-Shiang Tsay, 2010, Advances in Intelligent Information Systems, p. 187
December 16, 2010
mollusque commented on the word unanonymize
They're looking for the 'anonymous tipster.' It's in all the newspapers and I'm getting nervous, so I call to unanonymize myself.
--Tom Mathews, 2005, Our Fathers' War - Page 147
December 16, 2010
mollusque commented on the word unabortively
This latter possibility would increase the range within which government participation in the taxation of gross profits could be undertaken unabortively.
--Guy C. Z. Mhone, 1982, The Political Economy of a Dual Labor Market in Africa, p. 228
December 16, 2010
mollusque commented on the word unabortive
Could we but look upon this curse aright,
Mercy would hinder sleep until the blight
Were wholly banished soon. O men of worth,
Why art thou mute ? Why art thou mute, O earth ?
The unabortive beast, the stones might rise,
Rebuking human inconsistencies.
--J. R. Ramsay, 1869, Win-on-ah: or The Forest Light, and Other Poems, p. 92
December 16, 2010
mollusque commented on the word subconstrained
Thus, we will ignore the second incentive-compatibility constraint and later check that it is indeed satisfied in the solution of the "subconstrained problem."
--Jean Tirole, 1994, The Theory of Industrial Organization, p. 153
December 16, 2010
mollusque commented on the user hernesheir
Oops, good catch on unponytailed.
December 16, 2010
mollusque commented on the word unponytailed
I pulled the New Girl along by the hand with me across that snag-footed ice plant field with the sun straight up above in a cloudless sky, the winds getting the New Girl's unponytailed hair . . . .
--Gordon Lish, 1988, The Quarterly 5-6, p. 55
December 16, 2010
mollusque commented on the word Eurodynamism
At a time when much is being written about 'Eurosclerosis,' it is important to be aware of the existence of 'Eurodynamism'.
--Morley Gunderson, Noah M. Meltz and Sylvia Ostry, 1987, Unemployment: International Perspectives, p. 57
December 16, 2010
mollusque commented on the user hernesheir
I think I'll wait for someone to remove the hyphen from Euro-dynastic. But thanks, it lead me to Eurodynamism.
December 16, 2010
mollusque commented on the user hernesheir
Chained-bear? She has 258 lists. I just noticed that bilby is a few hundred comments ahead of reesetee. Is he the first to reach 20,000 comments?
December 15, 2010
mollusque commented on the user hernesheir
Thanks for synrugoidate, hernesheir. A great word!
December 15, 2010
mollusque commented on the user hernesheir
Yup, he took the lead in words listed and words tagged sometime in the last month. I think reesetee is still the leading commenter.
December 15, 2010
mollusque commented on the user feedback
I'm repeating my plea from four months ago: please up the character limit on list descriptions. I can't add patterns to the description of Panvocalic euryvocalic because I maxed out at 20,000 characters.
December 15, 2010
mollusque commented on the list snowplows-and-dough-troughs
A few other near misses: output, compound wound, twenty-four hour.
December 12, 2010
mollusque commented on the list snowplows-and-dough-troughs
Okay. Feel free to delete tinging if it doesn't make the grade.
Edit: and fierier.
December 12, 2010
mollusque commented on the list snowplows-and-dough-troughs
These are tough to find. Presumably you don't want things like wrestles and dredged?
December 12, 2010
mollusque commented on the list gums-and-resins
Thanks, hernesheir, but these don't quite fit the list. Gaub seems to be the name of the fruit, not its gum, and pounce can be made of powdered gum, but isn't always.
December 12, 2010
mollusque commented on the word kindling
This pleasure either the young men copied from the older ones or the older ones always kept. The grown people, like the children, looked with kindling eyes at all turmoil, expecting delight for themselves and for you.
--Eudora Welty, 1946, Delta Wedding
December 11, 2010
mollusque commented on the word Scotch legs
They all had a fleetness about them, though they were tall, solid people with "Scotch legs" — a neatness that was actually a readiness for gaieties and departures, a distraction that was endearing as a lack of burdens.
--Eudora Welty, 1946, Delta Wedding
December 11, 2010
mollusque commented on the word joggling board
She dropped her suitcase in the grass and ran to the back yard and jumped up with two of the boys on the joggling board.
--Eudora Welty, 1946, Delta Wedding
December 11, 2010
mollusque commented on the word time's nick
Then he took his foot off the gangplank and came down and brought her home, not failing to take her by the priest's and marrying her on the way. And indeed it was in time's nick.
--Eudora Welty, 1942, The Robber Bridegroom
December 11, 2010
mollusque commented on the word scallopy
The small-boned ponies fed on the brown grass, and their teeth cut away with a scallopy sound.
--Eudora Welty, 1942, The Robber Bridegroom
December 11, 2010
mollusque commented on the word Texas tea
black gold
December 11, 2010
mollusque commented on the word Fauntleroyish
He was a pretty little man—almost girlishly pretty, with his fair hair and china-blue eyes—and he could not help being pleasantly aware that a lot of women were attracted by his Fauntleroyish good looks and cosy, insinuating ways.
--Hugh Clevely, 1955, Turning Point, p. 39
December 11, 2010
mollusque commented on the word fufluns
Pro, you've taken fufluns back into Wordnik through the Twitter sidedoor.
December 9, 2010
mollusque commented on the word convowel
We reached 2500 convowel patterns today.
December 5, 2010
mollusque commented on the list seven-syllable-english-words
Psst: irreversibility.
December 5, 2010
mollusque commented on the word ointment
Pterodactyl, you haven't listed freedom, so I can only conclude that you hate it too.
December 2, 2010
mollusque commented on the user hernesheir
It has. Any news on the panvovalic front? My best find recently was "reattributor", a more pleasing solution than the iffy "earthinductor" for "eaiuo". I think all 120 patterns now have an acceptable lower case English word associated.
December 2, 2010
mollusque commented on the word posseting
Does that make deposset an antonym of deposit?
December 2, 2010
mollusque commented on the word book-number
I worked a few hours a week in the library at the Museum of Comparative Zoology one semester.
December 1, 2010
mollusque commented on the list tandem-repeat
Thanks, hernesheir!
December 1, 2010
mollusque commented on the list adverbia
Begininning?
November 29, 2010
mollusque commented on the user feedback
The tag function is quirky. The first person to use the tag determines its capitalization pattern, but other than that, tags are not case-sensitive. The tags "ABC" and "abc" point to the same thing.
November 26, 2010
mollusque commented on the word fenugreek
I don't see how you can put "fenugreek" in the same class as "plinth", reesetee. With "plinth" the delight is the physical sensation of saying the word, whereas "fenugreek" can be savored silently.
November 17, 2010
mollusque commented on the list non-vital-organs
Or the pyrophone.
November 17, 2010
mollusque commented on the word deattributor
This upheaval was perhaps made more painful by the fact that the deattributors' arguments were essentially based on traditional art-historical principles with only occasional use of auxiliary technical and analytical methods of examination.
--Hubertus von Sonnenburg and Walter A. Liedtke, 1995, Rembrandt/not Rembrandt in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: aspects of connoisseurship, Vol. 1
November 10, 2010
mollusque commented on the word reattributor
Hamerton was one of the first art critics to rely on more than superficial evidence when making his attributions; in this he set the pattern for the great reattributors to come, such as Bernard Berenson.
--in Joel H. Wiener, 1985, Innovators and preachers: the role of the editor in Victorian England
November 10, 2010
mollusque commented on the word reattributor
Hofstede de Groot proudly accepted his role as the discoverer of unknown Rembrandts and reattributor of paintings given to other artists.
--Catherine B. Scallen, 2004, Rembrandt, reputation, and the practice of connoisseurship, p. 239
November 10, 2010
mollusque commented on the word convowel
It looks like I coined it, so I'll put it on my inflicted list.
November 8, 2010
mollusque commented on the word cvcvcccvcvcv
Tank Hughes' blog shows that the tagging had started by January 14, 2010.
November 8, 2010
mollusque commented on the word cvcvcccvcvcv
Responding to ruzuzu's question on my profile, we starting tagging convowel paterns nine or ten months ago, according to the comments I made on Tank Hughes profile.
November 8, 2010
mollusque commented on the user oroboros
Hi oroboros, you might find something useful in the works of Scott Kim. He's invented lots of ways of making letters read more than one way.
November 3, 2010
mollusque commented on the list famous-ship-names
How antic with Titantic!
October 22, 2010
mollusque commented on the list on-speaking-terms
If you spell "speech" "speach", shouldn't you spell "speak" "speek"?
October 21, 2010
mollusque commented on the word ragamuffinism
Ever since Dabney had announced that she would marry Troy, Shelley had been practicing, rather consciously, a kind of ragamuffinism. Or else she drew up, like an old maid.
--Eudora Welty, 1946, Delta Wedding
October 6, 2010
mollusque commented on the word Golden Cowrie
Callistocypraea aurantium.
October 3, 2010
mollusque commented on the list medical-terms-or-linguistic-terms
I always thing of Hahnemann Hospital in Philadelphia as being Homonym Hospital (for the terminologically ill).
October 2, 2010
mollusque commented on the word puž
But snail looks more sluggish than puž.
October 2, 2010
mollusque commented on the list homonyms-that-are-antonyms
The closest I can find is insightful versus inciteful, as in ------ comments.
September 27, 2010
mollusque commented on the list lost-for-word
Other than "non-virgin", is there a gender-neutral, non-derogatory word that is the opposite of "virgin" ?
September 26, 2010
mollusque commented on the word navcam
Usually optical navigation uses whatever scientific instruments are already on the spacecraft, but in 2005 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter carried a "navcam" which was designed and built for optical navigation.
--Michael E. Drews, Robert D. Culp, eds., Guidance and Control 2008, p. 343
September 23, 2010
mollusque commented on the list gums-and-resins
Thanks ruzuzu. I forgot to mention in the list description that I tagged the fossil resins.
September 23, 2010
mollusque commented on the word big lion shit
Uproarious!
September 22, 2010
mollusque commented on the word hopeful monster
Do hopeful monsters come from Gondwanabeland?
September 22, 2010
mollusque commented on the word wheelbar
A mobile minibar?
September 21, 2010
mollusque commented on the word genever
Variant spelling of jenever.
September 21, 2010
mollusque commented on the list kebabs
I added a few from the OED.
Say ruzuzu, think there's any Kaibab squirrels around here?
September 18, 2010
mollusque commented on the list out-to-sea
How about dghajsa?
September 18, 2010
mollusque commented on the word apheresis
A heretical suggestion: apheretically.
September 18, 2010
mollusque commented on the list lost-for-word
contrails?
September 17, 2010
mollusque commented on the word Fhyliss
Or the traditional spelling "Phyllis".
September 15, 2010
mollusque commented on the user ruzuzu
I think whichbe needs a summary comment.
September 9, 2010
mollusque commented on the user gangerh
Where zero is a rather large number.
September 5, 2010
mollusque commented on the word CSV
Mechanicsville.
September 5, 2010
mollusque commented on the word Throgmorton
Cat in the Chrestomanci series by Diana Wynne Jones.
September 5, 2010
mollusque commented on the user erinmckean
Dear Erin,
Could you spare John and Grant to work on Wordie for a while? They are spending all their time on another site called Wordnik, and the old Wordie spirit is slowly fading away. Two years ago, Wordie was rollicking along at up to 3000 comments a week. Wordnik limps along at one tenth that. Requests for routine fixes often take weeks to months to act on, and some functions/features that we had on Wordie still have not been implemented on Wordnik, making it harder for new users to get oriented and resulting in the loss of long-time stalwarts such as sionnach.
I think the emphasis on portal and other automated functions ignores much of the potential of the site. What about crowd-sourcing? Maybe you could get a grant to train selected users in lexicographic principles and allow them to create and edit definitions. If one percent of the 50,000 users defined one undefined word per day, almost 200,000 definitions would be added per year. Other aspects of the site could also benefit from concerted attention. For example, a slightly upgraded related word function could be the basis of an extraordinary navigable network of words.
Where do you see Wordnik going?
Thanks,
Mollusque
September 2, 2010
mollusque commented on the list laws-of-the-universe
Regarding zymurgy's law of evolving system dynamics and cans of worms: wouldn't a blender solve the problem?
September 2, 2010
mollusque commented on the list monosyllabic-words-i-can-t-find-rhymes-for
Also belk, spelk and yelk.
September 1, 2010
mollusque commented on the list verbal-advantage-list
Elster is Wornik's orthoepist (see the Blog, 12 July 2010), but he hasn't created his own lists yet.
August 26, 2010
mollusque commented on the user john
Hi John, any chance of getting the character limit on list descriptions raised to 40,000 or so? I can't keep up with hernesheir's euryvocalic discoveries otherwise.
August 26, 2010
mollusque commented on the user hernesheir
I think Leptotyphlops guayaquilensis ranks with syrup of ipecac among panvocalic discoveries made on Wordie/Wordnik!
August 26, 2010
mollusque commented on the user ruzuzu
Did you know that the Ruhuhu is a river in Tanzania?
August 26, 2010
mollusque commented on the user mollusque
Thanks, hernesheir! Did you notice that your comment was the 200,000th?
Edit: or maybe not. The meter is still on 200,000.
August 26, 2010
mollusque commented on the user RitaG
Thanks, RitaG. I'm glad to see you're a plinth fan too.
August 25, 2010
mollusque commented on the word Dolchivespula
Misspelling of Dolichovespula propagated on various websites.
August 25, 2010
mollusque commented on the word dentist
August 23, 2010
mollusque commented on the user feedback
I'm unable to update the list description for Panvocalic euryvocalic, though I can update descriptions for other lists. Am I running into a length limit again?
Edit: including html, it's up around 20,000 characters (and if I ever complete the euryvocalic circumnavigation, it will eventually hit at least 40,000).
August 21, 2010
mollusque commented on the list sweet-tooth-fairy
As we were driving this morning, my daughter said, "I like creative license plates". A moment later she said, "Hey doesn't that belong on a Wordie list?" Indeed!
August 21, 2010
mollusque commented on the word avournine
Variant of avourneen.
August 20, 2010
mollusque commented on the word cosmodog
In order to write and illustrate Laika, a story that had intrigued him since childhood, Abadzis spent years doing research on the Soviet space program, the Cosmodog program, and the people of the Soviet Union.
--Katie Monnin, 2010, Teaching Graphic Novels, p. 82
August 20, 2010
mollusque commented on the user hernesheir
Among the hesperiids, I could confirm only the Erynnis species as having occurred in print. The other three appear to be subspecies elevated to full species in online databases and portals, but I don't know if this is based on something published in a scientific journal, or is just an error in one database propogated to others. I've listed the names under Supervocalic in Waiting.
August 19, 2010
mollusque commented on the word tilamentous
OCR error for filamentous.
August 18, 2010
mollusque commented on the word preumonia
Typesetting error for pneumonia.
August 17, 2010
mollusque commented on the user hernesheir
Did you know that you can search for vowel patterns in Nomenclator Zoologicus? Here's the result of searching for *a*e*i*o*y*u* in advanced mode, with the box for "exact match" checked.
Edit: and 5-vowel tags for pseudonail and pseudotrain.
August 17, 2010
mollusque commented on the user hernesheir
Thanks again! I've picked up some other euryvocalic patterns in the last few days by comparing the words that you've tagged with 5-vowel patterns to the ones I've tagged.
Check your 6-vowel tag for Cypa incongruens and order tag for Ambulyx philomen.
August 17, 2010
mollusque commented on the word pseudopblastic
Typographical error for pseudoplastic.
August 17, 2010
mollusque commented on the word pleurothallic
Appears to be an typographical or OCR error for Pleurothallis.
August 17, 2010
mollusque commented on the word pseudopanic
The final aim of Jameson's project is to offer a theory of the fractured nature of postmodern or technological subject in terms of an equally disfigured and dehumanized multinational capitalism. For this reason "older theories of the sublime" are dragged out in an act of pseudopanic to explain the subject "blissed out before feats of postmodern commodification".
--Vijay Mishra, 1994, The Gothic Sublime, p. 26
August 17, 2010
mollusque commented on the word wrong number
Oops, sorry.
August 16, 2010
mollusque commented on the list o-ho
Thanks ruzuzu and hernesheir!
August 16, 2010
mollusque commented on the list o-ho
Thanks, ruzuzu! It's been a long time since anything has turned up for this list.
August 15, 2010
mollusque commented on the word nominal number
A nominal number (sometimes called a categorical number) is a number you use for identification only. It doesn't matter what the value of the number is.
--Barry Schoenborn and Bradley Simkins, 2010, Technical Math For Dummies, p. 39
August 15, 2010
mollusque commented on the list killjoy-et-al
The best I've found in the noun-verb category is pistolwhip. Some others are punchy too: sandblast, chainsmoke, gatecrash, slamdance.
August 15, 2010
mollusque commented on the list killjoy-et-al
This is a great list, madmouth. Lots of words look like they fit but don't: feedback, blowhole. How about list for noun-verb compounds where the result is a verb: windowshop, breastfeed, skydive?
August 14, 2010
mollusque commented on the word polyuremia
Given the meaning of "uremia" (a form of blood poisoning), "polyuremia" should not be a synonymy of "polyuria" (excessive urination). Uremia is much more likely to result from too little urination than too much. It's not clear that anyone has used it in the sense of "multiple forms of uremia in one individual", which is what it would be expected to mean.
This usage in Ullmann's Encyclopedia of industrial chemistry 24: 258 (1988) might be correct: "Premature coronary and/or circulatory arrest and/or a kidney malfunction which results in anuria and uremia are possible. Eventual transition to polyuremia can occur. Death occurs in the coma or through kidney failure."
But I wouldn't expect the word to be used in a chemical encyclopedia, unless it already existed in the medical literature. The couple of occurrences I've found there look like errors for "polyuria". For example in the abstract of this article in PubMed, "polyuria" and "polyuremia" seem to be used interchangeably.
August 13, 2010
mollusque commented on the user hernesheir
Thanks for the gracious message, hernesheir, and for the euryvocalic suggestions. Polyuremia is a tough call. I'll comment further there.
August 13, 2010
mollusque commented on the user hernesheir
Sorry, hernesheir, I don't agree. In the first example you posted, "cinaceous" is demonstrably a misspelling of "vinaceous", since the quotation was copied from an earlier source. The second quotation comes from a source that uses "vinaceous" 26 times and "cinaceous" only one. Since "c" is next to"v" on the keyboard, the simplest explanation is that it is a typo for "vinaceous".
The English color words from Latin cinis, cineris follow the usual pattern of being derived from the genitive form, not the nominative: cinereal, cinerous and cineritious.
August 12, 2010
mollusque commented on the word wrongest
The wrongest step of all is to be so eaten up with your own calamity as to be led into crime. The temple of your body is sacred; it was not yours to give, it is not yours to destroy.
--Oliver Lodge, 1921, "The Ethics of Suicide", The Fortnightly 110: 597
August 11, 2010
mollusque commented on the word estivation
*Rubs eyes*
August 11, 2010
mollusque commented on the user hernesheir
Thanks for the trove of new finds, hernesheir! I've added an acknowledgement of your help on the euryvocalic list. I couldn't confirm two of the names' appearing in print (Copestylum kahli and Hybomitra vulpes), possibly because they are subsequent combinations that have occurred only in databases so far.
I hit 49 languages on the polyglot list yesterday, making 50 (including English) in which panvocalics are known.
August 10, 2010
mollusque commented on the word harumphrodite
The draperies were what Kipling calls 'harumphrodite' and the features a smear, which is as it should be in inspirational paintings.
--Dion Fortune, 2003, The Sea Priestess, p. 83
August 10, 2010
mollusque commented on the word babebibobu
The substance of it abecedarium'>the abecedarium seldom varied. First came a cross, a charm "against the devil that may be in the letters"—hence the term "Christ-cross" or "criss-cross" row; next two alphabets, one of small letters and one of capitals; then three rows of syllables, those mystic incantations that sounded in every American schoolroom down to very recent times—"abebib" and "babebibobu"; and last, "In the Name of the Father" and the Lord's Prayer. And there the child's education usually ended.
--Morris S. Bishop, 1915, Catholic Educational Review 10: 23
August 9, 2010
mollusque commented on the user Prolagus
Thanks for the panvocalic guidance, Pro.
August 9, 2010
mollusque commented on the word hemendex
Slovak for "ham and eggs".
August 8, 2010
mollusque commented on the user Prolagus
Wow! Thanks for the page images, Prolagus (now capitalized I see). Looking through the Italian panvocalics, I find that we've listed about a third of them already. Could you advise about the acceptability of the following?
"babebibobu": word or sound effect?
"assessorucci": appears on some websites, but not in Google Books (except in the book in question).
"apicolture": misspelling of "apicoltore"?
"caposervitù": appears only in lists of Italian panvocalics
"avvolgiture": should this be "avvolgitore"?
"arreionu" and "arresignolu": proper Sardinian?
"centomilaun": madeupical?
"uranometri": madeupical?
Thanks, M.
August 8, 2010
mollusque commented on the user bilby
Hi bilby, I seem to have found an Indonesian panvocalic, in Museum dan Anak-anak. Do you think "museografi" qualifies as naturalized in Indonesian?
August 8, 2010
mollusque commented on the user feedback
John, more testing shows that "move" still does not work if the word to be moved has a space, diacritic mark, or other special character.
August 8, 2010
mollusque commented on the word Chrysotus edwadsi
I'm not sure what you mean. As far as I know, there is only one original genus in which edwardsi Van Duzee, 1930 was introduced, and whether the genus is paraphyletic is not relevant to the spelling of the specific name. Also, the nomenclatural rules do not require "authority"; they can be applied by anyone who has an interest. In this case the rule is Article 32.2 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature: "The original spelling of a name is the 'correct original spelling', unless it is demonstrably incorrect as provided in Article 32.5." There is no doubt that Chrysotus edwardsi is the correct spelling.
August 8, 2010
mollusque commented on the word Chrysotus edwadsi
You surmise correctly, the original spelling is "edwardsi". Why didn't you list that spelling?
August 8, 2010
mollusque commented on the word candytuft
He told me about the chamomiles, the hellebores, the petunias, the sweet williams, the wild pinks, the anemones, the sedums, the candytufts, the peonies, the Syrian opals, the daturas, the flowers that live for only a season, the ones that come back year after year, and the ones that beam from dawn to dusk, displaying their delicate corollas of rosy or mauve convolvulus, only to close abruptly at nightfall, as if a wrathful hand had squeezed their velvet petals and choked them.
--Philippe Claudel, 2007, By a Slow River, p. 111
August 6, 2010
mollusque commented on the word suint
I undressed and laid my outer clothes near the fire as well. They produced the scorched odors of woods and suint that mixed with those of the priest.
--Philippe Claudel, 2007, By a Slow River, p. 110
August 6, 2010
mollusque commented on the word snail
He looked at me, smiling, now as ever since our talk with that priestly gaze designed to reach in and pull out our souls like a cooked snail from its shell.
--Philippe Claudel, 2007, By a Slow River, p. 112
August 6, 2010
mollusque commented on the word Bonnipeau
And old Mrs. Marchoprat, that gossip, immediately closed her door, pulled the iron grate shut, and ran to report to her dear friend Mélanie Bonnipeau, a pious bonneted biddy who spent most of her time scanning the street from her low window . . . .
--Philippe Claudel, 2007, By a Slow River, p. 34
August 6, 2010
mollusque commented on the word eutonia
The individual who is balanced in mind and body is in a state of eutonia, which no environmental irritation can disturb for any length of time.
--Peter Dosch and Mathias Dosch, 2007Manual of Neural Therapy According to Huneke, p. 212
August 6, 2010
mollusque commented on the word number
Try dodman.
August 5, 2010
mollusque commented on the user Prolagus
Thanks for the Icelandic panvocalic!
August 3, 2010
mollusque commented on the user mollusque
Thanks, John. It's working now, except when the word has diacritic marks or other special characters.
August 2, 2010
mollusque commented on the user feedback
Thanks for the fixes, john and tonytam.
Any progress on the "move" function?
Another bug to report: I couldn't delete my "auieo" tag on mandt's guillemot when I changed my listing to Mandt's Guillemot. I changed a bunch in similar fashion (lowercase to uppercase), but that was the only one I couldn't delete. When I click on the "x", all it does is add "#" to the URL.
August 2, 2010
mollusque commented on the word Wateree River
Is there a list for homophonic place names?
August 1, 2010
mollusque commented on the user feedback
The "Wordnik is" statistics at the top of the Zeitgeist page are incorrect. Also, the "move' function to transfer a word from one to another is not working.
Any ideas on the subscript/superscript problem?
July 31, 2010
mollusque commented on the word I hate you
Umbrage, bilbyo?
July 31, 2010
mollusque commented on the word balti house
Balti and tandoori dishes at Amsterdam's only balti house come in big portions, which are mildly seasoned to suit the average Dutch palate.
--Time Out Amsterdam, 2005, p. 141
July 31, 2010
mollusque commented on the word scabiousness
An interesting kind of dictionary word: its first occurrence seems to be in a French-English dictionary from 1836, as a translation of "âpreté. "Scabiousness" is properly formed in English, but seems not to be used, perhaps because "scabbiness" is used instead.
July 31, 2010
mollusque commented on the word tannigerous
The hairs covering the leaves consist of a simple row of cells, and show a curious disposition of the tannin; as a rule, the alternate cells are tannigerous, the intervening ones have chlorophyll and are without tannin; the proximal cell of the hair may have tannin, or be a chlorophyll-cell.
--Spencer Le M. Moore, 1891, The Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 27: 529
July 31, 2010
mollusque commented on the word amyligerous
. . . in Cynomorium coccineum the ovule is destitute of a micropyle, tho pollen-tube finding its way to the embryo-sac through a vacuolated and amyligerous cone of tissue in the micropylar region of the ovule.
--Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society 1900(1): 691
July 31, 2010
mollusque commented on the word aphernousli
Can anyone offer an etymology for this word?
July 31, 2010
mollusque commented on the word aphernousli
The aphernousli, or arkennousli of Switzerland, Trent, Carniola, & c. might probably thrive to great advantage in our bleak, barren, rocky, mountainous tracts of land . . . .
--Walter Harte, 1764, Essays on Husbandry, p. 102
July 31, 2010
mollusque commented on the word aphernousli
We agree with Mr. Whitley in deeming the Pinus Cembra, or aphernousli as it is called (we know not the meaning), a tree of great beauty . . . .
--The Gardener's Magazine 9(45): 475 (1833)
July 31, 2010
mollusque commented on the user feedback
What happened to the Blog link at the top of the Zeitgeist page?
July 30, 2010
mollusque commented on the word pseudomantid
The citation being "true" on its face is equivalent to the poor taxonomy option. That would mean that "pseudomantid" was a term used by orthopterists, and the writer of the Collier's article thought that "pseudomantids" were raphidopterans. In support of this interpretation, an Encyclopedia Americana article from 1951 say Raphidiodea have "the appearance of mantids". However, an entomologist would not normally use the word pseudomantid unless there were a family Pseudomantidae. There is no such family (only the tribe Pseudomantini), and there is no evidence that members of the genus Pseudomantis are called pseudomantids. On the other hand, I have not been able to find a raphidopteran genus beginning with "pseudo-", so there is no obvious word for "pseudomantid" to be an error for.
July 30, 2010
mollusque commented on the word pseudomantid
The quotation is about Raphidiodea, which is now known as Raphidioptera, whereas Pseudomantis is part of Orthoptera. These are different orders of insects, so it is not true that raphidiodeans are sometimes called "pseudomantids". It's not clear what the error was: a malaprop, a misspelling, or poor taxonomy.
July 30, 2010
mollusque commented on the word hypogeusial
Doesn't seem to have appeared in print yet; in online occurrences the "l" is an OCR error for " ' " or "/".
July 29, 2010
mollusque commented on the word bibaceous
Variant of "bibacious".
July 29, 2010
mollusque commented on the word libaceous
Transcription error for "sebaceous" or "liliaceous" depending on the context (sebaceous cyst or tumour; liliaceous plant or tribe).
July 29, 2010
mollusque commented on the word ceracious
Variant spelling of "ceraceous"; in some contexts an OCR error for "veracious".
July 29, 2010
mollusque commented on the word fenacious
OCR error for "tenacious".
July 29, 2010
mollusque commented on the word moluscous
Misspelling of molluscous.
July 29, 2010
mollusque commented on the word menacious
Menacing; variant spelling of minacious.
July 29, 2010
mollusque commented on the user feedback
Subscript and superscript html codes don't work in Wordnik.
July 29, 2010
mollusque commented on the word pseudorapid
Incubation of the enzyme with an excess of the strong reduc- tant dithionite (40 electrons/mol enzyme) resulted in two new Mov EPR signals (pseudorapid split and unsplit Mov signals).
--Astrid Sigel and Helmut Sigel, 2002, Molybdenum and Tungsten: Their Roles in Biological Processes, p. 389
July 29, 2010
mollusque commented on the word pseudomantid
Any citations?
July 29, 2010
mollusque commented on the word pseudolastic
Typographical error for "pseudoelastic"; most works in which "pseudolastic" appears also use "pseudoelastic".
July 29, 2010
mollusque commented on the word pseudocratic
Democracy isn't always democratic. Sometimes it's aristocratic, sometimes it's plutocratic, even pseudocratic sometimes.
--Kevin J. Wetmore, 2003, Black Dionysus: Greek Tragedy and African American Theatre, p. 190
July 29, 2010
mollusque commented on the user hernesheir
Actually, I didn't start the convowel tagging, Bri did.
July 29, 2010
mollusque commented on the word pseudophatic
Misspelling of pseudophakic in ophthalmological contexts. "Pseudo-phatic" appears correct in other context, but a citation without a hyphen hasn't been found (yet).
July 29, 2010
mollusque commented on the word pseudobranchid
OCR error for pseudobranchial.
July 29, 2010
mollusque commented on the word neuroganic
Misspelling of neurogenic, usually in the context of the neurogenic theory of the heart beat.
July 29, 2010
mollusque commented on the word antihouse
The three-story mute concrete surfaces left behind are an antihouse, a public presentation of the interior living space that at the same time asserts and denies domesticity.
Landscape architecture 86: 81 (1996)
July 29, 2010
mollusque commented on the word antimouse
The plate is further incubated with alkaline phosphatase-conjugated antimouse immunoglobulin and color is developed.
--Patrick C. Roche, 1996, G proteins, p. 195
July 29, 2010
mollusque commented on the word pneumoniac
Elderly pneumoniacs have lower survival rates, particularly those with other medical problems.
--James McManus, 2006, Physical: an American Checkup, p. 227
July 29, 2010
mollusque commented on the word pleurodian
Misspelling of pleurodiran in some scientific papers on turtles.
July 29, 2010
mollusque commented on the user hernesheir
Thanks for the birdwirds, hernesheir! I will eventually root them out of your lists, so don't feel obligated, but I do appreciate the updates of your finds, particularly the new euryvocalic patterns. Is there a particular kind you want me to flag for you?
Belated congratulations on pushing past 2000 convowel patterns. Quite a jump from 25 days ago!
July 29, 2010
mollusque commented on the word cedulation
All cedulas are approved by a multi-party committee, one of several steps in the cedulation process where the political parties will be allowed to vet voter registration lists.
--John Clements, 1996, Clements' International Report, p. 72
July 28, 2010
mollusque commented on the word Iceland
Great! Wordnik has three panvocalic Icelandic phrases, but no single words yet: "hundrað og einn", "hundrað og tveir", and "ef svo býður við að".
July 28, 2010
mollusque commented on the word quotential
Define the multivariate quotential derivative recursively starting with the rightmost ones . . . .
--Michael Trott, 2006, The Mathematica Guidebook for Symbolics, p. 332
July 28, 2010
mollusque commented on the word maduromycetic
The first is caused by aerobic actinomyces and the second the maduromycetic group.
--Annual Review of Biochemical and Allied Research in India, 25: 85 (1954)
July 28, 2010
mollusque commented on the word uniflavored
When knower and knowable are fused into a uniflavored essence, that in truth is the immaculate Wisdom.
--José Pereira, 1976, Hindu Rheology: a Reader, p. 382
July 28, 2010
mollusque commented on the word Giant Cow
There must be mass outbreaks of bovilexia there!
July 27, 2010
mollusque commented on the word tongue-bang
See tonguebanging.
July 27, 2010
mollusque commented on the user frogapplause
Does it have matching shelltub?
July 27, 2010
mollusque commented on the word chestnut
Not chestnut budcreep! Where will phenology lead us next?
July 26, 2010
mollusque commented on the user yarb
Thanks, yarb! I'd never have predicted "bungaloidest"!
July 26, 2010
mollusque commented on the word arenious
Misspelling of arsenious.
July 26, 2010
mollusque commented on the word accretious
Many intellectuals are motivated by different desires—not the accretious ones of having ready access to fashion, beer, autos, and appliances, but the longing for an infinitely deferred utopia . . . .
--Timothy Brennan, 1997, At Home in the World: Cosmopolitanism Now, p. 216
July 26, 2010
mollusque commented on the word vasculometric
. . . vasculometric analysis evinced that the RT-induced
pathophysiology is revealed at the level of the cranial microcirculation.
--Sophie Desmons et al., 2009, Calcified Tissue International 84(5)
July 26, 2010
mollusque commented on the word roughhaired
These roughhaired guinea pigs are sometimes called "tufted" or"rosetted," because their hair grows in a pattern of rosettes.
--Helen Piers and Matthew M. Vriends, 1993, Taking Care of your Guinea Pigs, p. 6
July 26, 2010
mollusque commented on the word mandibulometry
An analysis of measurement errors in mandibulometry with special reference to their influence on the results of inter-population relationship analysis.
--K. Koizumi and M. J. Kouchi, 1988, Journal of the Anthropological Society of Tokyo 96: 339.
July 25, 2010
mollusque commented on the user feedback
When Wordnik has no definition for a word, it brings up comments instead, with a link to "older comments" if there are more than two. But the link brings up younger comments, not older (see galenious). It probably is best to display the oldest first, since that's the one most likely to be an example.
July 25, 2010
mollusque commented on the user feedback
True, I don't.
July 25, 2010
mollusque commented on the user Prolagus
I just found that Enciclopedia dei giochi, by Giampaolo Dossena (1999), has a list of Italian panvocalics. Unfortunately, only a snippet view is available. Have you heard of this book?
July 25, 2010
mollusque commented on the word arteriolus
This arteriolus anastomosed into a precapillary with wider lumen without muscles in the wall, and ramified into alveolar capillaries in the lung-tissue surrounding the bronchus . . . .
--Acta anatomica 7: 21 (1949)
July 25, 2010
mollusque commented on the word equirostral
Neither of the supposed Producti appears to belong to that genus; one of them is certainly an equirostral Spirifer . . . .
--E. Forbes, 1847, Journal of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland 3: 262
July 25, 2010
mollusque commented on the word quarterwindow
He waved them away, his wheeling skull pressed for coolness against the glass of the quarterwindow.
--Cormac McCarthy, 1992, Suttree, p. 76
July 25, 2010
mollusque commented on the word quarterpoint
Placement of the side nodes at the midpoint rather than the quarterpoint was adopted to reduce the spurious unloading and to allow larger load increments.
--Gerald W. Wellman et al, 1988, Fracture Mechanics: Eighteenth Symposium, p. 545
July 25, 2010
mollusque commented on the word qualophile
I have found that many scientists who think they are newfound friends of qualia turn out to use the term in ways no self- respecting qualophile philosopher would countenance.
--Daniel Clement Dennett, 2005, Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness, p. 87
July 25, 2010
mollusque commented on the word qualiphobe
If you are a qualiphobe, this book will not convince you of the legitimacy of qualitative methods.
--Richard E. Boyatzis, 1998, Transforming Qualitative Information: Thematic Analysis and Code Development, p. viii
July 25, 2010
mollusque commented on the word quantiphobe
There is a purity to this kind of Super Crunching that is hard for even quantiphobes to ignore.
--Ian Ayres, 2008, Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart, p. 86
July 25, 2010
mollusque commented on the word quantophile
Don't depend on mindless rankings devised by quantophiles who don't know econometrics and don't believe in judgment . . . .
--Deirdre N. McCloskey, 2003, Eastern Economic Journal 29(2)
July 25, 2010
mollusque commented on the word galenious
I thought you'd like it, hernesheir. The preferred spelling is probably "galenous", but that has fewer than ten hits in Google Books (excluding Galenous = Galen), so I figured "galenious" was a legitimate variant. Finding a previously overlooked aeiou word is particularly satisfying.
July 25, 2010
mollusque commented on the word galenious
At the upper extremity, looking directly toward the perpendicular face of the mountain that rises up to the hight of three thousand feet, you see, plainly marked, a stratum of galenious rock in the form of a perfect horseshoe.
--Harry T. Gause, 1871, Journal of a Summer Trip to Colorado and the Rocky Mountains, p. 102
July 25, 2010
mollusque commented on the word chiroptivorous
The large chiroptivorous bull-dog bat (Phyllostomus hastatus) is much larger and more fearsome-appearing than the vampires, but it is not dangerous to man or to most other animals except small bats.
--Julian Haynes Steward, 1950, Handbook of South American Indians, p. 365
July 25, 2010
mollusque commented on the word chiropterophagy
See chiroptivorous.
July 25, 2010
mollusque commented on the list mycological-hues
Yes--I plundered a few for Color adjectives.
July 24, 2010
mollusque commented on the user feedback
Thanks, John. Tags are working as hoped. I can be restrictive in my tags, and hernesheir can be permissive. To me, this is the stuff of lexicography. I consider "temarious" to be a misspelling of "temerarious", so I don't tag it with "eaiou", but hernesheir might want to. Who's to say it won't someday overtake "temerarious" as the preferred spelling? Wordnik allows variants and misspellings to be cross-referenced and discussed, so those who encounter them can reach their own decisions.
July 23, 2010
mollusque commented on the word Thysanichthys
Pounce!
July 23, 2010
mollusque commented on the list triads
Thanks, Deborah. I put them on Triads 2, since the sound is what's important with that cheer.
July 23, 2010
mollusque commented on the word volute
Oh yes, human life is very tolerable on the top of an omnibus in Holborn, when the policeman holds up his arm and the sun beats on your back, and if there is such a thing as a shell secreted by man to fit man himself here we find it, on the banks of the Thames, where the great streets join and St Paul's Cathedral, like the volute on the top of the snail shell, finishes it off.
--Virginia Woolf, 1922, Jacob's Room
July 23, 2010
mollusque commented on the word rhinolalia
Rhinolalia is altered speech caused by abnormal airflow through the nose during phonation. It may an organic or functional cause. While it is technically correct to distinguish between altered voice sounds (rhinophonia) and altered sound production (rhinolalia), both terms are often used interchangeably. Several types of rhinolalia are distinguished based on the voice sound . . . .
--Rudolf Probst, Gerhard Grevers and Heinrich Iro, 2006, Basic Otorhinolaryngology: a Step-by-step Learning Guide, 401
July 23, 2010
mollusque commented on the user oroboros
Hyperacoustic musicotherapy counteractingly psychostimulates milquetoasty subpersonality.
July 23, 2010
mollusque commented on the user oroboros
Thanks for the Eckler sentence, oroboros. I wonder if it's possible to construct a six word sentence with euryvocalics. I nominate psychostimulate as the verb.
Can I pitch pitch for your Autantonyms lists?
July 22, 2010
mollusque commented on the word pseudomain
This LLTM analysis using main effects and pseudomain effects showed a conditional likelihood . . .
--Mark Wilson and George Engelhard, 1996, Objective Measurement: Theory into Practice, p. 379
July 22, 2010
mollusque commented on the word neuromanic
Any examples that are clearly not misspellings of neuromantic?
July 22, 2010
mollusque commented on the word pseudopian
Possibly an error for pseudopodian.
July 22, 2010
mollusque commented on the word pleuroviscal
It's a misspelling of pleurovisceral.
July 22, 2010
mollusque commented on the word malocclusional
Hernesheir, both my comments were jokes. Surely the panvocalic form is preferable.
July 22, 2010
mollusque commented on the word pseudoaphid
Seems to be hyphenated in the original.
July 22, 2010
mollusque commented on the word malocclusional
Don't you prefer malocclusive?
July 22, 2010
mollusque commented on the word malocclusional
Don't you mean malocclusive?
July 22, 2010
mollusque commented on the user hernesheir
I think "ceratious" and "ceratiously" are OCR errors for vexatious and vexatiously.
July 20, 2010
mollusque commented on the word driftfish
How are things out there in leftfield, bilby?
July 20, 2010
mollusque commented on the user feedback
My request (from six months ago) to restore the Wordie ability to be able to link to one's own tags is getting urgent. Hernesheir and I are both tagging vowel patterns for panvocalics, but we have different criteria for what should be listed, and in some cases what should be tagged. I'd like to be able to link to my own tags. Is it possible to change from relative links like
http://www.wordnik.com/tags/aeiou?yours=
to absolute links like
http://www.wordnik.com/tags/aeiou?u=mollusque
The latter worked on Wordie, but on Wordnik it gives the same result as the "Everyone's" link.
July 20, 2010
mollusque commented on the user hernesheir
Are you explicitly collecting euvocalic misspellings and misprints? If so, maybe you should have a separate list for them.
July 20, 2010
mollusque commented on the word rinaceous
Transcription error for vinaceous, corrected in a subsequent edition:
"Similar to C. fasciata, but with the tail-band wanting or only faintly indicated, the general coloration lighter and more uniform, the vinaceous tints, especially, being more or less replaced by bluish-ash.
--Elliott Coues, 1903, Key to North American Birds, p. 710
July 19, 2010
mollusque commented on the word divaceous
Transcription error for olivaceous.
July 19, 2010
mollusque commented on the word cinaceous
Typographical error for vinaceous, copied from:
. . . lower border of flanks dull vinaceous buff, sometimes varying to pale cream buff with a slight vinaceous tinge; . . .
--E. W. Nelson, 1909, North American Fauna 29: 138
July 19, 2010
mollusque commented on the word vidaceous
Misspelling of violaceous.
July 19, 2010
mollusque commented on the word arachibutyric
As in arachibutyrophobia.
July 19, 2010
mollusque commented on the word vilaceous
Still a misspelling.
July 19, 2010
mollusque commented on the word vilaceous
Misspelling of violaceous.
July 19, 2010
mollusque commented on the word cilaceous
This is an error for "liliaceous" by Turner in translating Marcel de Serres (1829: 22), "que l'on peut rapprocher des palmiers et des liliacées arborescentes".
July 19, 2010
mollusque commented on the word pilaceous
They're usually called pilosebaceous follicles, but pilaceous seems properly formed from pilus.
July 19, 2010
mollusque commented on the word tilaceous
Isn't this a misspelling of tiliaceous?
July 19, 2010
mollusque commented on the word sitaceous
This looks like the original has a misspelling of setaceous.
July 19, 2010
mollusque commented on the word preacoustic
This latent period is described as the phase of preacoustic perception and is a physiologic condition of hearing.
--Archives of Otolaryngology 35: 439 (1942)
July 19, 2010
mollusque commented on the word apervious
Any citations for apervious? It shows up in Google Books and Google Scholar, but always seems to be an OCR error, or to mean Pervious Area (A subscript pervious) (the html sub tag isn't working).
July 19, 2010
mollusque commented on the word guitarones
MARIACHIS - strolling musicians dressed in traditional Spanish costumes who play traditional Mexican music, usually on guitars, guitarones (big bass guitars), violins, and sometimes trumpets.
--Michelle Motoyoshi, 1999, Mexicans in California, p. 58
July 19, 2010
mollusque commented on the user hernesheir
Thanks for the updates! I think both wyes should be tagged for Xyrichtys melanopus. Since it's not euryvocalic, I don't count it as having one of the 720 arrangements of the six vowels.
July 19, 2010
mollusque commented on the word ventricolumnar
He assumed that this neuronal control mechanism is provided by a closed circuit (gamma ring) comprising ventricolumnar cells, peripheral motor nerve, muscle, receptors, efferent sensory nerve, and again ventricolumnar cells.
--Yoshiharu Akishige, 1977, Psychological Studies on Zen 2: 133
July 18, 2010
mollusque commented on the word ventricolumna
This word seems to have been first introduced in dictionaries. It's in MW3 and goes back to at least 1916 (The American Illustrated Medical Dictionary, 8th ed., p. 1017), but it seems not to have escaped until recently.
July 18, 2010
mollusque commented on the word ventricolumna
In the present study, rat dorsal root ganglion sensory neurons and ventricolumna motoneurons following isolated culture in vitro were used to investigate synergistic effects of NGF, CNTF and GDNF on survival and growth of neurons.
--J. Chen, et al., 2010, Advances in Medical Sciences 55: 32
July 18, 2010
mollusque commented on the user hernesheir
You seem to have developed the knack as well! Before I noticed your comment on my profile I'd already pulled creatinous, aneuronic, pyrometallurgist (I had pyrometallurgic], physioneural, and polymetallurgic (a new euryvocalic pattern) off the Zeitgeist page .
I passed on taurodine (as explained there), and used the capitalized form of pleuronian (and Pleuronia as well).
July 18, 2010
mollusque commented on the word taurodine
Smells like a misspelling, but of what, I don't know. Maybe taurosine, but that's extremely rare too, and at least in some contexts may be a misspelling of tyrosine or taurine.
That's the problem in the outer stratosphere of the search for panvocalics. Rare words can be hard to distinguish from errors (see wasteliquor for an example).
July 18, 2010
mollusque commented on the word ochreaceous
I wasn't aware of the term ochrea. The normal adjective for it seems to be ochreate, but I can see that ochreaceous is used as well.
July 18, 2010
mollusque commented on the word stauroline
Why not? Zircon, epidote, staurolite and sphene are common minerals that are often discussed in the same paper (example), and stauroline occurs in a paper in a journal where English is not a primary language.
July 18, 2010
mollusque commented on the word prevenche
Should this be pervenche?
July 18, 2010
mollusque commented on the word ochreaceous
Misspelling of ochraceous.
July 18, 2010
mollusque commented on the word stauroline
Isn't this just a misspelling of staurolite?
July 18, 2010
mollusque commented on the word footnote
Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow tentacular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.
--Nicholson Baker, 1988, The Mezzanine, p. 123, footnote
July 17, 2010
mollusque commented on the word propulsative
As the business becomes more complex the tiny wires must be constantly watched. Every wire must have back of it the propulsative power and knowledge of a human mind.
--Joe Mitchell Chapple, National Magazine 29: 461
July 17, 2010
mollusque commented on the word propugnative
But for all our propugnative activities there were moments of stress and pressure so that I lost my hat, suffered a torn coat and received a blow that made blood flow from my cheek, at which honorable sign of combat I knew pride and mental serenity.
--Charles J. Finger, 1930, Seven horizons, p. 157
July 17, 2010
mollusque commented on the word promulgative
Legislatures and official agencies take steps to convey the law they adopt to addressees via one or more of a variety of promulgative devices.
--Robert S. Summers, 2006, Form and Function in a Legal System: a General Study, p. 378
July 17, 2010
mollusque commented on the word compurgative
We have dilated on the subject of the compurgative ordeal, because we consider it as the basis upon which our criminal jurisprudence has been erected.
--The Edinburgh Review 31: 131 (1818)
July 17, 2010
mollusque commented on the word flocculative
All flocculative and biological treatment processes produce quantities of sludge, irrespective of what some manufacturers may claim.
--Bill Bennett and Graham Cole, 2003, Pharmaceutical Production: an Engineering Guide, p.296
July 17, 2010
mollusque commented on the word postulative
Using a literary trick we may say that what was written so far represents scientists' everyday knowledge of everyday knowledge. As a result, such analyses are of postulative nature and do not result in empirical studies.
--Piotr Buczkowski, 1991, The Social Horizon of Knowledge, p. 177
July 17, 2010
mollusque commented on the word wobulation
At a high level, wobulation is sort of like interlaced video because it relies upon the persistence of vision, meaning you see something longer than it's actually in front of you, especially when images are changing very rapidly, like every 1/60 of a second. A DLP chip with wobulation uses another mirror that moves even faster(once every 1/120 of a second, or faster) to re-aim the pixels from individual mirrors on the DLP chipset.
--Danny Briere and Pat Hurley, 2007, HDTV for Dummies, p. 267
July 17, 2010
mollusque commented on the word nodulative
The absence of nodulative ability in these three species, in the face of its presence in the other 37 species of Acacia . . . particularly as none of the three species was found to have the coloured roots often associated with a lack of nodulative ability.
--J. H. Ross, 1979, A Conspectus of the African Acacia Species, p. 46
July 17, 2010
mollusque commented on the word loculative
The second pathological classification (the loculative or encystic form) of tubercular peritonitis may be suppurative or ascitic.
--A. W. Cheatham, 1916, Journal of the National Medical Association 8: 18
July 17, 2010
mollusque commented on the word lobulative
. . . a cortex and medulla were distinguishable, lobulative growth had occurred and small corpuscles had appeared.
--Eva Sandefeldt, 1973, The Cornell Veterinarian 63: 511
July 17, 2010
mollusque commented on the word Ritalin
How do you solve a problem like Maria? ♫
July 16, 2010
mollusque commented on the word desumoylating
The protein is expressed in bacteria, purified by metal affinity chromatography, and liberated from the His6-SUMO fusion by cleavage with a modified version of the desumoylating enzyme Ulp1.
--Jane K. Setlow, 2006, Genetic Engineering: Principles and Methods, p. 111
July 16, 2010
mollusque commented on the word forty
The only alphaliteral number in English. German has eins and acht; French has deux, cinq, and dix. What about other languages?
July 16, 2010
mollusque commented on the word mountainey
The priest's words weighed heavily on Maurice Galvin. His own shortcomings had long haunted him—mostly on windy nights in his lonely cottage, especially, for a season, when he lay abed with his head broken by a mountainey man at Ballyboy fair.
--Lewis Macnamara, 1898, "The reformation of Maurice Galvin", Pall Mall Magazine 16: 223
July 16, 2010
mollusque commented on the word mountainey
Interesting distinction you've found hernesheir: "mountainey" means "in the mountains" or "from the mountains", whereas "mountainy" means "full of mountains", "associated with mountains".
July 16, 2010
mollusque commented on the word neovulgarist
Hugo is supposed to be a neovulgarist, although I don't know what that means in books. In frocks it means skirts made out of brushed Day-Glo acrylic and anything vinyl.
--Lee Tulloch, 1989, Fabulous Nobodies, p. 86
July 16, 2010
mollusque commented on the word neovulcanism
There was some NH3 — ammonia —
In Kali, but the real source was here:
Outgassing from the neovulcanism.
--Frederick Turner, 1988, Genesis: an Epic Poem
July 16, 2010
mollusque commented on the word profeudalism
For instance, when Leo XIII effected the shift from the Church's profeudalism to its endorsement of middle-class democracy, the protagonists of feudalism inside the Vatican did not suddenly disappear.
--Wilfried Daim, 1970, The Vatican and Eastern Europe, p. 32
July 16, 2010
mollusque commented on the word neosultanism
An immediate transition from neosultanism to a democratically elected government is almost impossible because of the lack of moderate, somewhat autonomous forces within the regime willing to negotiate such a move and because the country has no independent societal organizations and political institutions and parties, which can emerge only after the fall of the dictator.
--H. E. Chehabi and Juan José Linz, 1998, Sultanistic Regimes, p. 102
July 16, 2010
mollusque commented on the word neoruralism
Now, by the middle of the twentieth century, it was about to make its dominant residential form a kind of neoruralism that came to be known as suburbanization.
--Ezra Mendelsohn, 1999, People of the City: Jews and the Urban Challenge, p. 21
July 16, 2010
mollusque commented on the word neomuralism
Los Grupos consisted of more than fifteen groups of diverse social backgrounds, objectives, and artistic interests that included, among others, performance, photography, neomuralism, books, urban poetry, and urban theater.
--Luis Camnitzer et al., 1999, Global conceptualism: points of origin, 1950s-1980s, p. 59
July 16, 2010
mollusque commented on the word neolunatic
They thought they'd be discussing funding for breast cancer research, but he wanted to talk about the neolunatic myth that there's a link between abortion and breast cancer.
--Shelley Lewis, 2006, Naked Republicans: a Full-frontal Exposure of Right-wing Hypocrisy and Greed, p. 18
July 16, 2010
mollusque commented on the user hernesheir
Yes, the hyphenated forms usually appears first, but I don't list them, unless they're forms unlikely to lose the hyphen (e.g., soul-searchingly), in which case they go on Panvocalic phrases, or are proper names (e.g., Duplessis-Mornay, Port-au-Prince). Of course, that gives you and ruzuzu more room to romp . . .
July 15, 2010
mollusque commented on the user hernesheir
Hi hernesheir, I have ultrarevolutionaries unhyphenated. Your discovering it independently is amazing! (I picked it up off a word records website a couple of years ago.)
July 15, 2010
mollusque commented on the word Anglo-Saxophone
To speak "Anglo-Saxophone" is to talk English in a very loud voice, to a foreigner who does not understand the language.
--Notes and Queries, p. 80 (1925)
July 14, 2010
mollusque commented on the user feedback
Looks like we passed 25,000 lists yesterday or today!
July 14, 2010
mollusque commented on the user hernesheir
I finally caught up with all your panvocalic plants (and other ponderable creatures), hernesheir. Thanks for helping to pushed my Panvocalic organisms list over 500 items!
In the process, I saw some tags that you'll probably want to revisit. I've noted them temporarily in the list description.
July 14, 2010
mollusque commented on the user ruzuzu
Hi ruzuzu, I tag only the vowel sequences; hernesheir also tags words as euvocalic, euryvocalic, and panvocalic. Do either or both, as you prefer. Include all the vowels when you tag, e.g., aeioue for "abstemiousness". I don't generally list panvocalics with extra vowels, so there is ample room for another list too. My Panvocalic polyglot list is open if you want to add to that.
July 13, 2010
mollusque commented on the word autovein
However, the principal of grafting a patient's own vein remained largely ignored well into the 1960s. Although surgeons at Walter Reed Army Hospital successfully used autovein grafting in the early 1950s, most surgeons opted instead for arterial grafts.
--Kathryn Hahner, 1993, Perspectives on Medical Research, p. 65
July 12, 2010
mollusque commented on the word autowise
He said "Scat!" to civilization and literally wandered autowise and otherwise into the northern wilderness with a writing pad, camera, sketchbook, rods, duffle bags and a khaki pillow case which he had the nerve to call a tent.
--Charles Bradford, 1921, The American Angler, p. 403
July 12, 2010
mollusque commented on the word autowipe
Most standard modules in kits performed an autowipe if the remote experienced a privacy shutdown.
--Laura E. Reeve, 2008, Peacekeeper, p. 86
July 12, 2010
mollusque commented on the word autoride
What would members of a congregation think of a minister who failed to appear in the pulpit on Sunday without notifying his members because he had an opportunity to golf, fish, autoride, sleep, rest, or engage in some other personal pleasure?
--The Lutheran Witness 46: 454 (1927)
July 12, 2010
mollusque commented on the word autopipe
The DREADCO autopipe will store up its smoke as a long-lasting foam, to be inhaled at pleasure. The user would breathe out in big bubbles and these could be caught in a "bubble tray", preventing suffering for non-smokers nearby.
--Daedalus, 1983, New Scientist 97(1344): 420
July 12, 2010
mollusque commented on the word autopike
I have reason to believe that the boy is operating a borrowed, manually controlled vehicle on the Canada autopike, northbound from Philadelphia, ETD forty minutes ago.
--Keith Laumer, 1976, The Best of Keith Laumer, p. 112
July 12, 2010
mollusque commented on the word automine
The quantity of JJ-180, for security purposes, was shipped to Lilistar in five separate containers on five separate transports. Four reached Lilistar. One did not; the reegs destroyed it with an automine.
--Philip K. Dick, 1966, Now Wait for Last Year
July 12, 2010
mollusque commented on the word automile
Automobile dealers often congregate in a single location (the "automile"). Furniture stores also cluster together. If there are three stores of a competing nature in a town, two in one location and one some distance away, the two may have an advantage.
--David E. Bell and Walter J. Salmon, 1996, Introduction to Retailing: Text and Cases, p. 180
July 12, 2010
mollusque commented on the word autoline
The autoline system has up to 40000 to 50000 hooks on a longline up to 60 km in length.
--Jeanne Mager Stellman, 1998, Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety, vol. 3, p. 66.7
July 12, 2010
mollusque commented on the word autolike
But SUVs, which are essentially trucks with autolike bodies, have a high risk of a rollover due to their high center of gravity and can pose dangers to passengers and occupants.
--Ballard C. Campbell, 2008, American Disasters: 201 Calamities That Shook the Nation, p. 181
July 12, 2010
mollusque commented on the word autolife
But if the Storable type attribute were identified as an "autolife" attribute (an object that could exist without other objects dependencies) it will not be deleted.
--Li Xu, A. Min Tjoa and Sohail Chaudhryl, 2007, Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems, vol. 2, p. 938
July 12, 2010
mollusque commented on the user hernesheir
. . . and for apneumonic. Go ahead and tag where you want. I re-enter the vowel tags for panvocalics if someone else beats me to them, hoping that someday it will again be possible to link to one's own tags separately from general tags.
July 12, 2010
mollusque commented on the word autokite
Sensors on his 'autokite', coupled via its control cables to a computerized manipulator on the ground, enable it to be flown aloft and stabilized at any altitude without human intervention. No matter how the wind fluctuates, the autokite reacts to maintain its height.
--Nature 348: 116 (1990)
July 12, 2010
mollusque commented on the word autohire
Note that competitive fees will be charged for agent out of pocket expenses such as autohire, customs bond, agent overtime, and communications.
--Fairplay, p. cx (1992)
July 12, 2010
mollusque commented on the word autosketching
You will recognize some of these submenu items from the earlier chapters on autosketching, and in some cases these operate in a similar manner.
--Daniel L. Ryan, 1990, Technical Sketching and Computer Illustration, p. 169
July 12, 2010
mollusque commented on the word autoblending
CJB's activity in the autoblending field will be represented by a typical electronic control panel as a unit in the complete installations available from the Autoblending Section of the Division.
--Process Control and Automation7: 229 (1960)
July 12, 2010
mollusque commented on the word autostemming
Remember that Google performs autostemming; a search for “admin login” returns approximately 1.3 million results, including results that were autostemmed to include the phrase "administrator login.
--Johnny Long and Ed Skoudis, 2005, Google Hacking for Penetration Testers, p. 211
July 11, 2010
mollusque commented on the word autospelling
Common manipulations include autotruncation, autospelling checkers, thesauri matching, word frequency analysis, and more sophisticated semantic analysis.
--David Stern, 1999, Digital Libraries: Philosophies, Technical Design Considerations, and Example Scenarios, p. 73
July 11, 2010
mollusque commented on the word autosmelting
As the gangue of the oxide concentrates and ores is mainly siliceous, it is not possible to obtain an autosmelting agglomerate, and it is necessary to add basic fluxes such as iron ore and limestone to the charge.
--Metallurgical Society Conferences 39: 107 (1959)
July 11, 2010
mollusque commented on the word autopressing
Manufacturing costs may be further reduced, where the varistors are formed as discs, because varistor discs are substantially cheaper to manufacture than blocks: discs may be formed by 'autopressing' and the firing thereof is quicker since they are much thinner than blocks.
--John Thatcher, 1996, "Electrical Surge Arrester", U.S. Patent 6,008,977, column 3
July 11, 2010
mollusque commented on the word autodredging
The water which pours over the top of the mole forms a jet with the possibility of autodredging.
--Bulletin of the Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses 38-39: 86 (1964)
July 11, 2010
mollusque commented on the word autoblessing
So even blessing oneself is predicated on conventions of performance which display sensitivity to their interactive origins. It is interesting, however, that there is no conventional speech act for autoblessing in English, such as 'God bless me'.
--Kurt A. Bruder, 1998, "A pragmatics for human relationship with the divine: An examination of the monastic blessing sequence", Journal of Pragmatics 29(4)
July 11, 2010
mollusque commented on the word autostenting
Nasal turbinate mucosa and hard palate can be harvested in portions large enough for reconstruction of the upper and lower eyelid simultaneously. This allows for autostenting of the eyelids, upper to lower, during the healing phase.
--R. A. Goldberg et al., 1999, Archives of Ophthalmology 117: 1255
July 11, 2010
mollusque commented on the user hernesheir
Thanks for autostenting, hernesheir.
July 11, 2010
mollusque commented on the word autoremind
If John Doe is not within a proximity of the user at the reminder time of 7:00 am on Nov. 1, 2001, then the reminder can be presented to the user graphically, and audibly if so configured in the autoremind parameter.
--John P. Veschl, 2000, "Intelligent reminders for wireless PDA devices", U.S. Patent 7,212,827 B1
July 11, 2010
mollusque commented on the word autorewind
The procedure to follow to save the unused film depends on whether your camera features autorewind or is rewound manually; some SLR cameras with a motor drive offer both options.
--Tom Grimm and Michele Grimm, 2003, The Basic Book of Photography, p. 57
July 11, 2010
mollusque commented on the word autowelding
The lurid glare of autowelding dazzled the eyes and the snowy veil melted in cones of bluish light.
--Galina Nikolaeva, 1952, Harvest: a novel, p. 305
July 11, 2010
mollusque commented on the word autovesting
For example, there may be golden parachute clauses, loan forgiveness, or option autovesting in their employment or option agreements that are triggered by a change in control of the target.
--Steven M. Bragg, 2009, Controllership: The Work of the Managerial Accountant, p. 730
July 11, 2010
mollusque commented on the word autotenting
A major inconvenience, if the family wanted to stop by the roadside for lunch when autotenting, was that part of the car would have to be unpacked to get chairs, table, utensils, and food, taking away from the precious time that might be used to increase the day's mileage.
--Allan D. Wallis, 1997, Wheel Estate: The Rise and Decline of Mobile Homes, p. 36
July 11, 2010
mollusque commented on the word autotelling
It is known to use card readers in bank autotelling equipment, security, access systems, and in equipment where only authorized users should gain access, for information recorded on a card to be read.
--James C. R. Massey, 1989, "Card reading apparatus having a passive electric speed controller", U.S. Patent 4,914,279, column 1
July 11, 2010
Show 200 more comments...