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yarb commented on the word urbaniore
What is this, bilby (apart from panvocalic)?
May 7, 2009
bilby commented on the word urbaniore
"So much for the more civilized apple-trees (urbaniores, as Pliny calls them). I love better to go through the old orchards of ungrafted apple-trees, at whatever season of the year,--so irregularly planted: sometimes two trees standing close together; and the rows so devious that you would think that they not only had grown while the owner was sleeping, but had been set out by him in a somnambulic state."
- Henry David Thoreau, Wild Apples: The History of the Apple Tree.
May 7, 2009
yarb commented on the word urbaniore
Thanks - but wouldn't the singular be urbanior?
I've got this panvocalic itch in my pants.
May 7, 2009
bilby commented on the word urbaniore
Yes, Latinly speaking, but my 'plain English' feeling was just to truncate the s. Upon reflection, as it is not a word in current use, I should have just listed it as urbaniores and done the right thing by Pliny :-)
See Dr Mollusque about that itch.
May 8, 2009
yarb commented on the word urbaniore
Yeah. I've been there myself with lare et penate...
May 8, 2009
mollusque commented on the word urbaniore
Yarb, I prescribe adding urbaniores to Panvocalic polyglot.
May 9, 2009
yarb commented on the word urbaniore
Thanks Doc, that's much better.
May 9, 2009