Words you’ve read
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souphound
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Re: Words you’ve read
disposophobia
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der Freiherr
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Re: Words you’ve read
GoogaMooga wrote:propinquity - no-one ever uses that word.
Mike Nesmith used it in a song title, but thankfully doesn't actually use it in the song. A rare display of restraint.
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Darkness_Fish
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Re: Words you’ve read
milquetoast
verisimilitude
Words for reading, never for saying.
verisimilitude
Words for reading, never for saying.
Like fast-moving clouds casting shadows against a hillside, the melody-loop shuddered with a sense of the sublime, the awful unknowable majesty of the world.
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GoogaMooga
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Re: Words you’ve read
Darkness_Fish wrote:milquetoast
verisimilitude
Words for reading, never for saying.
I've said both. But I agree.
"When the desert comes, people will be sad; just as Cannery Row was sad when all the pilchards were caught and canned and eaten." - John Steinbeck
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Re: Words you’ve read
GoogaMooga wrote:propinquity - no-one ever uses that word.
I have, when talking about this
Edit - posted this before I realised there was a second page and Baron beat me to it.
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Rayge
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Apart from souphound's phobia and Minnie's medical terms, everything else mentioned so far is part of the daily discourse at Granger Towers...
In timeless moments we live forever
You can't play a tune on an absolute
Negative Capability...when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason”
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Hugh
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Re: Words you’ve read
Charlie O. wrote:preternatural
The only time I have seen preternatural used was by Stephen Donaldon in his Thomas Covenant books. I've said a few times as a nod to that.
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Samoan
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Re: Words you’ve read
Choleric as there are reams of alternatives.
I've used the other three of the four temperaments from time to time.
I've used the other three of the four temperaments from time to time.
Nonsense to the aggressiveness, I've seen more aggression on the my little pony message board......I mean I was told.
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Deebank
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Re: Words you’ve read
Darkness_Fish wrote:milquetoast
verisimilitude
Words for reading, never for saying.
I've been talking about writing a book - 25 years of TEFL - for a few years now. I've got it in me.
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Paid anghofio fod dy galon yn y chwyldro