i ONLy hAVe ONe...... antidisestablishmentarianism yes, it IS a word.

My grandfather was praised for being of "abstemious nature" when he was at sea. My other favourite words have been listed already: floccinaucinihilipilification antidisestablishmentarianism But not: pruritic bibliophile

wombat. wwwwwoooooommmmmmbbbbbaaaattttt. wombat. ahhh.

Antipathy. Epiphany. Smooth. Melange. Annui. Argon. Evenstar. Mithril. Moria. Numenore. Wanderlust. Dunedain. There seem to be so many more....I know I'll remember them when I press the button. Oh well.

struggle. juggle. and any other word ending in "-uggle" and "happy" "adult"

yo-yo (yo-yo-yo-yo-yo-yo-yo- ... circular word) prescient trinitite perpendicularity ostenatto placebo panoplia

defenestrate! YES! defenestration for all! that and pan-galactic gargle blasters

cuckold kowtow last weekend I decided that my favorite city name was "dnepropetrovsk," then the new york times used it on monday. that was exciting, to see it get such a large audience.

"Abstemious nature" [NZAngel 10/21/98]? What exactly does that mean? That he refrained from constantly polishing the mizzenmast? And while I'm half a year late in my responses anyway, I notice that TB Soup [7/31/98] used "quatsch", the German word for nonsense, pronounced "kvahtch". I dated a baroness (Freiin) in Muenchen, and she would go around scornfully replying "Quatsch!" to anything she disagreed with, to which I would way "Doch!" Ah, such a nice collection here. I've downloaded the page so I'll have something to comfort me in my old age.

Dnepropetrovsk was Brezhnev's power base, as he had started his career as Party boss of the surrounding oblast. So when he became GS of the CC of the CPSU, he brought all his friends from the old days in, who were disparagingly referred to as "the Dnepropetrovsk mafia". That's why I became a Sovietologist, so I'd have an excuse to say Dnepropetrovsk on a regular basis. Then that boring Chernenko from Minsk took over, and it was all downhill. Kamshchatka is nice too. We learned to pronounce the "shch" sound in Russian by saying "fresh cheese" really fast.

last weekend while drunk I met an american woman who had lived in dnepropetrovsk, and I gratuitously dropped that name in conversation with her ("so, you lived in dnepropetrovsk. what's dnepropetrovsk like?") when I was in college and found that I had to declare a major, I chose "anthropology" because that was the word I most liked to say (my second choice would have been comparative literature, as its course catalog abbreviation was CLIT) and it didn't really matter what I chose, as I wasn't planning to attend classes regularly anyway. then I specialized in physical anthropology, specifically human evolution, as an excuse to say the word "australopithecus" a lot. oh weird. a coworker just said, "hey, I didn't know chernenko was from dnepropetrovsk." he's reading a book about the state security service has fought with the dnepropetrovsk power base for power in post-soviet ukraine. did he grow up in dnepropetrovsk and move to minsk?

i've always liked the language disorder words: copralalia glossalalia aphasia my favorite place name is: brest litovsk, isn't that pretty? and from RISK kamchatka has always had a nice ring. i like foreign words, too: grenouille lietuviskai and for some reason, melange and savour. let us not forget onomatapoiea

onomatapoiea, zeugma and synedoche have all been mentioned. I learned all those words on the same day in high school. according to a little chernenko bio I found on the web, he is not from minsk or dnepropetrovsk. he's from siberia. http://www.artnet.net/~upstart/chern.html

now I keep repeating "fresh cheese" to myself.

Happy happy joy joy. Where to start with these goodies. Brezhnev's is even better. He dreamed of being an actor? I love Stalin's comment, "What a handsome Moldavian." (!) And as a bonus, he originally hailed from Dneprodzerzhinsk. Don't know where I got Minsk from for Konstantin Ustinovich. His surname is Ukrainian, however, and was considered a member of the Dnepropetrovsk mafia, even though he didn't really serve there. What's the name and author of the book?

what is the word for a phrase or word that is the same spelling front to back or back to front? i was trying to think of it the other day, and for some reason, it was eluding me. ex: racecar, racecar!

palindrome

my mother, who is weird, picked me up at the airport after I'd been out of the country for a year and on a plane for 15 hours, and in the car on the way home, when the only thing I could really think about was how much I wanted to first go to taco bell and second sleep, she said, "I want to know how smart you are. what's the name for words that are spelled the same backward and forward?" I almost cried. it reminded me of when I was 14 and ran away from home (well, as far as my friend cindy's house, anyway) because I got a b in school and couldn't face my mother. more details than anyone asked for, huh? here's a response to an actual request: Dnipropetrovsk V Security Service from the Series: Politics and Policy-Makers published by Ukrainian Center for Independent Political Research, 1996 made possible by tax dollars from income-declaring americans such as yourselves. (you-ess-ay-aye-dee) my friend says the interesting information in the book gets lost in all the bad writing (and spelling!). not recommended.

If he sends me a copy, I'll not only cover purchase price and postage, I'll include Doritos or whatever it is that expats in Ukraine are jonesing for these days.

pi pie

Your leading purveyors of Dnepropetrovsk madness continue here.

cyst, thank you. that was really bothering me, and i didn't have a reverse dictionary.

llama LLAMA LLLLLLLLLLAMA just something about it....

I've always loved saying the name "Wickham"...I get the feeling there are about ten Thousand implyed "H"s right after the "W" in that name....(WhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhICKHAM!!!) ipicak (which I don't really know how to spell and it's not in my dictionary, but just sound it out) is also a lot of fun to say. ipicak. ipicak. ipicak. oh god.

...and then there's Tuktoyaktuk. Which I think is a city.

i had this friend in college... whenever he wanted to express that something was extraordinarily good, he would always say it was "dalai lama". for instance: "man, i just scored some phat buds from dr. vic. yo, that shit is DALAI LAMA!" that always used to crack me up.

Ipecac -- meaning the stuff they use to induce vomiting? That word always sounds like foreign currency to me. When we finally succeed in discovering a habitable planet within our solar system/the astronauts disembark (or whatever one calls exiting a space craft)/are escorted to the nearest bar/& find out that a bottle of the local micorbrew costs 18 ipecacs.

We always have a fun supply of syrup of ipecac on the ambulance, but my favorite tool in the med box is Narcan, DuPont's brand name for naloxone hydrochloride. It almost instantly separates opioids from their neural receptors, killing a high immediately. We use it on ODs, and it's pretty dramatic when they almost rise from the dead. After whacking junkies with it, though, we step back, because they sometimes sit up swinging for ruining their high, even though it was putting them into respiratory arrest.

Ipecac! That's it! Thanks dumpling. [bumm pat] I feel very much like a sleezy old boss cheating on his wife with his reluctant secretary, today.

oxymoron

That's just rude, man.

some words: words I haven't been able to find any referring page to tell me why they're there, but most of them are real choice words that could well find a place of honor here, if they haven't already.

Nice find. I'm going to challenge "w", however.

Just say it slowly: double u, dubliu, dubbbbleyouuuu. Unless you're from Philly; then it's just 'dubya'

amalgam kinda made getting fillings a little more tolerable.

that stuff'll kill you. what were they thinking?

To start off, My nickname is Spatula (or the nickname of my nickname, Spatch). I am not exactly sure where it came from... I think it started with Pam ryhmes with Spam, then went on to Spamula which then was contorted into Spatula. My friends are very odd, but then again, I guess so am I. There's really nothing wrong with that either, because I would just hate to be considered "normal". And just what is normal? And speaking of normal, here's a word: 'normalcy'. Which president was it that made that word up for one of his speeches? J. Edgar Hoover? No, I think it was the same guy who said walk softly and carry a big stick... I don't remember, but it was one of them. I love the word 'wanker' and 'bollucks' (is that is the correct way to spell it?). Kumquat just sounds like it should be a naughty word, but I just love it. I can't help but call my husband "my little kumquat" every now and then. He thinks it's cute as long as I don't over use it. R.C. French words are my favorite! Your list was wonderful! I just love the way French words just roll off your tongue (there's another word -- tongue!) or spring forth from the back of your throat... Four years of French class and I still can't speak fluently (aha! another word -- fluent or fluently). Of course it has been two years since my last French class... I need someone to speak French with. I am absolutely in love with everything French (well, almost everything. I especially love French kissing -- ooohhhh and French fries, even if they're not actually or culturally French). When I was working at my Grandfather's pizza restaurant, most of my co-workers would talk about el chupacabra... I couldn't get that word out of my head. But I just love the English translation... Goat sucker... tee hee hee... Brouhaha My husband came up with this word a long time ago, long before I knew him, but he lovingly shared it with me -- Diptard. I guess it's a cross between Dipshit and Retard. It's quite comical, especially when you throw it in on a serious argument. You can't help but laugh. Hoser. That is just hilarious. Go lay down with your pups, hoser. Canadians. I love them almost as much as the French. Dork. There is a word that I think is used in the wrong conotation. Since the actually meaning of dork is a whale's penis, men should really feel quite honored when someone calls them a dork. It is a compliment isn't it? Well, I guess a great come back from being called a dork would be either, "No, but I've got one," or "Well, it's about the same size..." Regardless of it's meaning, I love the word. What about Illiad? Or is that Iliad? I can never remember. Not only did I love the story but I also love the word. Words are great fun. In my Desktop Publishing class my Junior year in High School, a friend and I spent many a day creating a list of words that we loved. Unfortunately, we lost the list. What a shame that was. Fellatio <GRIN> mushroom broccoli sorabji (I'm surprised no one has said it by now) totalitarianism bubble vermillion reconnaissance (especially the way Elizabeth Hurley says it in Austin Powers) clock mojo

theodore roosevelt I have recently remembered the word "cretin." I was talking to people on my bank's customer service line.

I too am very fond of the french, Pamela. And Canadians. When I was in the states, I really enjoyed using common Canadian words that I knew they didn't use down there. Like chesterfeild and serviette. My sister did it too, but she didn't realize it. Sis: "Can you tell me where the washroom is?" American: "The what?" Sis: "The washroom?" American: "The restroom?" Sis: "The washroom." (nodding) American: "Wait...what?" Once, while waiting for a bus, I asked some guy if he had a loony. Even after I explained what it was, he refused to believe me.

what the heck is a loony? Kiwis use the word 'toilet' or 'bathroom'

Maybe a form of the loo?

when I was very, very young, I was out with my dad and told I had to go to the bathroom. he asked me why I called it a "bathroom." "there isn't a bath in there, is there?" I tried this logic on my first-grade teacher. I told her I had to go to the toilet. she told me to call it a "bathroom."

LOL Isn't it amazing how contradicting everything is? Gee: I was reading some of the Canadians board (I forget what the name of the board was or where it is, sorry) and everyone was making fun of Canadians. And the French. Even though I found the whole thing comical, I still love both cultures very much! I myself am part French. I am also part everything else! Well, everything European, that is! = )

well then...i guess this is obligatory.... fuck you! with affection of course

= ) Awww, Waffles! You are the sweetest! = )

A loony is 62 cents.

I believe a serviette to be a linen napkin of sorts and I may be fully wrong but what is a chesterfield? A divan or a duvay or neither? Is a chesterfield a pack of smokes or one of those blue things with the things sticking out of it? You know, those blue things with the things on them? Seriously though, what is a chesterfield?

Chesterfield: \'ches-ter-feeld\ n [fr. a 19th cent. Earl of Chesterfield] (1852) 1: a single-breasted or double-breasted semifitted overcoat with a velvet collar 2: a davenport usu. with upright armrests --courtesy of the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th ed.

Davenport: \'da-vn-port\ n [prob. fr. the name Davenport {really?--RD}] (1853) 1: a small compact writing desk 2: a large upholstered sofa often convertible into a bed

my random house dictionary has a third entry for chesterfield that reads: 3. _chiefly Canadian_. any large sofa or couch.

by the way - i'm american and i know what a washroom is.

Speaking of dictionaries and favorite words, this dictionary is really cool because it tells you the exact differences among synonyms. Check it out: syn: DEADLY, MORTAL, FATAL, LETHAL mean causing or capable of causing death. DEADLY applies to an established or very likely cause of death <a deadly disease>. MORTAL implies that death has occurred or is inevitable <a mortal wound>. FATAL stresses the inevitability of what has in fact resulted in death or destruction <fatal consequences>. LETHAL applies to something that is bound to cause death or exists for the destruction of life <lethal gas>. syn: BEAUTIFUL, LOVELY, HANDSOME, PRETTY, COMELY, FAIR mean exciting sensuous or aesthetic pleasure. BEAUTIFUL applies to whatever excites the keenest of pleasure to the senses and stirs emotion through the senses. LOVELY is close to BEAUTIFUL but applies to a narrower range of emotional excitation in suggesting the graceful, delicate, or exquisite. HANDSOME suggests aesthetic pleasure due to proportion, symmetry, or elegance. PRETTY often applies to superficial or insubstantial attractiveness. COMELY is like HANDSOME in suggesting what is coolly approved of rather than emotionally responded to. FAIR suggests beauty because of purity, flawlessness, or freshness. I don't know why, but this kind of stuff fascinates me. I also love words like "defenestration," words that you can't really believe they made a whole word for that. Do you know what I mean? There's a word (too bad I can't remember what it is) that means the shy tone of voice you get when you speak of something you care a great deal for. I think it's neat that there is a unique word for that state, rather than a clumsy phrase. I also think it's neat that in Gaelic -- a language with very very very few homonyms -- the word for "truth" is the same as the word for "girl."

I know why I like stuff like this...duh. I like writing and I like being as precise as I possibly can. I took 2 semesters of poetry writing last year, and I wrote a poem in which I used the word "adjuration," which means essentially "begging," but it implies begging God or begging something from someone in great authority. So much better than just plain old "begging," and it worked really well for the poem.

spool..... thats a fun word..... as in..my printer spool on this network is acting up god damn it, i have asked my techies three times to fix the fucking printer SPOOL soes I can print a document that i need to mail yesterday...BUT NO!!!!!!!!!!!! the ding dongs all have to go to lunch at the same time...all 4 of them, ther the discuss their knight outfits for this weekends renaissance festival and discuss d&d theories and the pros and cons of proxy servers............damn it damn it damn damn you SPOOL rhymes with drool, cool, ghoul, fool, mule, dule, fuel, rule,

Scaffism- the act of covering your entire body in honey, laying out in the sun, and dying from the intense heat.

poikilothermy- the condition of having the tempature of the organism or animal assume the same tempature as the environment. I once had a patient who suffered poikilothermia due to a brain stem stroke. Had to keep that room HOT. He didn't live long though.

bumbaklaat!

blaupunkt meine deutsch ist nicht sehr gut

burke, burking to kill someone by smothering them with a pillow, after Burke and Hare, famous for killing vagrants in a rooming house in this manner, and selling them to a med school as cadavers. The word also means to suppress. not to be confused with berk, short for berkshire hunt, cockney rhyming slang for vagina

LoL (I'm laughing a lot today) I love the word bumbaklaat. I used to hear it a lot when I was a kid. I also used to head "bumba johnny!". My sister always got that wrong, though....every now and then I still hear her mutter "Johnny's bumba!" A serviette is a napkin. A chesterfeild is a couch. A loony is a (canadian) dollar. It's a coin with a loon on one side, hence the name. (our two dollar coin is called a Toonie.)

And they're both annoying as hell. But if you keep a change jar/bucket/box/shelf...... the monetary value increases for quicker than prior to these stupid coins. which has its upside (like being able to take vacations more frequently {my change bucket is my vacation fund}).

Toonie is as cheesy as calling URL's "earls" and DUI's "dewies"

My husband had a uncle named Looney Ball.

And I know a guy named Seymore Weiner.

i went to the VSDA (Video Software Dealers Assoc.) convention in Vegas a couple of years ago..........it's a large convention for the video industry and well the porn industry has it's own section...all the different labels and they have all the porn stars there signing autographs and what not.....i met a whole slew of them, in fact my buddy and I stayed in the section the whole damn time we were so mesmerized......anyway...I got to meet this porn chick her boyfriend was this producer named Seymore Butts and she had his name tattoed on her ass.......of course we got a peek...most of the porn girls were barely dressed........we got to watch porn in 3d......met Ron Jeremy....aka the Hedgehogg.........I also met Kevin Smith and Russ Meyer at this convention....it was really kinda sad though......there was a huge line to meet Leslie Nielsen and Russ Meyer was just standing at his booth waitin gfor people to come up and get his autograph and an 8x10.............I also met the the gangbang chick..............shit whats her name...ah hell......Jasmine St. Clair.........and we had Mario (the guy Slater from Saved by The Bell) at our booth. He did a Greg Louganis film....and all the girls were lined up for his autograph....funny though....all the porn stars were swooning him and at the end of the day we saw him get in a limo with a bunch of them......lucky bastard.....

i like how celtic words are spelled. bheann sidhe (banshee) seamus (pronounced "Hamish" when you are talking to a Seamus, and if you were writing him a letter I think it is spelled seamuis or seamues. This is because in Gaelic ( a language i briefly atempted to learn), certain words are spelt different depending on whether you are talking about yourself or someone else. Seamus is actually the Gaelicized version of James, Sean is John, Sinead is Janet, and so on, because there is no letter J in celtic tongues.) excremeditation is also a fave. ampersand I absolutely love Indo European. *okto (latin octo, fr. huit, it. otto, port. oito, eng. eight) *lakte (latin lactem, fr. lait, it. latte, sp. leche, port. leite, eng. milk) *faktu (latin factum, fr. fait, it. fatto, sp. hecho, port. feito, eng. fact)(the irish for girl is fidhe, i think, which is the same as "truth" according to Rhiannon) an * indicates the word has been reconstructed from descendant languages. this al comes from"Archaeology and language" by Renfrew, a fascinating book.

YOU GOT TO MEET SLATER??

Geeb.....you crack me up:)

Gee

I tried to learn Gaelic, too, because it sounds really neat, but the grammar is very strange and I just couldn't do it. The fact that they don't have a word for "yes" or "no" really disturbed me. (If you ask "is it raining?" they have to say "it is.") When I was in Scotland I bought a big English-Gaelic dictionary and I will admit I read it for entertainment. (*sigh*) Anyway, I think the word I mentioned before (the shy tone of voice you get when you speak of something you care a great deal for) is a Gaelic word. I was very impressed with that language because it's chock full of words like that, words whose meanings are so specific and poetic. They have a word for blood floating on water. There's another word for the cry of a drowning man. (They have a lot of sea-related words.) Also, the same words for physical beauty and ugliness also imply moral goodness and evil, respectively. When I can find my dictionary, I'll post more examples, which no one will read, but they're really neat and deserve to be up here.

I have unfortunately left my "teach Your Self Gaelic: book at my mom's house, along with the rest of my collection of celtic literature. For those who remotely give a shit, there are two remaining families of Celtic languages: Goidelic or Q-celtic and Brythonic, or P-celtic. Goidelic includes Irish, Scots Gaelic and Manx Gaelic, while Brythonic includeds Welsh, Cornish, and Breton.

That gaelic concept of moral beauty/ugliness is reflected in Southern U.S. expressions, e.g. "I'm never going back to that store again, the cashier was ugly to me" meaning he was rude and impatient when he couldn't find the code for your Belgian endive... Or, "She was a lovely person;" whether or not her visage plesed or turned men to stone, she always wrote thank-you notes promptly, called on the sick and never had a mean word to say about anybody...

That makes sense, since one the major centers of Scots immigration to America was the Carolinas...

the ebullient egg-sac of ennui

mendacious, slumber, solemn, embers, daddy-o, enigma, elite, abstruse, degregation, sourdough, numb, grey, MALK, wonton, moo, thermodynamics, disbanded, paddelin', erratic, enchanting, congeniality, divert, gloat, beckon, resonate, bobbyhatch, droll, subtle, vex, exasperate, nettle, rile, beefy, erode, zombie, wheeze, taradiddle, quirky, ninny, kinky, hunky-dory, extravaganza, banshee, armpit, cajole, epiphany, gumbo, indigo, lavender, narcissus, ping, retroactive, sulpher, arbitrary Engorged. Weasel. Juxtaposition. Vis-a-vis. and my favorite thus far... titillate and tantalize

vís-a-vís doesn't seem nearly as cool without the special "í"s though. does it? íiíi. what's a taradiddle? tar·ra·did·dle also tar·a·did·dle (tr-ddl). n. A petty falsehood; a fib. Silly pretentious speech or writing; twaddle. oh. nevermind, then. *laugh* PING! hehehehe PING! PING! PING! yep. it works. I hate to say it (no I don't) but: appendectomy. slither. periodontal. FidoBoldCondensed. *sigh* tamale ta molly. gelato.

skitter, fling, spat. rant rant, rave rave- observe, a button is pushed, and words spill out. potential, prelude. facade- tirade, titillate- dream, drunk, drip.

prelude, indeed. this is driving me crazy. Who wrote that: "a button is pushed, and words spill out." ARG! WHO!? Plath? maybe. no?

I always thought it was Jon Carol. At least, he's the one I found it in. Can't remember if he was quoting it or not, though. Bother.

flamboyant. loom. lopped. satchel. gargouille. a tout a l'heure.

no, no, no, you're right, Thistle. I remember it now. I have that column clipped out and stashed somewhere. Of course, my book of his columns is 500 miles away, as is everything I own at the moment. Damn. wow. Good call, though. Jon Carroll is possibly the bestest current, working, living writer in the world. The Oregonian is, overall, a better newspaper than the Chron, but there aren't any columnists worth reading. The back page of the features section of the Chronicle always had Jon Carroll and Adair Lara (Lara Adair? damn.) and Leah Garchik and a crossword puzzle. Easily worth the 50 cents right there. On the upside, the Oregonian always carries the NY Times crossword in the classifieds, for when I am tired of hunting for a job. french words are neat, when taken out of context. Trompe. Foie. Fleur. Arc de Foie Fleur. yep. silly.

*peers at Thistle* Are you in SF?

bulbous bufant

SF? Nope. Possibly, though. It could be done. Thus is the miracle of public transportation. vermillion, aquatic, quantum

verily. bouffant, dearie, bouffant. quamquat. I'm sure I spelled that wrong; anyone wanna help? Persimmon. alabaster. schnauzer.

kumquat. i think. zuccini. lollipop. ooglie. quiche. (argh. food.) lily. feather. skylight. mixed. dinosaur. i just read about how "sardines are terribly good for you. they contain a lot of dna."

Putz, guaqamole ( spelled horribly wrong ), ass-schelunker, yiddish, sweedish, bong, creole, cannibis, Heineken, Moose. Oh yes and cannot forget appendix, the word that means nothing.

Wandered around long enough to find this wonderful Sorabji cubbyhole of words. Perusing the selection, semi-literate that I am, I see my dictionary and search engines are going to get a little workout. In the meantime, a token few of my own favorites: Lola deja vu Ferrari Testarossa Lamborghini Countach Cecilia beaujolais decollette caramel latte Worcester (Wurster, with a Boston accent) Guillermo (think Gyro) Cointreau cachet and last, but not least... Scooby Doo

And how could I forget... Kahlua Liqueur

Why are words parts that sound alike often spelled differently? Take "Weasel" and "Gerbil" for instance. And furthermore. If the past tense of "Spit" is "Spat" why isn't the past tense of "Shit" "Shat"?

"Buttocks" "Fingerfood" "Epee" "Phlegm" "Larynx" "Liverwort" "Cuckold" "Muslim" "Muslin" "Beasteality" "Cunnilingus" "Xerox" are a few of my favorites.

"Diarrhea" is understood universally as is the smile.

i like saying "wombat"

These words rule: Sheboygan Dusseldorf hhhmmmmmm (not really a word, but it comes from the throat, and its fun to do)

Yo, Bobby. That's Wistah, to you. And mind you remember that Wistah was the Paris of the 80s.

hors d'ouevres. ore d'wehveray, not orbed herbs!

No kidding: Floccinochinihilipelification. Look it up.

triskadecaphobia widdershins wanderer library tendu aural leaf i still like "flamboyant".

Like dirty words? Rogers Profanosaurus! English people would probably know what I'm talking about. Real English that is! No offense, Americans- I'm just bitter because the Queen Mother died- I heard she was shot by the Mac-Daddy.

Dr. wilford Funk made a list of the 31 most beautiful words in the english language. Joseph Newman then wrote a poem using them all here is that poem M.B.Words CAPS Twas a TRANQUIL summer evening in the TWILIGHTS GOLDEN HUSH and a BOBOLINK was singing to the warbling of a THRUSH nothing else disturbed the silence save a LULLABY of breeze and the CHIMES of village curfews and a MURMURING in the trees overhead the cloudless ceiling still was LUMINOUSLY bright glowing DAMASK and CERULEAN in a MELODY of light there were MARIGOLDS and JONQUILS side by side with columbine and an ORIOLE was sitting on the TENDRILS of a vine MYRRH and MIGNONETTE were blooming where the meadows softly rolled and a haze lay on the hillside like a GOSSAMER of gold how I loved the lovely Phyllis like a FAWN at DAWN was she or dewdrop on the CHALICE of a spring ANEMONE there she lay among the blossoms in a field of sweet ALYSSUM and my rival sat beside her through the MIST I saw her kiss him from behind the OLEANDER taking aim I shot at Phyllis she is buried in the graveyard neath a bed of AMARYYLLIS let ROSEMARY bloom about her whom I loved so long and well lay a red CAMELLIA on her and a stately ASPHODEL HALCYON days alas are over I have lost the lovely Phyllis and tomorrow I'll be hanging where the gallows on the hill is

Kalamazoo

Hi, just trying to 'googlewhack'and putting in 'amalgam onomatapoiea'gave 1 hit - yours!!! And my favourite words are 'bap' which always makes me laugh, and 'gormless'. Cheers matey,

i have several old jax beer church keys.

I've recently discovered the joys of zax on a triple word score. Zaxy zax zax zax. It's a fun word to say, too. ZAX!

Pantaloons.

deified It's a palindrome. It's a good name for a black metal band. DEIFIED.

I ain't wearin none, did you mean? http://www1.freewebs.com/storiedthreads/Hats/Pirate%20Pantaloons%20Resized.jpg

semi-conscience punk as an adjective meaning "to feel unwell"

"Abu Hol" is a great name for a death metal band. It's arabic for "King of Terror" and is what the Sphinx is known as in Egypt.

Spatula I wonder what happened to Christopher. Hope he's doing well.

I'm still wondering if he's growing pot in his closet,and how he does it? A friend of mine "cough" tried growing it in her closet,but then her grandson stayed 2 weeks with her, making it hard to water. She said it's not worth the trouble.I'm not one to gossip though.

J, I do remember growing mine in a closet , everything was FINE, until my ex-wife made a words to her sister, and other, I got paranoid for seeing people coming to see the closet. So, I decided to "kill" my plant.