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Yankee

#520908 Fri, 30 May 08 03:02 PM

Oh, dang! MM beat me to the punch.

Good work, oh great frisbee-er of cats! Stick out tongue

Yankee

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Amy "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." - Mark Twain

Mister Micawber

#520912 Fri, 30 May 08 03:24 PM

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Hmm. I'm running out of ideas for new genres. Well, let's see how long it takes you all to identify a linguistic word of some arcanity.

10 letters.

Mister Micawber

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'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master-- that's all.'

Tanit

#520921 Fri, 30 May 08 03:36 PM

Is it ... an adjective? a noun? a verb?

Would you say it's related to ... grammar? vocabulary? pronunciation?

Tanit

Joined on Mon, Jul 31 2006

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A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day. (A. Schweitzer)

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optilang

#520927 Fri, 30 May 08 03:45 PM

pejoration

optilang

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OptiNative British English Speaker Wherever I may roam, I'm still a Londoner.

Mister Micawber

#521093 Sat, 31 May 08 12:34 AM

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pejoration -- No. What happened to pluperfect?
Is it ... an adjective? a noun? a verb? -- A noun

Would you say it's related to ... grammar? vocabulary? pronunciation?-- Pronunciation.

I'm not going to be very coy with this one, because I don't think it's in anyone's active vocabulary. I just happened to think of it because it's related to Spoonerisms... and I had to look it up to check the spelling. It is a phenomenon which produced this mouldy old joke:

A Latino named Jose went to America to see the Yankees vs. the Red Socks. When he got his ticket, it was in the nosebleed section. He did not care what section he was in. Anyway, it was game day. Everyone stood for the National Anthem. When Jose got home, he said, "Mama, they made a song in America just for me." -- "How does it go, hijo?" -- "It goes, 'Jose, can you see?'

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Grammar Geek

#521143 Sat, 31 May 08 02:45 AM

mondegreen

"Scuse me, while I kiss this guy" or the more religious "And He walks with me and He talks with me and He tells me I am his own...." "Mom, who's Andy?"

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Barbara, who answers in American English.

Mister Micawber

#521159 Sat, 31 May 08 03:51 AM

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Wow! I guess it's in your active vocabulary! My favorite has always been 'Gladly, the cross-eyed bear'.

Your turn, GG.

Mister Micawber

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Tanit

#521286 Sat, 31 May 08 02:19 PM

Mondegreen was not in my vocabulary (neither active, nor passive), so I've just checked some dictionaries and wanted to share its etymology

American Heritage

After (Lady) Mondegreen, a misinterpretation of the line (hae laid) him on the green, from the song “The Bonny Earl of Murray”.

Dictionary.com

Origin: 1954; coined by Sylvia Wright, U.S. writer, from the line laid him on the green, interpreted as Lady Mondegreen, in a Scottish ballad

Funny!