A Unique Word?

Perhaps we should bring back the old english long s (the f-shaped one) or use the german es-zed ß That would be handy for Miß and avoid Miss or Miz arguments - also handy for american gentleman in dark suits and sunglasses...

I used to struggle with misshapen.

By the way, can anybody find a rhyme for month?

George

Ah, well - there I think you're misled.

I don't think they hold Miss Pelt anymore, with the decllne in real fur coats.

Neil

Yes, I suppose this is inevitable as we get more and more used to seeing a newly compounded word. I wonder whether anyone writes "girl-friend" any more? Or "to-day" or "cup-board"?

One bugbear (or is that bug-bear?) of mine is the word "predate". Having read widely in ecology in my youth I got very used to understanding the word "predate" to mean to "prey on". "Pre-date" was the other word. Now, they're both "predate". A useful disambiguation has been squandered.

Edited By Bill Phinn on 29/04/2019 19:44:29

An excellent catch, Bill

MichaelG.

Does this means antecedants are now predators?

Neil

P.S. relieved to finally find another ecologist!

Edited By Neil Wyatt on 29/04/2019 22:59:36

A young lad at work last week used 'curate' to say he would tidy up the store room and was unaware of its previous as in historic usage. sigh.

Always were, Neil; specifically apex predators of the ursine variety, namely forebears.

🐻

Edited By Bill Phinn on 29/04/2019 23:11:48

Typical inflation - in my day Goldilocks only met three bears!

Reminded me that Churchill claimed disappointment after reading a paper entitled 'Sex Lives of the Primates'. It wasn't about Archbishops.

it's interesting how certain words can baffle ones brain . You might just have a double take on these..........

REDIAL

BEDRAPE

FORESTRESS. All may not be as it appears

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I remember doing a double-take when I saw a journal in the library : THERAPIST

MichaelG.

In my Airforce days, A notice went up on the flight notice board about coming sporting event, headed "Intercourse Competition", maybe should have been "Inter - Course Competition", a series of sporting events between first and second year trainees. The notice was still remembered at our 50 year reunion in 2014.

Ian S C

Edited By Ian S C on 30/04/2019 14:23:10

One day walking down Manchester St in pre quake Christchurch I looked up at a shop sign, and at first glance it read Children swear, it was just the angle at the time, and as I got closer it resolved as Childrens Wear.

Ian S C