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    Quote Originally Posted by pmcgee View Post
    Had to look it up. Nice. tweogan: doubt | AlphabetSatchel's Blog
    Do you pronounce it 'twigan' ?
    The link gives Old English tweon=two ... I'm guessing that is pronounced "twin" ... --> twins
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    I found the word in one of those videos you put up earlier
    also has the pronounciation

    Quote Originally Posted by Bushmiller View Post
    . I would have had to look that up too if Paul hadn't supplied a link

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sawdust Maker View Post
    Shame
    I found the word in one of those videos you put up earlier
    also has the pronounciation
    Ahhhhhhh ... the "doubt" video.

    Fair suck of the sauce bottle - that was March, and I can't remember yesterday.

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    Default Vaccination

    Love it. Thanks SBS.

    Edward Jenner infected people with non-fatal cowpox in 1770 which protected against smallpox.

    latin vacca = cow.

    vaccination ~= "Cow injection"

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    Maybe a little off-topic, but I'd like to pin George Dubbayer up against a wall:

    "NOW, Mr President of the World's most powerful nation, making you the most powerful person on Earth - SPELL NUCULAR! How many "u"s are in it?? What's that? Only ONE?"

    I mean, did it not occur to ANY of his minders that he was an international embarrassment?
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    Quote Originally Posted by FenceFurniture View Post
    I mean, did it not occur to ANY of his minders that he was an international embarrassment?
    I think that was the least part of him they had to worry about
    I didn't particularly notice early on ... but remember the news kept mentioning him screwing up various phrases ... someone brought out a book ...

    But ... Supernanny would say ... "Stop it. That's not asseptable. It's not asseptable behaviour."

    Kinda leaves you feeling "vunnerable", don't it.

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    "Plagiarism" ... Plagiarism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    In the 1st century, the use of the Latin word plagiarius (literally kidnapper), to denote someone stealing someone else's work, was pioneered by Roman poet Martial ...

    This use of the word was introduced into English in 1601 by dramatist Ben Jonson, to describe as a plagiary someone guilty of literary theft.

    The derived form plagiarism was introduced into English around 1620.

    The Latin plagiārius, "kidnapper", and plagium, "kidnapping", has the root plaga ("snare", "net"), based on the Indo-European root *-plak, "to weave"
    Weave -> Net -> Kidnap -> Copy

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    Listened to that on Sunday afternoon. Agree, it was priceless!
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    Lucubrate.

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    On the ABC this morning ... I thought it was interesting.

    " To write in a scholarly fashion; produce scholarship."

    after ... "write or study, especially by night."

    because ... Origin: early 17th century: from Latin lucubrat- '(having) worked by lamplight', from the verb lucubrare
    A.Word.A.Day --lucubrate

    So starting with the scholar working at night by oil lamp ... to producing scholarship or thought ... maybe debate ... in general.

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    I must try to remember that one Mr. McGee!!

    A word i like is corybantic and a second is calumny.

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    I like COCCYX for hangman (or hang the butcher).

    the other one is cry/dry/fry/try, you can change you answer depending on what they have already chosen.

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    Quote Originally Posted by artme View Post
    A word i like is corybantic
    That's funny. Before I looked it up I was going to say ... wasn't Cory Bantic the dropkick who was arranging wild parties a year or so ago?

    and a second is calumny.
    ... don't look at me when you say that!

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