News vs. Newspeak?

[evilC]

The Times want you to 'save a word'. I thought I'd mention it here, as it seems a peculiarly OTF kind of topic.

[beak]

News vs. Newspeak?

save a word? i've just taken compossible and fubsy down to the barn and drowned them in a bucket.

[Mumpo]

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Dispense with? Those are some of the best 24 words I've heard.

[Wyatt Earp]

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I think "apodeictic", "malison" and "mansuetude" are still used occasionally. Toro probably uses the first one all the time.

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

News vs. Newspeak?

I'm sure "agrestic" could be saved, if only the away fans could build it into their chants at Portman Road.

[Sam]

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Embrangle is a magnificent word.

[evilC]

News vs. Newspeak?

SamLKelly wrote:

Embrangle is a magnificent word.

I thought so, too.

Compossible, malison and olid are all excellent, too.

[WOM]

News vs. Newspeak?

Agrestic is the name of the fictional California town in the show Weeds, about a suburban housewife who makes ends meet by selling marijuana (and which is quite good).

[beak]

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compossible is an awful word. it has the ring of godawful corporate buzz-word about it (pedants: don't pop up and tell me it is an ancient and cromulent word, i know and don't care).

my favourite was skirr, by the way. a proper northern sounding word.