Wordie: Question: Comments

Comment by telofy, 11 days ago

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:56:15 +0000

I got a question, too. Does anyone know a movie or a series, where lots of seldom words and constructions are used?

Comment by skipvia, 8 months ago

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:00:33 +0000

What is a question, anyway? Oh...wait. WeirdNet has taken care of that for us.

Comment by reesetee, 8 months ago

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 21:46:40 +0000

And what about the appendix? Who needs that?

Not the book kind.

Comment by Treeseed, 8 months ago

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:06:22 +0000

Lee press-on ears

Comment by John, 8 months ago

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 23:21:47 +0000

Kind of like neuticles, but for your head?

Comment by yarb, 8 months ago

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 23:18:59 +0000

You could buy fake ears for that.

Comment by Treeseed, 8 months ago

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 23:01:46 +0000

Yarb, where would we put the sparkly, dangly stuff?

Comment by yarb, 8 months ago

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:40:55 +0000

I've got a question too: do we really need ears, or could we get by with just holes in the sides of our head?

Comment by mollusque, 8 months ago

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:07:41 +0000

Great idea, Julia, to use this page to post questions. Here's one I've been pondering. What word has the most independent derivations? For example:

bear, the ursine mammal (from OE bera);
bear, barley (from OE bere);
bear, to carry (from Sanskrit bhar-).

Comment by uselessness, 8 months ago

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:01:51 +0000

Are there Latin prefixes we can use for any of these? Particularly Quiznos? I need a word for that.

Comment by julia, 8 months ago

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:00:48 +0000

yarb, glad i'm not the only one taking surreptitious whiffs of the new hardbacks at work.. er.. ; )

Comment by gangerh, 8 months ago

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:56:40 +0000

so what's a bibliosmochondriac then?

Comment by yarb, 8 months ago

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:53:28 +0000

I enjoy sniffing books, who doesn't?

Comment by julia, 8 months ago

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:51:19 +0000

wow! wordies truly are the bee's knees! : ) (mind if i use bibliosmophiliac? not into fetishes....................)

Comment by sionnach, 8 months ago

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:42:33 +0000

bibliosmophiliac?

osmophilia is a word, meaning 'the love of or fondness for various odors.' So maybe one can just stick the prefix 'biblio' on there.

The word osmolagnia also exists, and refers to *erotic* excitement derived from odors.

Comment by julia, 8 months ago

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:32:22 +0000

might i be terribly bold and co-opt this word to put forth a question to all those illustrious and knowledgeable wordies out there?

i'd like to know if there is a word to describe a person who loves the smell of books..?