Postpositive Adjectives

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You're right, adoarns--realized that after I'd posted. I think my head was loosely attached that day.

reesetee: the construction you propose doesn't involve post-positive adjectives per se, but rather some syntactic ellipsis: "the best gift possible" → "the best gift that is possible," &c.

And yes, the title has been changed to match standard orthography :-).

Uh, Scotch is Scottish Whisky, which they just call Whisky when you're in Scotland. There is also Whiskey, which is typically Irish, although many places make it now.

Great list, adoarns! I'd suggest "possible," "imaginable," and "available" (as in "the best gift possible," "worst house imaginable," "quickest route available")--unless you're restricting the list to words that can only be used postpositively.

Not to be nitpicky, but shouldn't it be "postpositive"?

Cool list. Why do I feel like I need a shot of whiskey?

(And why can I shamefully never remember which is Irish and which is Scotch, without looking it up every single time?)

One might say that adoarns is a listmaker extraordinaire.

Many of the heraldry adjectives (rampant, cabossed, sinister and their many cousins) seem to belong to this category.

I always liked the synonymic "since time out of mind" instead of immemorial. Cool list!

Edit: I thought it was spelled "amok," not amuk...?

Bilby's right; moved to new list on non-"ly" adverbs.

Amuk's originally a verb and functions as an adverb in English. But I like the concept too, a worthy way to trip the list fantastic.

Now here's a list we've needed from time immemorial!