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Before there was Wordie, there was... Notepad. Last night I fired up my old laptop for the first time in a couple years. It was a trip down memory lane, for I discovered that this machine (once presumed dead) was in fact still quite alive, and held many files I had forgotten about. One of those files was a text document holding the following list of words. Guess I've been a logophile for a while.
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ablution   has been listed 36 times with 2 comments
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akimbo   has been listed 112 times with 2 comments
aubade   has been listed 28 times with 1 comment
bricolage   has been listed 37 times with 2 comments
cabal   has been listed 54 times with 5 comments
callipygian   has been listed 157 times with 9 comments
caveat   has been listed 63 times with 0 comments
chimera   has been listed 91 times with 0 comments
defenestration   has been listed 158 times with 23 comments
denigrate   has been listed 21 times with 0 comments
dulcet   has been listed 45 times with 4 comments
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eschaton   has been listed 19 times with 0 comments
exsanguinate   has been listed 27 times with 1 comment
floccinaucinihilipilification   has been listed 82 times with 9 comments
fogram   has been listed 2 times with 2 comments
frangible   has been listed 35 times with 2 comments
gadfly   has been listed 21 times with 0 comments
giglet   has been listed 4 times with 2 comments
gimcrack   has been listed 26 times with 0 comments
habitué   has been listed 3 times with 0 comments
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imbroglio   has been listed 86 times with 0 comments
ingenue   has been listed 42 times with 3 comments
junta   has been listed 25 times with 1 comment
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manse   has been listed 7 times with 0 comments
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misandry   has been listed 14 times with 1 comment
omphaloskepsis   has been listed 52 times with 1 comment
osculation   has been listed 8 times with 1 comment
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pareidolia   has been listed 25 times with 8 comments
pied-à-terre   has been listed 7 times with 3 comments
pistolero   has been listed 3 times with 0 comments
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sardoodledom   has been listed 10 times with 1 comment
scion   has been listed 30 times with 8 comments
solipsism   has been listed 110 times with 32 comments
somniferous   has been listed 16 times with 0 comments
souse   has been listed 7 times with 1 comment
spoony   has been listed 8 times with 1 comment
stratagem   has been listed 13 times with 0 comments
sublunary   has been listed 15 times with 0 comments
syncretic   has been listed 30 times with 1 comment
tatterdemalion   has been listed 49 times with 1 comment
thaumaturgy   has been listed 47 times with 1 comment
vade mecum   has been listed 15 times with 1 comment
verisimilitude   has been listed 181 times with 5 comments
wheedle   has been listed 32 times with 1 comment
zabernism   has been listed 4 times with 1 comment
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9 months ago reesetee said:

Ouch. Those things hurt. And they always seemed to have been made of some carcinogenic material.

9 months ago uselessness said:

Yes! That was the floppiest part! I also had a bad habit of bouncing mouse trackballs around the house.

9 months ago trivet said:

Did you ever take the little disc out of the floppy and play with it? That was fun, but oh-so-against the rules...

9 months ago reesetee said:

Right! They had a latch to keep them from escaping! Ah, the memories....

9 months ago uselessness said:

I had more fun playing with the little latch on the floppy drive door, than the floppy itself. Later I would take a liking to spinning CDs around my index finger.

9 months ago reesetee said:

Oh yeah, they were floppy. And if you flopped them too much, they retaliated by not ever working again.

9 months ago trivet said:

They totally flopped!

More of a flap, really. I remember twiddling with them a lot.

9 months ago seanahan said:

In the future, there will be a web site for doing every possible exact task.

Oh wait...

9 months ago jennarenn said:

Floppies!!! Did the 5" ones actually flop? I don't quite remember....

9 months ago reesetee said:

What?? Handwriting? How quaint.

9 months ago oroboros said:

I had to transfer all mine off of an actual notepad! :o)

9 months ago reesetee said:

Love it. A pre-Wordie Wordie list. Makes you want to go back and dig through that old pile of floppies....

No, not really.

9 months ago uselessness said:

The "date modified" on the file was February 2005. I wish I remembered the origins of this list, all I know for sure is that I compiled myself it for fun back in college. Who knew there would one day be a web site for doing exactly that (only better)?

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