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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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pareidolia   has been listed 41 times with 8 comments

pied-à-terre   has been listed 8 times with 3 comments

pistolero   has been listed 3 times with 0 comments

misandry   has been listed 17 times with 1 comment

giglet   has been listed 6 times with 2 comments

zabernism   has been listed 6 times with 1 comment

sardoodledom   has been listed 13 times with 3 comments

fogram   has been listed 5 times with 3 comments

requiem   has been listed 71 times with 1 comment

denigrate   has been listed 30 times with 0 comments

ebullient   has been listed 107 times with 1 comment

sublunary   has been listed 19 times with 0 comments

junta   has been listed 30 times with 1 comment

scion   has been listed 42 times with 8 comments

syncretic   has been listed 41 times with 2 comments

wheedle   has been listed 41 times with 4 comments

thaumaturgy   has been listed 66 times with 1 comment

cabal   has been listed 80 times with 6 comments

frangible   has been listed 50 times with 2 comments

vade mecum   has been listed 22 times with 3 comments

milksop   has been listed 13 times with 0 comments

pablum   has been listed 34 times with 0 comments

spoony   has been listed 15 times with 2 comments

osculation   has been listed 14 times with 2 comments

ingenue   has been listed 57 times with 3 comments

imbroglio   has been listed 119 times with 3 comments

manse   has been listed 17 times with 19 comments

harbinger   has been listed 104 times with 3 comments

caveat   has been listed 85 times with 0 comments

gimcrack   has been listed 34 times with 1 comment

habitué   has been listed 4 times with 0 comments

ablution   has been listed 51 times with 5 comments

aubade   has been listed 36 times with 3 comments

somniferous   has been listed 23 times with 0 comments

tatterdemalion   has been listed 91 times with 2 comments

chimera   has been listed 138 times with 3 comments

longueur   has been listed 19 times with 0 comments

bricolage   has been listed 51 times with 3 comments

stratagem   has been listed 19 times with 0 comments

eschaton   has been listed 26 times with 1 comment

verisimilitude   has been listed 239 times with 6 comments

souse   has been listed 12 times with 7 comments

solipsism   has been listed 151 times with 37 comments

omphaloskepsis   has been listed 82 times with 6 comments

gadfly   has been listed 30 times with 0 comments

floccinaucinihilipilification   has been listed 110 times with 10 comments

exsanguinate   has been listed 36 times with 1 comment

dulcet   has been listed 68 times with 5 comments

defenestration   has been listed 205 times with 26 comments

callipygian   has been listed 223 times with 24 comments

akimbo   has been listed 129 times with 4 comments

aglet   has been listed 43 times with 2 comments

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over 2 years ago reesetee said:

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

over 2 years ago uselessness said:

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

over 2 years 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...

over 2 years ago reesetee said:

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

over 2 years 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.

over 2 years ago reesetee said:

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

over 2 years ago trivet said:

They totally flopped!

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

over 2 years ago seanahan said:

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

Oh wait...

over 2 years ago jennarenn said:

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

over 2 years ago reesetee said:

What?? Handwriting? How quaint.

over 2 years ago oroboros said:

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

over 2 years 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.

over 2 years 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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