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on mon, VanishedOne said:
"A Japanese crest: roughly their equivalent of a coat of arms." more...
on features, VanishedOne said:
"I could have sworn that feature actually existed at some point... I'm not confusing it with list ordering, am I?" more...
on bugs, VanishedOne said:
"A very minor quibble: on the Comments page, both the page title and the bold text above the search box say e.g. 'Past comments, 100 through 200', but..." more...
on infamy, VanishedOne said:
"Since nobody has quoted it yet: 'Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me...'" more...
on histoplasmosis, VanishedOne said:
"Scientific American: 'Now drug regulators say a class of medicines called..." more...
on hugotontheonbiquiffinarians, VanishedOne said:
"I'm in agreement with this person: 'What did they meet about?..." more...
on advertising, VanishedOne said:
"The image ads. seem to be very seldom relevant compared to the textual ones, though. The most word-related one I've seen recently was the one about..." more...
on the list http://www.orbitmerchantsolutions.com, VanishedOne said:
"Maybe you have to tell them your problems to get their solutions: a kind of agony aunt for credit card processing.

Or maybe all they really..." more...
on the list http://www.orbitmerchantsolutions.com, VanishedOne said:
"...Once they spam Wordie, our favourite thing..." more...
on behead, VanishedOne said:
"I'm not sure whether WeirdNet thinks every cut to the head is a beheading, or whether of should read off." more...
on the list Wordie Paradox, VanishedOne said:
"I jut noticed that test is producing basically the same behaviour (needing to be entered into the URL capitalised), but all the lowercase..." more...
on features, VanishedOne said:
"Links made with square brackets seem not to work in private notes, though." more...
on the list http://www.orbitmerchantsolutions.com, VanishedOne said:
"Secret domain registration begs guessing...

We haven't yet managed to supplant the domain itself; currently a Google search for..." more...
on the list http://www.orbitmerchantsolutions.com, VanishedOne said:
"I see the domain was registered through domainsbyproxy.com: surely the mark of a reputable business to entrust with credit card processing.

I..." more...
on ague, VanishedOne said:
"Can this refer to a kind of diacritic, or is WeirdNet acting up again? I can find the ocasional apparently supportive reference, e.g. to <a..." more...
on eleutherarch, VanishedOne said:
"I just checked the OED definition: 'The chief of an (imaginary) secret society called "the Eleutheri".' (The Peacock citation is 1817, and the other..." more...
on bugs, VanishedOne said:
"That was reported in a couple of comments two months ago. It doesn't turn up every time one adds a word from the 'Nobody is listing' page;..." more...
on bugs, VanishedOne said:
"Based on the few I tried, might that be an ampersand problem?" more...
on ensheavement, VanishedOne said:
"The closest I can find in OED2 is ensheathing." more...
on unwanted, VanishedOne said:
"Design Observer: 'If working within limitations is one of the ways designers..." more...
on philosophical wool, VanishedOne said:
"I'm guessing this was named back when philosophical often implied alchemical." more...
on bugs, VanishedOne said:
"Has something changed in the character encoding? I'd have noticed if <a..." more...
on the list ------bug-----------------delete me!, VanishedOne said:
"Cloud view seems even more broken: it stops the comments and word-count displaying." more...
on viropiracy, VanishedOne said:
"Futurismic:..." more...
on monowheel, VanishedOne said:
"See citation on gerbling." more...
on gerbling, VanishedOne said:
"DRB on monowheels: 'Now you need just one good..." more...
on lyncury, VanishedOne said:
"A synonym for ligure." more...
on ligure, VanishedOne said:
"'Some precious stone' is the OED's terse definition." more...
on ounce, VanishedOne said:
"The OED marks its general 'medium-sized member of the cat family' definition as archaic, but not the specific definition 'the snow leopard,..." more...
on adulterine, VanishedOne said:
"Well, I've actually only got those two so far.

Let's make it an open list, then: http://wordie.org/lists/16088. All..." more...
on nacirema, VanishedOne said:
"The semi-spoof 'Resources On the Nacirema People' page and the unrelated <a..." more...
on adulterine, VanishedOne said:
"Slowly but surely I'm building up a vocabulary of dubious-sounding but actually innocuous words with which to confuse innocent ladies who might be..." more...
on cloudy lemonade, VanishedOne said:
"The 7-up-like stuff is what I've heard called pub lemonade to differentiate it from actual lemonade. It's not the beverage of the whole nation,..." more...
on t9onyms, VanishedOne said:
"Googling suggests it's to do with texting.

http://brilliantdays.com/t9onym/" more...
on jamais vu, VanishedOne said:
"What page?" more...
on rufkm, VanishedOne said:
"This spambot seems to have been made by some derivative of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation." more...
on vespertine, VanishedOne said:
"The grey definitions are supplied by WordNet, and vespertine appears not to be in their database." more...
on what is the airspeed velocit..., VanishedOne said:
"One site added the question to its account creation procedure, and got a fair variety of answers." more...
on unicornea farinata, VanishedOne said:
"Presumably the Googlebot can't find the page unless it finds a link on a page it already knows about." more...
on fuel-air explosive, VanishedOne said:
"WordNet as it appears in dictionary.com gives a definition for both this..." more...
on beaklike, VanishedOne said:
"Learnt from WeirdNet: for usage see its treatment of beak." more...
on raven, VanishedOne said:
"For those wondering, the poem must be a reference to Hempel's Paradox.

I..." more...
on harassment, VanishedOne said:
"I wouldn't have said harassment was a feeling, which is what the top two WeirdNet definitions imply." more...
on pursuivant, VanishedOne said:
"As in the heralds Bluemantle Pursuivant, Portcullis Pursuivant, Rouge Croix Pursuivant..." more...
on the tag unremarkable, VanishedOne said:
"Isn't there something self-defeating about tagging a word 'unremarkable'? Especially when only one word is so tagged." more...
on tetrapod, VanishedOne said:
"Concrete tetrapods are supposed to slow coastal erosion." more...
on shakespearean insult service..., VanishedOne said:
"Now there's a list idea..." more...
on advertise, VanishedOne said:
"Early to bed,
Early to rise,
Work like hell,
And advertise.
(Attributed to <a..." more...
on depthless, VanishedOne said:
"Google is showing an ad for a dating service. I wonder which definition it based the keyword match on." more...
on retributivism, VanishedOne said:
"The Brooks Blog: 'The argument appears to be to support an..." more...
on subgommy, VanishedOne said:
"Grand-Old-Manny, but falling short of an überGOM. Spotted at <a..." more...
on jehu, VanishedOne said:
"Off the top my my head I think 'Jesus' may be Latin via Greek from the original Hebrew (Aramaic?)." more...
on grundel, VanishedOne said:
"Although the OED and dictionary.com know it only as a groundling fish." more...
on sicker, VanishedOne said:
"Besides being a comparative, apparently this is an archaic/dialect way of saying 'certainly' or 'safe'/'make safe' and, says Webster's, a mining term..." more...
on gonfalon, VanishedOne said:
"A variant of gonfanon." more...
on fanon, VanishedOne said:
"According to this item on gonfalon, it's also 'a shoulder cape worn by the Pope during..." more...
on barber, VanishedOne said:
"WeirdNet, being disembodied, no doubt has its own priorities." more...
on slot, VanishedOne said:
"The Mystery of WeirdNet is an infinite and inexhausible resource, a thing illimitably unfathomable and therefore, like the Library of Babel, beyond..." more...
on slot, VanishedOne said:
"Okay, thanks to WeirdNet I'm learning something new. But could someone possibly tell me what the definition means?" more...
on lemon, VanishedOne said:
"The last WeirdNet definition is: 'a man-made object taken as a whole'.

Why? Because the second-to-last is a subcategory of artifact." more...
on honorificabilitudinity, VanishedOne said:
"So De Vulgari Eloquentia incorporates a sort of Renaissance Wordlustitude?

What goes around..." more...
on like, VanishedOne said:
"The state of being AWAR?

Acutally, the OED lists awar as Old English and one of many..." more...
on kleptoparasite, VanishedOne said:
"Curious Expeditions: 'Like vultures, ravens often act as kleptoparasites, (parasitism by theft)..." more...
on vexation, VanishedOne said:
"It's not that there's anything inaccurate about this WeirdNet definition; it just leaves me wondering what other kinds of irritation there are." more...
on van, VanishedOne said:
"I thought WeirdNet 1 was dodgy until I saw 2." more...
on buns, VanishedOne said:
"The Curse of the WeirdNet Plural strikes again." more...
on faq, VanishedOne said:
"Pedantic aside: Wordie declares itself to be XHTML (albeit served, yes, as text/html), and therefore tags technically ought to be lowercase:

<a..." more...
on erysipelatous, VanishedOne said:
"<a..." more...
on emilytherese's profile, VanishedOne said:
"Salutations.

I'm just dropping by to let you know that the 'also on' thing expects your Blogger ID number (<a..." more...
on adûnaic, VanishedOne said:
"See plain Adunaic for a note on Adûnaic/Adunaic." more...
on rohirric, VanishedOne said:
"Lalaith claims: 'Rohirric has never been used by Tolkien. It seems that..." more...
on mokita, VanishedOne said:
"So how do you actually use this word, if 'That's mokita' is automatically self-falsifying? Do you have to stick to talking in general terms..." more...
on paradiastole, VanishedOne said:
"Spiked: '...This first becomes clear in Runciman’s..." more...
on punycode, VanishedOne said:
"Google Blogoscoped: 'Domains using the full character spectrum aren’t really..." more...
on or, VanishedOne said:
"It's hard to find a good citation for 'or' as a verb, but Googling produces quite a few cases of <a..." more...
on Wordie's profile, VanishedOne said:
"Wordie's a matryoshka!

That, or space is deeply warped here." more...
on spank bank, VanishedOne said:
"Wordie is it." more...
on plumbous, VanishedOne said:
"There are quite a few words where the WeirdNet 'more' button is like that; it's been mentioned on bugs, I think. I don't know whether it's their..." more...
on spank bank, VanishedOne said:
"Too late, then: the dreaded word porn strikes again..." more...
on bugs, VanishedOne said:
"yarb's must be the second-best-worded bug report yet, just slightly behind 'The apparent loss of woolded bumpkin is particularly grievous'." more...
on spank bank, VanishedOne said:
"'How much worse...?' Run for cover; you must know people in this place are liable to take that as a challenge, or at least a list..." more...
on parhelion, VanishedOne said:
"Another WeirdNet infinite loop, defining this is terms of a parhelic circle and parhelic in terms of a perhelion." more...
on parhelic, VanishedOne said:
"Environmental Graffiti: 'The parhelic..." more...
on circumzenithal, VanishedOne said:
"Environmental Graffiti: 'Appearing like..." more...
on fondling, VanishedOne said:
"WeirdNet (1 & 2) has sex on the brain again." more...
on deoxyribose nucleic acid, VanishedOne said:
"I imagine it was abandoned in favour of deoxyribonucleic acid." more...
on brocken spectre, VanishedOne said:
"Nonist: 'This 200 foot high shadow figure lurking about the..." more...
on basonym, VanishedOne said:
"I only managed to view the rest of my own comment as red, so if you saw everything red it may be down to different browsers' handling..." more...
on basonym, VanishedOne said:
"Just look at the page source.

Wordie doesn't automatically add closing tags.

Edit: hmm, it seems I can't turn the..." more...
on asperger's syndrome, VanishedOne said:
"It's not just a question of real/unreal instantiation. Any coherent description of combined characteristics is a 'real' combination you can give..." more...
on data mist, VanishedOne said:
"Ben Goldacre: 'The story follows a standard..." more...
on fingerspitzengefühl, VanishedOne said:
"Lingwë: 'It’s not in the Random House Unabridged Dictionary,..." more...
on fingerspitzengef�hl, VanishedOne said:
"This is another misadventure in character encodings which I'm about to ghost. See Fingerspitzengefühl." more...
on teleologist, VanishedOne said:
"Most of us would say consequentialist, though." more...
on bugs, VanishedOne said:
"Is anyone else finding that /comments?o=100 is now producing a 500 Application Error?" more...
on he, VanishedOne said:
"Supposedly WeirdNet just doesn't do pronouns. Maybe they're too common for its notice." more...
on shipper, VanishedOne said:
"The practice that gave us Spikeydomeshipping must have something going for it. (List,..." more...
on lanx, VanishedOne said:
"Looting Matters: 'Tom Flynn reminded me of the "Risley..." more...
on MiaLuthien's profile, VanishedOne said:
"Try the Meta list and the meta tag page for the rest of the manual. (<a..." more...
on wordology, VanishedOne said:
"Did someone not fancy 'logology'?" more...
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