Wowee! Congrats, m! *not feeling so lonely anymore*

Bilby: Are you implying that I have emtnal dagmae? Bite yuor tonque!

Such precision in the achievement! I would not have accepted anything less.
*puts a gold star on mollusque's work*

Thanks, bilby, sionnach, and she! A couple of months ago I'd planned to make splendaciously my 10,000th word, but last week I discovered proceduralist. Given its suffix and my elaborate procedures for finding panvocalics, it seemed apt.

Splendaciously was 9,999, referring to reesetee's splendiferous and buckaroo was 10,001, for sionnach's banzai.

Happy 10,000th! (Sheesh, you're old.)

Yea, mollusque! way to go. What was your 10,000th word?

Oh, bilby, you are so dorll!

Wow, the third Wordie to scale the grand heights of 10000! Take a bow, moll-moll! Note: be careful, the air must be thin up there. You can see the mental damage incurred by reesetee and sionnach.

She--you might enjoy the discussion on verbing. Or try nouning...

Unless you've gotten all tricksy and changed your first and last name in the last week, we are most likely not siblings! But give my compliments to your sister on her word selection. (Is there a linguistic term for using an existing noun as a verb? Hm.)

Mollusque: Why don't you have a monovocalic polyglot list? I wanted to suggest the Icelandic word "framhaldssaga" which means SERIAL (story).

Sometimes (just like now) mollusque is like a silent mouse, who works when nobody is looking at him, and you would never know he's around... but then you find his traces right on the baseboard. In this case, the one on the left of the main page.

Thanks, oroboros! I mined that site when I made my Typewriter words list, but hadn't realized it was Chris Cole's.

Mollusque: you might be interested to look at taxonomy of wordplay.

Hi mollusque. Under your 'eeeee' tag cheerlessness has only four 'e's. How about cheerlessnesses?

I have a question for you...

mollusque, I'm really appreciating your help on my list. Great words!

argh, thanks for catching my typo on 'multivalency'. I re-posted.

Pro Z: The translation workplace

Thank you very much in Hebrew is:

תודה רבה
Todah rabah

todah rabah!

thanks for the hebrew... what does that mean?

-erica

Mollusque: congratulations on reaching 1111 comments - a milestone worth celebrating. I can say with certainty that you are the only wordie for whom over 25% of contributed words are panvocalics.

Keep 'em coming!

I don't know of a single word (mononym) for such words (e.g., billowy). They're called "alphabetical words" by Dmitri Borgmann (Language on Vacation, 1965).

Maybe they should be called "alphaliterals", since "alpha" can mean "alphabetic", as in putting a list into "alpha order".

Just a thought - do you know of a word that describes a word that has all its letters in alphabetical order?

Gosh, never come across that before.

'pologies for questioning your listing of it - I searched the plural and was offered it as first lister.

Sorry, gangerh. Panvocalics are words that contain all the vowels. The definition is under panvocalic (I fixed my comment on Treeseed's profile to link there). My list is here.

What are panvocalics please and how come you haven't listed it?

I love Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle.

No, I have no pre-existing lists. These words are just in my head and I am free-associating.

Thank you for the encouragement, Mollusque. I have been enjoying myself a lot. I'm a bit of a shut-in at the moment and this has been a boon.

Congrats! You're cruisin', all right. :-)

Thanks, yarb! It was misconjugatedly.

Congratulations on your 5000th word!

As far as I knew, I was just French for "mollusk". Or I should say, "mollusk" is English for "mollusque"; the French word is older.

Do you realise you are a distant cousin of goose fat?

My goodness! Mollusk power! Enjoyin' your Wordie contributions...

Nice to meet you, mollusque. I've got a feeling we'll bump into each other quite a lot.