Thank you for adding some verses to my list.

I greatly enjoy reading your lists and your comments.

Thanks, gangerh! It seems to happen about once a year. See mollusque baugh.

I played with your name. 

Ah. Okay. Neither did I, actually.

Yes, I mean I didn't recognize it at first as one of my own.

C_b, that's your 20,000th word. Some kind of prehistoric Italian, I think. ;-)

I didn't either. Are those the 20,000th words for each of us?
*had no idea about devincenzia, which sounds like an Italian surname*

Edit: Oops. Just saw the later comments on reesetee's profile. Sorry... :)

Haha! I didn't know you were tagging them--great idea!

Thanks, reesetee and c_b. FYI, leagues joins swim and devincenzia on the 20K list.

Happy round number!

... remember when Wordie was just a teeny-tiny wonderland, and we all thought stpeter's list was incredibly long at 3,000 words? *marvels*

Another member of the 20,000+ Club! Congrats!

20 big ones, moll! A lot of panvocalic work has gone into that :-) Well done.

mollusque, in a work-related (I swear) conversation today, someone said that clams can use their pseudopod to "walk" along surfaces, as well as being capable of locomotion through ... um... squirting stuff. Is this true? Please tell me more about clams. (Perhaps I should have posted this on the clam page.)

thanks for the suggestions on liminal words list

a little gift for you

autotomaton is great :-)

Hi bilby! The phenomenon is called autotomy, but I'm not aware of a blanket name for animals capable of it. I thought it might be autotomizer, but that turns out to be the name of the muscle that contracts to cause the self-amputation. How about autotomaton?

Moll, is there a name for the type of creature that jettisons a part of its body when threatened, usually to serve as a decoy? I startled a gecko some months ago and its tail wiggled on the floor for a time after the reptile decamped. Poor Stumpy :-(

Just to let you know, I've decided OCSJTS had better have a list of its own, to which you've been added as a contributor.

If only I could remember! I know it had something to do with the Latin root of mollusk and a word that involved goose fat. I can't find or recall the word even though I randomed it quite recently.

But I'm not suggesting you're a goose, moll ;-)

Mollusque,
What do "w-d-720" and similar tags mean?

Have a lurk see?

See lurk.

I believe Wordie is almost 3 years old now--right, John?

Hard to imagine, isn't it? As per Pro's suggestion, my registration email shows I joined Wordie on 11 December 2006. I am almost 2!

The comment that from memory was my first shows as 'about 1 year ago'. My guess is that it was in about February 2007. Now that lists are named rather than numbered it's harder to pinpoint the chronology. But I know I didn't make a list other than the default one until October 2007.

How old are we? 2?

congrats in advance, mollusque. :)

I have a gift for you on facebook, my friend.

mollusque! I can't believe your facebook link is broken! See faq.

I can only dream of having added so many wonderful words.

*gazes sycophantically, but you don't notice*

Thank you for the warm welcome back, mollusque.

Hi. Would you like to be on Identify the Wordie #2? You'll need to email identifythewordie@yours.com with your Wordie nick and the single word that best describes you. Cheers!

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.