Your new favourite word
- bambooneedle
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Your new favourite word
Mine's 'melange'.
I never used it before but I've been trying to work it into things I say lately just to break it in, like "this messageboard is a melange of characters" and "the main drag in Newtown is a melange of cool shops"... It's versatile and I think can be a good ice breaker.
So... what's yours?
I never used it before but I've been trying to work it into things I say lately just to break it in, like "this messageboard is a melange of characters" and "the main drag in Newtown is a melange of cool shops"... It's versatile and I think can be a good ice breaker.
So... what's yours?
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I'm trying to use 'proverbial' as much as possible.
(Inspired by Loudon Wainwright III's old ditty:
Whatever happened to you? Whatever happened to us?
We missed the proverbial boat, the train and the plane and the bus
Well push came to shove and we fell out of love and we tore each other apart
Yeah love is grand but I can't understand why you broke my proverbial heart)
(Inspired by Loudon Wainwright III's old ditty:
Whatever happened to you? Whatever happened to us?
We missed the proverbial boat, the train and the plane and the bus
Well push came to shove and we fell out of love and we tore each other apart
Yeah love is grand but I can't understand why you broke my proverbial heart)
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It's Danish, of course, and right up Cope's proverbial alley!verbal gymnastics wrote:A word I always try to slip into conversation!Copenhagen Fan wrote:Røvkusse
How do you pronounce it and what does it mean?
Pronunciation: It's three syllables, the first two stressed. I would break it down into an imaginary French-sounding "reuve" and then half a "cous-cous" and end it with an appropriate "eh": "reuve-cous-eh". Hope that gives you a general idea of how to say it. A straight translation would be "asscunt". (And if any kids are reading this I may as well point out that Santa does not exist.)
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