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Clinamen. No it's probably not in your dictionary. Edna Welthorpe came out with it the other day. It's a very clever word.

― N., Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Explain yourself.

― Ally C, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes.

― the pinefox, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What's to explain?

― N., Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Everything.

― Ally C, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

it means swerve!!: edna has read harold bloom of course and pinefox said he did but didn't (= my cheeky guess)!!

apophrades = my favourite revisionary ratio!! i am a gemini!!

― mark s, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think it's like when your stuck in a rut, trammelled by your influences and you make a deviation from the path in order to refresh your art.

― N., Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mark has spoiled this thread.

― Ally C, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's quite an ungainly word though, and looks as if it should be the name of medicinal chewing gum or summat.

― chris, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Have you done this N.?

― Ally C, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tredge!

― jel --, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It is part of my daily personal care regime.

― N., Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tmesis: the transposition of one word inside another. For example, "Abso-fuckin'-lutely". The only word in the English language to start 'Tm'.

― powertonevolume, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ooh, I like that one. Parasitic words.

― Mark C, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I thought a clinamen was all to do with Epicurean atomic theory.

― David, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I thought it was like a googly.

― Jonnie, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm not going to say.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yesterday my words of the day were tragedian and capricious. I love the sound of loquacious as well, even if it is not obscure.

― Evangeline, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

When I was 11 I used bombastic in a public speaking essay and a boy made fun of me for a long time after that. Even though Shaggy uses it!

― Evangeline, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Folderol!

― electric sound of jim, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

My favourite word at the moment is misanthrope.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 1 January 2004 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

pulchritudinous

There's something geeky and ugly about the word that really adds to its pulchritude.

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Thursday, 1 January 2004 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Fullcirculitude

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Thursday, 1 January 2004 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I kinda like erudite at the mo.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 1 January 2004 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

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