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I’ve just learned we are operating an ‘evacuteria’ at a Sudanese airport.
Nightjar
Posts : 113155 Karma : 921 Join date : 2018-05-05
Subject: Re: New words Tue Apr 25, 2023 7:52 pm
Well, it's not new to me, but I'd urge everyone to to look up the word "granfalloon".
Very apt for this day and age.
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cosmictanya
Posts : 5838 Karma : 234 Join date : 2019-08-14
Subject: Re: New words Tue Apr 25, 2023 11:18 pm
I’ve looked it up. I’ll apply it liberally from now on.
Fangirl Three
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Subject: Re: New words Wed Apr 26, 2023 7:53 am
The newest word I've learnt is 'declinature'. That's the act of declining someone something (like a bank account or a card transaction).
I've been using 'declination' in that context, but apparently 'declinature' is the correct legal term.
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Butterfield
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Subject: Re: New words Sat Feb 03, 2024 2:54 pm
malapropism /ˈmaləprəpɪz(ə)m/ noun the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one, often with an amusing effect (e.g. ‘dance a flamingo ’ instead of flamenco ).
Fangirl Three
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Subject: Re: New words Sat Feb 03, 2024 3:17 pm
I learnt that at school. It's named after Mrs Malaprop, a character in some play, who keeps using malapropisms.
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cosmictanya
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Subject: Re: New words Mon Feb 05, 2024 12:30 am
Butterfield wrote:
malapropism /ˈmaləprəpɪz(ə)m/ noun the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one, often with an amusing effect (e.g. ‘dance a flamingo ’ instead of flamenco ).
Every soap has a Mrs Malaprop. Mrs Mangel, Hilda Ogden and her ‘muriel’, Dot Cotton - or maybe Ethel was more so. But they pretty much all rely on it as a comedic device.
cosmictanya
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Subject: Re: New words Wed Apr 10, 2024 6:41 pm
Couldn’t find a thread, can’t make one.
I have never been able to pronounce tribunal properly.
In my head it’s tribuneral, and that’s what I think it should be.
I find it so tricky I never use the word at all. I always notice its use by others.