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RE: Word Fight - 4/28/2006 5:59:26 PM

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Sorry Tikkiee, but I have a great word...I'm reading Ahba's Wife...

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RE: Word Fight - 4/28/2006 6:00:41 PM

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That's what I get for not proofreading...Ahab's Wife

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RE: Word Fight - 4/28/2006 6:48:11 PM

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quote:

incarnadine

HA!!!

the color red; or if you want me to be precise lol........blood red
"pyxis"

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RE: Word Fight - 4/28/2006 8:59:07 PM

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Pyxis is a constellation and in Greek it means "box." If it has another meaning in English, I don't know it.

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RE: Word Fight - 4/29/2006 12:42:47 AM

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Oh great. I can't sleep and there's no word.

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RE: Word Fight - 4/29/2006 5:10:40 AM

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Nope, that was it LAM. Your turn

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RE: Word Fight - 4/29/2006 2:59:57 PM

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"preconcertion"

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RE: Word Fight - 4/29/2006 5:30:32 PM

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I think it would be "the act of agreeing"

"copasetic"- (my favorite song)

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RE: Word Fight - 4/29/2006 5:43:06 PM

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That's slang. Am I the only person who thinks we should eliminate slang words? If everyone else wants to include them, it's OK with me, but my vote would be no.

Edited to add: Anyway, on that note, the next word is "argot."

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RE: Word Fight - 4/29/2006 8:05:46 PM

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argot

LMAO thats the way a certain group of people talk

"Kaapenaar"

On a side note, I agree. Let's leave slang out of it :)

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RE: Word Fight - 4/29/2006 9:58:22 PM

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Didn't know "kaapenaar," and I can't imagine too many people know it outside of Africa, but it's in OED.

I guess you go again, unless someone knows "kaapenaar."

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RE: Word Fight - 4/29/2006 10:22:47 PM

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I never knew that word was slang, but I checked it out and you guys are right. Origin undeterminable, says the American Heritage Dictionary. I couldn't find it in the OED, but mine's old.

I think kaapenaar is somebody from the South African coast. It might be a South African ethnic group, but I'm not sure. I had actually never heard the word before last night, but I had dinner with some African history scholars and they used the term. I'm inferring the definition I'm putting here. Hell yeah human rights conferences.

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RE: Word Fight - 4/30/2006 4:14:13 AM

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I agree. Let's leave out slang.

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RE: Word Fight - 4/30/2006 7:18:29 AM

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quote:

I think kaapenaar is somebody from the South African coast. It might be a South African ethnic group, but I'm not sure. I had actually never heard the word before last night, but I had dinner with some African history scholars and they used the term. I'm inferring the definition I'm putting here. Hell yeah human rights conferences.

Kaapenaar is a South African fish