Kumquat

Quincunx

Clearly this is on-topic for this thread ;-)

Steve

The word "clearly" itself - I've only ever heard it used correctly by a Maths lecturer at University.

Richard

Sputnik

David

aardvark

Thought you were going to give us all a recipe for Kumquat marmalade - just ripped a Kumquat tree out of my orchard :)

Karen

Hmmm...

Shrdlu ?

What about nuclear. Why does Bush pronounce it nucular?

I just had to look it up. Apparently an advanced programming language that one day might allow a computer to put a series of blocks in a box...

HOLDING AND PUT IT INTO THE BOX.

Presumably there are now programmers all over AFL swooning with excitement.

The lord preserve us from computer geeks. I'm off to play proper engineering with gears, sprockets and bearings.

;-)

David

Tsk....nope.

I was meaning the Michael Bentine creation ;-)

ARE HOLDING AND PUT IT INTO THE BOX.

AM HOLDING.

So someone's re-inveted LISP, Prolog, SmallTalk etc and are talking blocks instead if fish, chips & and peas, or Likes(Mary, John).....

Wheel being re-inveted, *again*!

Richard

my favourite is " treacle "

Curmudgeonly

is a word that always makes me feel iritable

I particularily enjoy to ethnically correct words Eejit craic both defy accurate definition in english but everybody knows more or less the meaning. I'll should also add panache - a french form of Hot Pot Derek Kato 200TDi Disco

Karen Gallagher uttered summat worrerz funny about:

So you would have probably had enough to make a nice moist Kumquat treacle sponge unless you curmudgeonly decline.

:-)

Lee D

|| Quincunx

One of mine too. Along with

Threnody Rhodomontade Sesquipedalian

Dunno wot any of 'em mean, but vey sahnd brilliant.

Oh, and Episiotomy. And I know what that means.

As you have just made my eyes water

Vasectomy

Lizzy

|| I particularily enjoy to ethnically correct words || Eejit || craic || both defy accurate definition in english but everybody knows more or || less the meaning.

The Welsh have a wonderful word - Hiraeth. It's main meaning is homesickness, the tug on the heart from a homeland far away, but it's also a longing and a sadness for something lost or distant. You know it when you feel it. There's no English word for it, same as with Craic.

|| Richard Brookman wrote: || ||| ||| Oh, and Episiotomy. And I know what that means. ||| || || As you have just made my eyes water || || Vasectomy || || Lizzy

Touché!

Cthulhu

Steve