And the next student who pulls this thread up in a F451 search is in for a surprise!

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Originally posted by Braling II:
The New York Times Everyday Reader's Dictionary of Misunderstood, Misused, Mispronounced Words (a great resource!) makes it even clearer defining an acronym as a PRONOUNCEABLE word.

Well, I'll be danged - the things you learn from dealing with this Bradbury crew!

I shall soon set those sailors straight!

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Originally posted by biplane1:

V/R I am stumped here
PN2 S This is a rank, although I am not familiar with what Naval rank this might be.

Elucidate me!

Elucidate is a good word.

Very respectfully (it's the closing line of an email or other communication to a ranking person)

Personnel Specialist (it means I do paperwork) (and fight the dreaded Hun!)

Well, since we're here on this part of the rabbit trail, to give you an idea how much fun it is to ride the aforementioned New York Times dictionary (at least for us Logophiles and Verbivores), here's the last paragraph of Laurence Urdang's Foreword:

Not a succedaneum for satisfying the nympholepsy of nullifidians, it is hoped that the haecceity of this enchiridion of arcane and recondite sesquipedalian items will appeal to the oniomania of an eximious Gemeinschaft whose legerity and sophrosyne, whose Sprachgefühl and orexis will find more than fugacious fulfillment among its felicific pages.

Huh?

I figured out one of them words: 'the'

That guy had better watch his language!!!

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Originally posted by Braling II:
...Not a succedaneum for satisfying the nympholepsy of nullifidians, it is hoped that the haecceity of this enchiridion of arcane and recondite sesquipedalian items will appeal to the oniomania of an eximious Gemeinschaft whose legerity and sophrosyne, whose Sprachgefühl and orexis will find more than fugacious fulfillment among its felicific pages.

[Imitates Doug Spaulding]: Orexis is a good word.

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Originally posted by philnic:
[Imitates Doug Spaulding]: Orexis is a good word.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, as they say.

have you guys been watching O'Reilly again?

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Originally posted by patrask:
have you guys been watching O'Reilly again?

Never!!

Doug, my word of the day is "juxtapose". I just looked it up and sadly realized that I used it wrongly earlier today, darn and I felt so smart and from such great lineage for an oh so short span of time, back to the wading gene pool. Oh well, live-n-learn. Speaking of Fahrenheit 451, a good friend from work just started reading it for the very first time. I am so happy, it's like when you watch a movie with a friend and you've seen it but they haven't(but not being someone who would tell everything before it happens, or eat way too much of their popcorn)and so it becomes a real close approximation of your first viewing as well. Did I just juxtapose my original meaning for meaningless drivel? Anyhoo, my point is that I am excited and can't wait to find out how they like it. I know she'll treasure it!

'Anyhoo' is a good word.

Funny you should mention that. I've been having this terrible impulse to write, "N-E-ways."

Doug wrote:
"Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe."

I hope you don't mind but I'm going to post that at Asimovs.com on a new "Fun With Words" thread. Please don't sue me for plagarism.

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