Erin's Weird and Wonderful Word of the Day:
dretch
[drech]
an obsolete word meaning both 'to trouble in sleep' and 'to be troubled in sleep'. It's from an Old English word and is unknown in other Germanic languages, although we know that everyone has bad dreams, at least occasionally. A citation from Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur reads "We alle ... were soo dretched that somme of vs lepte oute of oure beddes naked," which must be the canonical bad awakening.
Originally posted by ark13I am glad you liked it! 🙂
Nordlys, I got your post card! Thanks so much. I really liked the statue of the walrus! 😀 But I can see from your website that Bodo's beauty lies in nature. Very nice none-the-less. Thanks again.
Today I really really really need to go to bed before midnight. I only made one single chess move today. 😕 The Photo Comp kept me busy.
Originally posted by NordlysWho is Erin?
Erin's Weird and Wonderful Word of the Day:
javanais
[zhah-vah-NAY]
a French slang, like pig Latin, in which av or va is introduced after each
syllable of word. <I guess that's meant to be "syllable or word".>
Byva theva wayva, ourav wrecksav matchav avagainav, arkav!
Originally posted by pendejoNot bad, not bad.
Check out HoHs effort. My personal vote for word of the day - Twiticism
I really like Tuedsday's Weird Word:
Ollendorffian
[ah-lun-DORF-ee-un]
an adjective meaning 'written in the artificial and overly formal style of
foreign-language phrase books'. From the name of Heinrich Gottfried
Ollendorff (1803-1865), a German grammarian and educator. Famous examples of such language include "Stop, the postilion has been struck by lightning!" "A man is drowning. Is there a life buoy, a rope, a grapnel at hand?" and "Unhand me Sir, for my husband, who is an Australian, awaits without." (Which last deserves several readings at different levels.) Perhaps the most absurd phrasebook is English as She is Spoke: The new guide of the conversation in Portuguese and English in two parts, by Pedro Caroline (Jose da Fonseca), which includes this nearly incomprehensible sentence in its introduction: "We expect then, who the little book (for the care what we wrote him, and for her typographical correction) that may be worth the expectation of the studious persons, and especially of the Youth, at which we dedicate him particularly."