Comments on: Thirteen (Fun) Obscure Words

By: JHS

JHS — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:02:59 +0000

Oh, that was fun! And now, since I have hypergraphia, I am going to overcome my omphaloskepsis and circumambulate over to my own blog where I must work on my own list of 13 for tomorrow. Hopefully, it will appeal to the deipnosophists in the crowd and I will be able to avoid pleonasm and ad hominem arguments. I prefer to speak about desiderata and hope not to come across as too much of a crotchet!

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[...] Anyone who enjoyed my previous Thursday Thirteen might be interested in poking around my glossary for some more entertaining words. [...]

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 23:47:14 +0000

yeah, a real shame. I sent some money to help with his bills a while back, so I knew it was coming, but it still sucks.

By: Laughing Muse

Laughing Muse — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 23:34:36 +0000

Speaking of, did you hear that RAW passed yesterday? Meh…

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:44:59 +0000

exactly!

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:34:15 +0000

What a fun list! I’ve heard of four of them–if you’re willing to count “crotchety” as the adjective form of “crotchet”.

By: Sophisticated Writer

Sophisticated Writer — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:37:03 +0000

Never heard them before either Really interesting entry and thanks for dropping by

By: maggie

maggie — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 22:35:06 +0000

Great list. A crotchet is also a quarter note (a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note). I love navel gazing - my boss uses that word regularly. Cheers!

By: Mrs Lifecruiser

Mrs Lifecruiser — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:12:25 +0000

Right now it’s desiderata to do some heavy omphaloskepsis!!!! *LOL*

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:57:29 +0000

Actually, “subsidiarity” means that matters ought to be handled by the smallest (or, the lowest) competent authority. The Oxford English Dictionary defines subsidiarity as the idea that a central authority should have a subsidiary function, performing only those tasks which cannot be performed effectively at a more immediate or local level.