Words & Wordplay - August 2006

It's probably not what you think. 10 points to the one first one who gets it, or to the one who comes closest.

2006-08-03 04:28:36 · 2 answers · asked by kitten lover3 7

I.E. ConCede. The first C is sounded like a K while the second C is not.

2006-08-03 04:08:28 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-03 03:52:14 · 4 answers · asked by Linda R 1

???

2006-08-03 03:15:49 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have been wondering about this one... where does handsome originate from... does it mean that you look good so women will want to put their hands on you heh. Weird word.

2006-08-03 02:13:49 · 5 answers · asked by drglizard 3

effect and affect.

english isnt my first language, so im still learning. i looked both words up in the dictionary but im still having problems understanding.

2006-08-03 01:48:32 · 8 answers · asked by alleypop 1

i don't think there is as nemesis is meant as your WORST enemy and there should only be 1, but what if (for example) your worst enemy is a company of people?

2006-08-03 01:27:26 · 12 answers · asked by Diana M 2

IS it correct to use miss and not together, like "I miss not having something"?

2006-08-03 01:12:21 · 8 answers · asked by shilpi_cc 1

I want to create a new word, and would like it to be recognised as a word, and eventually be entered in the Dictionary.

2006-08-03 00:50:13 · 3 answers · asked by robert d 2

A hurricane is a violent storm that forms over a warm ocean and affects coastal areas. Its winds are 74 miles per hour or greater and its clouds circulate around a calm center of low atmospheric pressure. However, while it is obvious to most people in the areas affected by them that the word is pronounced "HER-uh-cane" just like "candycane" and "sugarcane," I still hear some people, some of them meteorologists, from places not normally affected by them who continue to say "HAR-uh-kinn." So why do they do it? Is it because, unlike me, they haven't grown up hearing parents, teachers, and meteorologists like Dr. Neil Frank (Houston weatherman) who know how to say it? If so, then why can't they take the lead of the vast majority who do say it right and stop saying it wrong? I thought "cane" had a long A, so from where do they get the "kinn" sound? If one can correctly spell a word, then why would it not be pronounced as it is spelled?

2006-08-03 00:33:46 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

A round of aplause.
A seal of aprovel
AND?

2006-08-03 00:25:14 · 11 answers · asked by pinktart2003 3

2006-08-03 00:22:07 · 11 answers · asked by gokoglan 1

2006-08-03 00:08:15 · 3 answers · asked by Mazlinna Malique 1

2006-08-02 23:52:04 · 19 answers · asked by tomaso 1

2006-08-02 23:30:36 · 11 answers · asked by valiant_judd 1

2006-08-02 23:23:31 · 11 answers · asked by Ken 1

2006-08-02 23:22:50 · 16 answers · asked by avenger 2

2006-08-02 22:53:37 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

Please let me know why sky, fly , try etc. words are excluded from this rule of english that no word can be formed withour using a vowel letter.

2006-08-02 22:16:25 · 15 answers · asked by Hafeez Ullah 1

Ì don`t know english very well, so I can`t understand many words. Could you please help me?

2006-08-02 22:08:40 · 2 answers · asked by weird 3

2006-08-02 21:45:38 · 6 answers · asked by buttar506 4

2006-08-02 21:33:40 · 3 answers · asked by Puppy Zwolle 7

Haste implies "careless progress", so less is best?

2006-08-02 20:55:59 · 14 answers · asked by mrh 1

2006-08-02 20:29:02 · 12 answers · asked by ss 1

2006-08-02 19:45:57 · 11 answers · asked by Émilie 1

2006-08-02 19:41:23 · 4 answers · asked by ramin 1

what is the word for compairing a word to the alternate meaning of the word?

confused? ok...

normal comparison: this knife is as dull as a butterknife.

what i'm talking about: this knife is as dull as a grey sweater.

the alternate word of meaning is "dull".
the normal is dull as not sharp.
the alternate is dull as boring.
the use for this type of comparing is a joking way of expressing the inadequacy of something.

is there a word for this type of comparison or did i stumble upon a new idea/word?

and just for fun you try to make a comparison like the one i am talking about.

2006-08-02 19:22:25 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

I attached a map to the email which was sent to my foreign friend. He said " The map of your area available to me is in Encarta " .
I can't understand it clearly. Encarta means what?

2006-08-02 19:21:22 · 6 answers · asked by photosynthesis 1

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phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,

it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

2006-08-02 18:23:01 · 43 answers · asked by Shangrala 2

Im curious if there is any pickup lines for people who are already taken..
im currently texting pickup lines to my hubby and he said he was taken as a jk back..
I can't find any pick up lines that are related..can u help?

2006-08-02 18:19:51 · 9 answers · asked by lifeskills13 2