Words & Wordplay - January 2007

I answered my first question this morning and received an email thanking me for joining the community and encouraging me to answer or ask more questions. Under point 2, Answer and make someone's day, It says this. "Share your real-life experiences and knowledge, and you can make someone's nagging question dissapear. " Terrible, huh? :)

2007-01-01 04:57:46 · 7 answers · asked by Jim B 1

2007-01-01 04:46:56 · 11 answers · asked by poetic_lala 5

2007-01-01 04:38:36 · 5 answers · asked by diamond 2

is it get or gets?

Do you know any doctors who (get/gets) paid on an hourly basis?

2007-01-01 04:06:02 · 10 answers · asked by Dan L 1

2007-01-01 04:02:41 · 11 answers · asked by G-Man 3

Sometimes I hear older people use these terms, and I have seen these terms in old magazines. ETHYL sounds like a old woman's name, like ETHEL or something, HIGH TEST sounds more mysterious.

So, does anybody know how, when or why these terms for Premium fuel (or Petrol) came into usage and have you ever heard them still used today?

2007-01-01 03:59:31 · 3 answers · asked by Middy S 2

2007-01-01 03:52:57 · 4 answers · asked by dreaminoferie 2

Example: "I am proud to have been born in the U.S.. I was born in Nevada.

2007-01-01 03:45:43 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

Can you write an amusing paragraph or 2 or more that includes THESE MOVIE QUOTES, about being shipwrecked with some of your friends.
1. Heaven help me. I love a psychotic!
2. He will crash that boat off Catalina Island, and he will drown and die and seals will eat him.
3. Shut up Brad! Your song stunk, I hate your suit and I could hurt you!
4. I lost a woman! A whole woman!
5. Actually, there is no Hell. Although I hear Los Angeles is getting pretty close.
6. Vanity working on a weak mind produces every kind of mischief.

2007-01-01 03:43:04 · 4 answers · asked by I am Sunshine 6

2007-01-01 03:24:34 · 4 answers · asked by G-Man 3

2007-01-01 03:23:07 · 3 answers · asked by G-Man 3

2007-01-01 03:22:07 · 14 answers · asked by G-Man 3

2007-01-01 03:20:06 · 3 answers · asked by G-Man 3

a. not orderly
b. subtle
c. circumspect
d. distinct

2007-01-01 03:16:16 · 15 answers · asked by G-Man 3

a. virulent
b. amorphous
c. taciturn
d. salient

2007-01-01 03:12:55 · 17 answers · asked by G-Man 3

EBay has had a tough run against Taobao since the site launched in 2004 as a free service, losing the dominant market share that it once enjoyed and suffering as the designated "foreign" e-commerce whipping-boy.

2007-01-01 03:10:19 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

A. provide
B. burnish
C. deck with
D. incite

2007-01-01 03:08:11 · 5 answers · asked by G-Man 3

I really enjoy finding multiple uses for things or meeting a special need with an item designed for something else entirely. For example, I use an IV pole to hold a mirror so I can cut my own hair, and as a clothes rack the rest of the time. Is there an adjective that describes this practice or a noun that is this practice? Thanks!

2007-01-01 03:00:37 · 10 answers · asked by Lily 2

2007-01-01 02:53:04 · 11 answers · asked by Shy Bear Who's Not Shy 1

2007-01-01 02:49:09 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-01 02:43:48 · 2 answers · asked by Tarun C 1

i had problem with spelling 'Psychology'. Hope, now i spell it right.

2007-01-01 02:18:10 · 43 answers · asked by Sky Boy 3

what does chombie mean? also muvvadie, chavvy boiwey? me ol mukka? i literally dont know - all i know is they are pikey words!

2007-01-01 01:56:15 · 1 answers · asked by loco_purple_haze 3

English is not my lanquach so I check my spelling on yahoo but a lot's words are different from the dizionare.give one esemple; I spelled Cat but yahoo correction was cut can any one telles me if there is a difference betwen european english and north America.Thanks and happy new year.

2007-01-01 01:19:36 · 4 answers · asked by jashuear 3

2007-01-01 01:16:45 · 9 answers · asked by lyndsey m 1

I’m sick of seeing regurgitated, tight little examples of seventies typography on design-department walls during grad crits and degree-project shows.

2007-01-01 00:59:28 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

Does it refer to something in the eyes?

2007-01-01 00:41:04 · 11 answers · asked by Labrador 1

1-I want to do a PhD.
2-I want to make a PhD.

2007-01-01 00:40:43 · 8 answers · asked by Amr R 1

The phrase "i" before "e" except after "c". Is there any weight to that? I mean "weight" "feild" and "ancient", are these just exceptions and I'm too buzzed to think of ones that follow the rule, or is this a rule that English barely follows? (Not that English strictly follows any rule.)

2007-01-01 00:28:03 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-01 00:27:02 · 14 answers · asked by Zaki M 2