Words & Wordplay - February 2007

This will be a theme to a beauty pagaent

2007-02-09 08:01:17 · 9 answers · asked by Robin 1

Don't you get annoyed when someone tells you something and then says "In other words-" and tells you it all over again? I may scream.

2007-02-09 08:00:47 · 14 answers · asked by poppy vox 4

i need 10 words that finish with 'it' like 'sit'.

2007-02-09 07:57:56 · 6 answers · asked by azam d 1

2007-02-09 07:57:34 · 16 answers · asked by ALISON M 1

U.S.A
Iraq
Egypt
Paris
China
Water
Insect
Spider
Z
Thirteen
Air
War
Fame
School
God
Islam
River
Coffee
Best Friend
Job


Please answer as many words as you can?

2007-02-09 07:42:50 · 14 answers · asked by Laith Attar 2

If you mend a fence with some one you are said to have reconciled, but if you mend the fence aren't you repairing a barrier between the two of you? Why are some many of our saying saying nothing at all?

2007-02-09 07:42:27 · 9 answers · asked by What? 5

somebody used the term ''elbow in the mouth'' at me today, but i dont know what it means -

so what does it mean


and no, nobodys elbow hit anybodys mouth so all you losers who think your funny will be reported

2007-02-09 07:34:33 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-09 07:23:44 · 6 answers · asked by flaquita 1

2007-02-09 07:20:23 · 2 answers · asked by Gavin O 1

it seems as though the more thats typed the more you will understand what the person is saying but without punctuation and such the whole thing turns in to a realy long sentence that no once can figure as long as you continue to type without taking breaks that is how i feel and if anyone has a witty retort it would be appreciated as this is more of a rhetorical question than anything else sorry if this is hurting your eyes as i was trying to make a point

2007-02-09 07:13:10 · 10 answers · asked by Slimslimmer 3

An aphorism is a silly statement that actually has truth to it.

-If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
-A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
-Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
-For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.
-Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.
-To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
-Don't sweat petty things... or pet sweaty things.
-Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.
-Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.

Try to come up with some.

2007-02-09 06:54:11 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-09 06:46:53 · 21 answers · asked by islandofmudo 2

They are defined as words or phrases in which the letters can be transposed, or twisted around, into other words/phrases, while still making sense and having the same meaning. Here are some examples:

Absence makes the heart grow fonder
He wants back dearest gone from here

Angered
Enraged

Alphabetically
I play all the ABC

Asinine
Is inane

Apple Macintosh
Laptop machines

Adolf Hitler
Hated for ill

Allegories
Lies galore

Can you come up with some?

2007-02-09 06:46:14 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-09 06:41:30 · 5 answers · asked by islandofmudo 2

chicken or bush?

2007-02-09 06:37:14 · 7 answers · asked by ccr152 2

civil war
act naturally
friendly fire
natural additives
jumbo shrimp
homeless shelter
safety hazard
freezer burn
fresh-frozen
pretty ugly

Try to come up with some of your own!

2007-02-09 06:33:33 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I think the word may be German in origin.

2007-02-09 06:25:21 · 16 answers · asked by catfish 4

Select the correct pronoun:

1. "Go find ___ and say what you have to say." he -- or -- him
2. You would never know it, but that building was built by ___ teenagers. We -- or --Us
3.___ gave Timmy that cookie? Who -- or --whom

2007-02-09 06:22:29 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

why does anyone bother to enter answers such as ; Who knows??? or ' I don't know. Can you?'
Is this just to pamper ego?

2007-02-09 06:18:04 · 14 answers · asked by retep1964 2

2007-02-09 06:16:57 · 1 answers · asked by surge 2

2007-02-09 06:11:09 · 5 answers · asked by Bhaumik 1

I'm curious what parts of the U.S. folks are from who pronounce certain words in unusual/distinct ways.

1. A friend from Pennsylvania says "warsh" instead of "wash". However, another friend has a dad from Nebraska and tells me her dad does that too! Where did "warsh" originate?

2. I know a man in his 60s who says "thee-A-ter" instead of "theater". I don't know where he's from. Anyone else say it that way?

3. In elementary school, I knew a girl who pronounced "pen" so that it sounded more like "pin". I don't recall her having any type of accent. Where do people say "pen" like "pin"?

4. My mom, who grew up in Illinois, says she and her family pronounced "radiator" with a short "a", as in "rad". Anyone else say that? (I've NEVER heard it before!)

5. Who says "Oregon" like "Ore-uh-gon" (i.e. the same way you'd say the end of "octagon"). I say it that way, but everyone else here in California laughs at me. :) I think I got it from my Midwestern mom!

2007-02-09 06:03:51 · 9 answers · asked by scary shari 5

TRUE -- or -- FALSE

2007-02-09 05:58:29 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

Does anyone really know what that word means?
I do but just wanted to see what most people think when they hear that word.

2007-02-09 05:52:51 · 5 answers · asked by mojoekai_usmc 1

"Car's," "House's." It's just...wrong

2007-02-09 05:45:58 · 7 answers · asked by EBL 2

2007-02-09 05:42:34 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

I thought there was some kind of easy way to determine when a person should say who or whom.

2007-02-09 05:37:02 · 5 answers · asked by Anna 2

2007-02-09 05:34:37 · 11 answers · asked by froghit3839 1

The question is not about the country, but the construction of the sentence. Does it make sense in English or we have to use one complement like: "...during three years", for example. Any correction to the construction of my text are wellcome.

2007-02-09 05:34:10 · 19 answers · asked by Sergio Luz 2

Context:
When he'd gone, she brought us to the village and waited. She waited for thirty years. I don't think she ever knew what had made him desert her, though the reasons seemed clear enough. She was too honest, too natural for this frightened man; too remote from his tidy laws. She was, after all, a country girl; disordered, hysterical, loving. She was muddled and mischievous as a chimney-jackdaw, she made her nest of rags and jewels, was happy in the sunlight, squawked loudly at danger, pried and was insatiably curious, forgot when to eat or ate all day, and sang when sunsets were red. She lived by the easy {{laws of the hedgerow}}, loved the world, and made no plans, had a quick holy eye for natural wonders and couldn't have kept a neat house for her life.
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What does the sentence "She lived by the easy laws of the hedgerow" mean in simple English please

2007-02-09 05:33:43 · 4 answers · asked by Yodo 2