Words & Wordplay - May 2007

If you signing a letter on behalf of someone, you write pp then your signature.

What does PP mean?

2007-05-23 23:23:43 · 12 answers · asked by Minstrel 2

I don't understand why they pronounce bass as base (music), I mean isn't the english language complex enough. For example if I am fishing and I should call the bass I caught as base who would have any idea of what I am talking about, what is a base fish?

I was just wondering because it has kinda been buggin' me for a while

2007-05-23 21:49:01 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-23 21:44:45 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

I was comtemplating what I'd like to do to the poison ivy in my yard. I thought about getting rid of it, but that wasn't good enough. I wanted to eradicate it -- still not good enough. So I decided to OBLITERATE it -- or would ANNIHILATING it be better?

Which is worse -- to be obliterated or annihilated?

2007-05-23 17:37:04 · 6 answers · asked by luvrats 7

i want to go to the movies tonight.
i want to go to a movie tonight.
i want to go to the movie tonight.

2007-05-23 17:34:39 · 6 answers · asked by popcorn0421 1

2007-05-23 17:13:11 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-23 16:12:48 · 5 answers · asked by reyansh 1

this word was used in realition to employee employer in the labor codes

2007-05-23 16:03:39 · 4 answers · asked by larry k 2

2007-05-23 15:41:27 · 2 answers · asked by Mr. 17-5 1

2007-05-23 13:55:36 · 14 answers · asked by onlyme 2

could you write something, then translate it?

2007-05-23 13:39:29 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

Can anyone help unscramble the following word:

L S W Y I E

Your help is very much appreciated :)

2007-05-23 13:32:53 · 10 answers · asked by à®?á?¦MORAJAá?¦à®? 4

2007-05-23 12:31:05 · 14 answers · asked by answer_me 1

I walked in and asked, "Do you have the red shirt"?

My 3 choices are...

The comma before the quotation

The punctuation after the quotation

The capitalized letter inside the quotation

2007-05-23 12:17:06 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

"It's a good thing the better of us try and fail rather than try at all."

If you guess right then you get the points! Got to be the first one to find it though. And there is no typo in the phrase, I mean it that way.

2007-05-23 11:50:23 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

i can't remember the word, but i can sorta remember the definition: liking or enjoying other people's pain (i remember it from 12 Angry Men) can anyone help me find the right word?

btw, i already tried searching the reverse dictionaries, and i still haven't found the right word

2007-05-23 11:42:22 · 5 answers · asked by bksrbttr 3

2007-05-23 11:18:50 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

give me all the words that start with x you can think of

2007-05-23 11:12:32 · 11 answers · asked by Nicole 2

i've always wandered what my name meant ! does anyone know?

2007-05-23 11:11:13 · 4 answers · asked by kimberly 1

I saw a woman (who I did not know) and she said to me and my friend "have a happy holiday girls" and then held up three fingers (like a W) and had her arm held sideways across her body with her elbow kind of sticking out. Does anyone have any idea what this could mean???

2007-05-23 11:11:04 · 1 answers · asked by momof2bru 2

2007-05-23 10:54:42 · 6 answers · asked by FavoredbyU 5

I have a fairly firm grasp of language usage, but someone I work with says that #2 is correct, and I think it's #1. I know that headquarters (like scissors) is a word that sounds like a plural when it's actually singular, but there have to be exceptions when it sounds as awkward as #2 does, right? Anyone have an answer?

2007-05-23 10:01:13 · 6 answers · asked by blueknitter999 1

OK, I get a lot of questions about my name, canadiantrashmonkey. I will give the person who guesses correct as to what my name means best answer and therefore, 10 points. Good luck! Trust me, you'll need it, it's a doozie!

2007-05-23 09:19:41 · 8 answers · asked by Renee 3

2007-05-23 09:08:59 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-23 08:22:32 · 9 answers · asked by gm_santayana 2

6 letters, second letter is C.
Tearing or wearing away of the skin.

Thanks,

2007-05-23 07:58:55 · 3 answers · asked by Waji A 1

2007-05-23 07:49:25 · 7 answers · asked by pat800 1

Being a resident of New Mexico and traveling along I-25 many times. I have constanly come across an exit sign to Upham, NM. To settle a bet, I would just like to the correct pronunciation.

2007-05-23 07:42:29 · 3 answers · asked by carlos g 2

It's "etc"!

Another that drives me crazy is "loose" for "lose", as in "You're making me loose my mind!"

2007-05-23 04:54:48 · 6 answers · asked by ? 3

OK.. so I presume most of us are bored, otherwise we wouldn't be on here, right?!

So to make things a bit interesting, here is a competition.

I want you (if you can be bothered) to give me a completely random sentence, literally the first thing that pops into your head.

It doesn't have to make sense, in fact it might even be better (and funnier) if it doesn't. The more random and bizarre the better.

10 points for the most amusing one!

2007-05-23 03:38:41 · 33 answers · asked by Ivor Hugh G.Rection 6