2006-08-05 12:40:34 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Phlegm.
What are half of those letters doing there?
2006-08-05 12:46:19 · answer #1 · answered by m_mac_92 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well while searching I found this word, WHILOM. It is an adjective meaning former. Please read on.
This adjective is one of three—the others being erstwhile and quondam—all with the same meaning. They are equally strange and un-English in appearance. But whilom is probably the weirdest of the set, and also the least used, to the extent that I had trouble finding a contemporary example. Here’s an older one, from J M Barrie’s book The Little White Bird of 1903: “Whom did I see but the whilom nursery governess sitting on a chair in one of these gardens”, meaning that the lady had once been a governess, but was one no longer. The word dates to Old English, at a time when the language was heavily inflected—adjectives, nouns, and verbs taking different endings depending on the job they were doing. Whilom—then spelt hwilom—was the dative plural of hwil, the same word as our modern while. As English progressively lost its inflections, the word became a fossil, with its ending stuck to it permanently; at the same time the meaning shifted to mean something of a former time, a change that was complete by the fifteenth century.
Just want to share it with you.
2006-08-06 10:08:14 · answer #2 · answered by klay 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Ghost, the h is totally silent, simply because the printer of the first English Dictionary, cant remember the name, set the print WRONG, and put an H in by mistake, it should have said GOST, not GHOST......now not a lot of people know that!
2006-08-13 07:19:56 · answer #3 · answered by SUPER-GLITCH 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
three, 2 me it has so many meanings and it even relates 2 god in wayz and also to the demond. but it is the weirdest word becuz it is a symbol in almost every place in the world.
2006-08-13 05:05:01 · answer #4 · answered by I LOVE DYLAN 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Toe. For my sisters and I growing up, this was the funniest word in the world.
2006-08-11 08:24:13 · answer #5 · answered by nacmanpriscasellers 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ZAX, it is a tool.
Also a very good word for people playing scrabble, lots of points.
2006-08-13 07:23:18 · answer #6 · answered by brown.gloria@yahoo.com 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ghoti. it's pronounced as "fish". Take the "gh" from a word like rough. Take the short "o" sound from a word such as maggot. Take the " ti" sound from a word like automation.
2006-08-11 06:38:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
antidisestablishmentarianism
this was the longest word I learned to spell as a kid
2006-08-13 05:47:22 · answer #8 · answered by ropman1 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Money --- got to have it -- can live with out it --- can get enough--- have bank to keep it--want to have it all the time. just a joke
2006-08-12 00:43:47 · answer #9 · answered by powernewfie 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
flaucinaucihilipiphilification
For real its a word! Dont know if I spelt it right...
Dont know what it means
2006-08-10 23:56:18 · answer #10 · answered by cuteangelshay 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋