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General Category => Words => Topic started by: ridethetalk on July 01, 2022, 04:05:58 PM
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A couple more for your consideration, Alan. It's probably notable that I missed getting (common) fetishist but did get the (rare) fetishise, hence the possibility that adding the "r" on the end made sense to me...
FETISHISER – one who fetishises e.g. “To assume that anyone who’s dated more than one Asian woman is a fetishiser, lumps all Asian women into a singular entity and personality type.” From https://www.sbs.com.au/topics/voices/relationships/article/2017/02/22/whats-difference-between-having-type-and-fetishisation (https://www.sbs.com.au/topics/voices/relationships/article/2017/02/22/whats-difference-between-having-type-and-fetishisation)
SHIFTER – worth a reclassification to common IMHO e.g. would you hand me that large shifter please so that I can tighten the sump plug? You also have numerous references in fantasy novels to shape shifters… (https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-6zd5xpg/images/stencil/250x250/products/13369/43175/sidchrome-450mm-adjustable-wrench-shifter-chrome-plated-scmt25156__32857.1597292199.jpg?c=3)
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Wiktionary lists fetishizer, but not fetishiser. Other dictionaries don't seem to have either. Both spellings are in use. Another example is from Roman Presences: Receptions of Rome in European Culture, 1789–1945, edited by Catharine Edwards:
[Walter] Benjamin was an inveterate collector of books (he has a famous essay on the subject) and later of quotations, a fetishiser of the collected object, with an ambition to create a work entirely composed of citations from other texts.
We currently allow both fetishize and fetishise. Fetishizer and fetishiser will now be allowed as rare words.
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Thanks Alan... ;D ;D ;D
I only posted this yesterday!!! Does this mean your backlog is no more??? :-P :-P :-P
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Far from it! But I'm trying to keep up with current suggestions - at least for new words - while also responding to some of the older ones.
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I was surprised by shifter being rare I've owned at least one most of my adult life and have 2 in the toolbox at the moment.
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I was surprised by shifter being rare I've owned at least one most of my adult life and have 2 in the toolbox at the moment.
I’d call that a wrench …
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(I still think shifter is a word, though!)
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(I still think shifter is a word, though!)
Shifter was allowed as a rare word - I was asking for a re-classification to common though, based on your comment, maybe not... ??? ??? ???
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I’d call that a wrench …
Looks like a wrench to me as well. Never encountered shifter.
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I have never in my life heard of a wrench called a shifter. The Rogue household has numerous wrenches, including at least one similar to what is pictured above. We would call it a monkey wrench or adjustable wrench.
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Curiosity drove me to the OED for a look. Sure enough, I found shifter — but nothing suggesting it as a label for a wrench. Perhaps such usage is an Australianism? (FWIW, spell-checker doesn't care for shifter or Australianism.)
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FWIW Here is the listing from the website of a company that specialises in tools adjustable-shifters (https://www.justtools.com.au/garage-workshop/adjustable-shifters/)
The company's name???
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Just Tools - someone must have had a lot of fun registering that business name!!! :-R :-R :-R
The heading from that page: Adjustable Shifters; which, to my mind at least, seems to be a tautology...
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As shown by the entry from the OED supplied by TRex, the word shifter has quite a lot of senses not related to spanners. Similarly Wiktionary has 12 senses, but one of these is "A spanner with an adjustable jaw size". None of the other dictionaries I checked had the spanner meaning for shifter. However the Collins dictionary has a listing for shifting spanner:
Australian and New Zealand
an adjustable spanner
Also called: shifter
I don't see any grounds for making the word common.
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Fair call. I almost expected as much because so many hadn't heard of a 'wrench' being called a shifter...
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Similarly Wiktionary has 12 senses, but one of these is "A spanner with an adjustable jaw size". None of the other dictionaries I checked had the spanner meaning for shifter. However the Collins dictionary has a listing for shifting spanner:
Australian and New Zealand
an adjustable spanner
Also called: shifter
Ah! That makes sense. Thanks for finding that and assuaging my curiosity, Alan.
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So interesting when a word we take for granted / as universal turns out to be more ‘local.’
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Indeed ^^^
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I just checked the Macquarie Dictionary, from Australia, and one of its meanings for shifter is "Chiefly Eastern States → shifting spanner". So perhaps its not just specific to Australia, but to some parts of Australia.
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Wild - not what I thought to be the case... Who'd have thunk... ??? ??? ???