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Words / Spoiler: 10-letter April 15
« on: April 16, 2011, 12:21:23 AM »
Ouchies.  When a kid gets hurt you can often hear a parent here ask them "Did you get an ouchy?" So it stands to reason that if they had several, they would have ouchies.

It's even used on a blog called "The Student Doctor Diaries", so surely it's a legit medical term too??  >:D

http://studentdoctordiaries.blogspot.com/2011/04/ouchies.html

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Words / Turps common?
« on: February 10, 2011, 04:27:53 AM »
I had never heard of turps before. The dictionary says it's an informal plural for turpentine.  I've only ever heard turpentine called just that - turpentine. I would think that even if turps is a common slang that it wouldn't be allowed in Chi since it is a plural.

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Words / Word Suggestions: 10/28
« on: October 29, 2010, 12:24:58 AM »
busser
"Busser, busboy or busgirl are terms used in the United States of someone that works in the restaurant and catering industry clearing dirty dishes, taking the dirty dishes to the dishwasher, setting tables, and otherwise assisting the waiting staff (waiter/waitress)."
-Wikipedia

"To publicize the case, the three cooks, a hostess and a busser marched between the still-vacant Inner Harbor restaurant space and the U.S. District Court along with other low-wage restaurant workers associated with United Workers, an advocacy group."
-The Daily Record

"Mascia actually had friends among Redeye Grill bussers and runners.  A Bangladeshi busser with whom she discussed the news of the world was the first person to suggest that she apply to journalism school.  Yet she had no idea about the level of mistreatment they suffered until ROC-NY helped her recognize it. Bussers, for example, are part of the tip pool.  If managers were taking some of the tips, bussers as well as servers lost money. But this had never occurred to Jennifer Mascia when she wrote her first letter to her co-workers. She didn't send that letter to anybody working in the back of the house."
-The Accidental American: Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization

glub
"The sound of underwater bubbles, or of water bubbling (often used repetitively)"

Quotations2004 David L Roper - Son Of A Sharecropper: Growing Up in Oklahoma
The boat, which was filled with water, instantly—glub, glub—sank.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/glub

"As I listened I thought I heard a sort of half-liquid bubbling noise - 'glub... glub...glub...' - which had an odd suggestion of inarticulate, unintelligible word and syllable divisions. I called 'Who is it?' But the only answer was 'glub..glub...glub-glub.'"
-H.P. Lovecraft

"The Post's Thomas Boswell once dubbed Nos. 10 and 11, "Glub Glub Corner" because of the standing water. No tournament was more cursed by water than the Kemper Open. But flooding should be a thing of the past now that Rock Run has been rehabilitated and 12 acres of wetlands have been added to catch overflows."
-The Washington Post

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Words / Suggestion for 10/22
« on: October 22, 2010, 11:48:41 PM »
Gummies - Gummies, gummy candies or Jelly sweets are a gelatin based chewy candy.

Taken from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gummy_candies

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Words / resalt
« on: September 24, 2010, 07:00:16 AM »
What about resalt? Living in a state that gets lots of snow and ice, this is one I hear frequently in the winter time.

Example:
"This morning we had rain, but it froze in one hour, then it rained again.  When that happens the rain removes the salt, so you have to go out again, and resalt."

Example taken from: http://www.camptontownship.com/c_t/Main/Board/Board_Minutes/Monthly_Meetings/Monthly_Meeting_Dec11_2007.htm

More examples.

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Word Games / Keyboard: Slower?
« on: August 03, 2010, 02:04:10 AM »
It seems to me like I have to type slower and slower each time I play Chi so that it is able to keep up with me. I've had a lowered hit rate more than once because Chi didn't register a key I had hit. I know my typing speed hasn't increased since I started playing Chi by that much... Does anyone else have a problem when they type in the letters?

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Words / Regalness
« on: April 22, 2010, 11:22:49 PM »
Not acceptable?? Can't believe all the kings and queens didn't come up with this one.

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Words / Common?
« on: April 02, 2010, 01:25:15 AM »
I would say that pederast is not a common word here...I would hope it's not a common word elsewhere, either, considering the definition I found on freedictionary!

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Words / Word Suggestion 1/11/10
« on: January 12, 2010, 04:43:06 AM »
unhide

Yes, yes. I know the proper word is show, or even reveal. But some computer applications/websites, including Microsoft Excel use the term "unhide".

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Words / Suggestion
« on: April 24, 2009, 05:37:16 AM »

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Words / word suggestions
« on: January 22, 2009, 03:54:10 PM »

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Words / Demotions?
« on: December 28, 2008, 03:53:23 AM »
Ok, so I might be the only one on these, but there were a few words from Friday's challenge that I'm not sure fit the "common" category.

faro
tarn
tauten (taut and tauter are fine)
natter (this isn't a word used really in the States from my experience)

Thoughts?

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Words / indice
« on: November 14, 2008, 02:14:17 AM »
Indice - Index; indication.


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Words / hentai
« on: November 01, 2008, 08:20:16 AM »

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Words / paren
« on: October 25, 2008, 03:58:37 AM »
Short for parenthesis. Though I more often hear parens (for parentheses, since you ususally use two of them).

Bartelby
http://www.bartleby.com/68/18/4418.html

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket#Parentheses__.28_.29

Dictionary.com
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/parens

Most often I see it used without punctuation.

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