Too late. I tried it at home. Didn't get an especially interesting word group.
I'm trying to maintain a serious demeanor about the integrity of this thread. Well, I guess it's got some integrity. But mostly it's a bunch of woids.
it has the woof and warp of 'Roberta' woven solidly in2 it'
giving the integrity of your wisdom
a little 'over the top' but............
Bo, Thanks, I think. This thread was alive and kicking long before I found it or added a word.
but it's much better now! :wink:
Aw shucks, gosh, and golly. Thanks.
ahem!
getting back 2 words of the day.........
parthenogenesis: reproduction from an ovum, without fertilization.
kind of like making an omelette without adding fertilizer.
I looked up parthenogenesis. The dictionary says what you said, Bo, and gives examples. Like in some plants and invertebrate animals. Plants have eggs?
I refuse to comment on the fertilizer in the omelet comment. (Note the streamlined spelling of omelet.)
good point; (the egg, that is, not the omlut; i hate being caught with my extra letters hanging out)
i suppose the reference is 2 a plant's forming a seed without being pollenated
That must be it. Nature can be very confusing sometimes.
from my point of view EVERYTHING can b very confusing most of the time!
floccinaucinihilipilification
Here you are then Robertta:-
The estimation of something as worthless, but it is usually used as an example of a very long word.
The word originates from the Latin words flocci, nauci, and pili and it appeared in the Oxford English Dictionary's first edition (published in separate sections between 1884 -1928). The Dictionary cites it as humorous and gives the following examples of its usage:
I loved him for nothing so much as his floccinaucinihilipilification of money.
-William Shenstone, Letters
They must be taken with an air of contempt, a floccinaucinihilipilification of all that can gratify the outward man.
-Sir Walter Scott, Journal
Peter...; i used that word back on page 14, having found it in the Oxford etymological version listed as:
flo:cci-nau:ci-ni:hili-pi:li-fication
I have no concept of where the colons and dashes come from; never seen anything like it, can you shed any light on this?
floccinaucinihilipilification
I followed the thread from there.
Floccinaucinihilipilification was one of the big words we snotty kids used to "pride" ourselves on knowing; antidisestablishmentarianism, (somewhat relevant in the US at the moment!?), was one of the others. I seem to remember that Shakespeare used it in one of his plays. Can't for the life of me remember which one. Perhaps someone out there knows?
floccinaucinihilipilification
P.S. No idea about the dashes and colons
they shall, then, remain a mystery?
Looks that way, Bo.
Peter, Thanks for the additional info.
Sorry I don't have a new word today. All I can think about is electricity, power, and light. Well, no one ever said it was easy being a New Yorker.
got a word for you Roberta; a very complex one!
electronics; the branch of physics and technology concerned with the movement, and behaviour of electrons (Oxford)
something tells me that that one is not 'quite' understood yet, wouldn't you say!
I would say, Bo. I also say phooey. Hey, that's my word of the day.
Phooey: a word used to express repudiation or disgust.
