http://www.myfavoriteword.com/2007/12/20/antepenultimate/ Your Word, in Your Words Fri, 20 Aug 2010 05:14:41 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.myfavoriteword.com/2007/12/20/antepenultimate/comment-page-1/#comment-997 Rusty Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:00:03 +0000 http://myfavoriteword.com/2007/12/20/antepenultimate/#comment-997 'Antepenultimate' takes me fondly back nearly fifty years, to when my grandfather taught me the rudiments of cryptic crossword puzzling. When he nutted this one out, stretching right across all 15 squares, I was hooked. I could hardly believe there was a word for such an obscure thing, let alone that Pop could come up with it... ‘Antepenultimate’ takes me fondly back nearly fifty years, to when my grandfather taught me the rudiments of cryptic crossword puzzling. When he nutted this one out, stretching right across all 15 squares, I was hooked. I could hardly believe there was a word for such an obscure thing, let alone that Pop could come up with it…

]]> http://www.myfavoriteword.com/2007/12/20/antepenultimate/comment-page-1/#comment-918 daveg Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:57:22 +0000 http://myfavoriteword.com/2007/12/20/antepenultimate/#comment-918 ...even more pretentious then is 'preantepenultimate' for the one before this one! …even more pretentious then is ‘preantepenultimate’ for the one before this one!

]]> http://www.myfavoriteword.com/2007/12/20/antepenultimate/comment-page-1/#comment-776 Andrew Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:23:22 +0000 http://myfavoriteword.com/2007/12/20/antepenultimate/#comment-776 This is a true epiphany for me. I'd always assumed that penultimate was the coolest word ever, yet this one gives me pause. This is a true epiphany for me. I’d always assumed that penultimate was the coolest word ever, yet this one gives me pause.

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