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Infinitessimal
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Start with infinite, without end or limit. Now go to the other end of the spectrum. Still without limit, but so small, so close to being/meaning nothing, but still possessing some positive value: infinitessimal.
Jay Steichmann
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Jan
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Underground
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It’s a place and a feeling. It suggests all things nefarious and yet within culture it is where we usually find hope for the future. People disappear there. Friendships are cemented. The Fall have a groovy song about it. It’s a slightly queasy-filled Murakami novel. Most people probably imagine the letters forming the shape of this place. We all end up there. The imagination runs wild with it. The “g” acts as a ladder taking us below.
Raison D’Etre
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Jan
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Thimblewit
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Because of the wonderful image the word conjures up.
Mark
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Jan
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Czechoslovakia
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Czechoslovakia. Go on, say it. Isn’t it fun?
Sandy
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Jan
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Autumnal
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I love the way it’s spelled, as one of the very few words in English with “umn.” Autumnal has the edge over autumn because of the sheer sensual pleasure of rolling your lips as you pronounce the last three letters. And that’s before you get to the meaning. Autumn is my favorite season, mists, mellow fruitfulness, smoke, ripening apples, reddening leaves, the whole atmosphere of battening down snugly for winter.
Alex Lawson
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Jan
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Afeared
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While no longer considered proper English usage, this word still survives where my family originates. Its meaning is very particular, and much better than afraid, which has come to replace it. It implies an onset of fear, being beset with fear, not simply the state of being afraid. This word should be returned to usage!
Ness
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Jan
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Lozenge
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Saying the word lozenge is as soothing as using a lozenge. The lack of hard consonants is the secret. The day I am able to use the word lozenge in a game of scrabble is the day I can die a happy man.
Grant Sanders, Nantucket, MA
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Jan
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Ooops
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Because it’s fun to say; generally follows doing something that was probably fun to do; and looks really good in a number of typefaces — especially throwing in extra o’s.
Scott Fannen
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Jan
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Punchinello
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It’s a particular kind of short, fat, humpbacked Italian clown — describes me like a hundred times better than “Dan.”
Dan
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Jan
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Biscuit
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Biscuit starts and ends abruptly, but slides in the middle. They also taste good. Especially slathered in butter.
Adam Harvey
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