The "I discovered a new word today" thread

[TightEnd]

I did

Leicester tigers are building a new stand



a blurb describes as follows

"Another sunny day at Welford Road as the new West Stand sees its first vomitory take shape "


i learn that a vomitory is

" One of the tunnellike passages of an amphitheater or stadium between the seats and the outside wall or passageway."

never knew that

[tikay]

Not found today's one yet, but spotted a good one yesterday, in the excellent Vicky Coren piece that Tal Bloke linked to.


http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jul/29/victoria-coren-fifty-shades-of-grey


...and the word was

posit

As in.....



That, I posit, is the erotic charge of Fifty Shades Of Grey.


Mr Dictionary says this.....



put forward as fact or as a basis for argument.
"the Confucian view posits a perfectible human nature"


synonyms: postulate, put forward, advance, propound, submit, predicate, hypothesize, take as a hypothesis, set forth, propose, pose, assert; More
presuppose, assume, presume


"there are those who posit a purely biological basis for this phenomenon"


•base something on the truth of (a particular assumption).
"these plots are posited on a false premise about women's nature as inferior"


2.


put in position; place.


It makes perfect sense, too - our position on something.

In these days of abbreviations & shortened words, that just works.

[tikay]

By chance, a repeat "Blackadder the Third" was shown last night, with Robbie Coltrane, in the episode in which he penned the first ever.....dictionary, & Blackadder ruined it with a bunch of made up words.

Wish we got to see more of Robbie Coltrane, no idea what he does these days.

[RED-DOG]

By chance, a repeat "Blackadder the Third" was shown last night, with Robbie Coltrane, in the episode in which he penned the first ever.....dictionary, & Blackadder ruined it with a bunch of made up words.

Wish we got to see more of Robbie Coltrane, no idea what he does these days.

He likes fiddling about with engines and is a big fan of the 2 stroke.

[Karabiner]

By chance, a repeat "Blackadder the Third" was shown last night, with Robbie Coltrane, in the episode in which he penned the first ever.....dictionary, & Blackadder ruined it with a bunch of made up words.

Wish we got to see more of Robbie Coltrane, no idea what he does these days.

He was in all or most of the Harry Potter films.

[AndrewT]

i learn that a vomitory is

" One of the tunnellike passages of an amphitheater or stadium between the seats and the outside wall or passageway."

never knew that

I think that it is also the source of the myth that Romans used to have massive feasts, then throw up all that they'd eaten, just so they could eat some more, because historians saw reference to 'vomitorium' and assumed it was a place specifically for this to be done, when instead it was, as you say, a passageway (literally, a place through which people are ejected)

[david3103]

Not found today's one yet, but spotted a good one yesterday, in the excellent Vicky Coren piece that Tal Bloke linked to.


http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jul/29/victoria-coren-fifty-shades-of-grey


...and the word was

posit

As in.....



That, I posit, is the erotic charge of Fifty Shades Of Grey.


Mr Dictionary says this.....



put forward as fact or as a basis for argument.
"the Confucian view posits a perfectible human nature"


synonyms: postulate, put forward, advance, propound, submit, predicate, hypothesize, take as a hypothesis, set forth, propose, pose, assert; More
presuppose, assume, presume


"there are those who posit a purely biological basis for this phenomenon"


•base something on the truth of (a particular assumption).
"these plots are posited on a false premise about women's nature as inferior"


2.


put in position; place.


It makes perfect sense, too - our position on something.

In these days of abbreviations & shortened words, that just works.

I posit that the use of the word excellent here is redundant.

[tikay]

By chance, a repeat "Blackadder the Third" was shown last night, with Robbie Coltrane, in the episode in which he penned the first ever.....dictionary, & Blackadder ruined it with a bunch of made up words.

Wish we got to see more of Robbie Coltrane, no idea what he does these days.

He was in all or most of the Harry Potter films.

So I gather, Ralph, but he used to feature in a lot of TV stuff, originally dramas & comedies, & then, later, in documentaries, driving his car round Britain, taking engines to bits & re-assembling them with his own hands, that sort of thing. Very watchable.

[Tal]

Diacritics

I have always called the little lines and symbols above letters in foreign words accents. Things like ěèéëàîç and so on. Officially known as diacritics.

[Magic817]

By chance, a repeat "Blackadder the Third" was shown last night, with Robbie Coltrane, in the episode in which he penned the first ever.....dictionary, & Blackadder ruined it with a bunch of made up words.

Wish we got to see more of Robbie Coltrane, no idea what he does these days.

When I saw the thread title it made me think of that episode, still amuses me now when I watch it.

[david3103]

Diacritics

I have always called the little lines and symbols above letters in foreign words accents. Things like ěèéëàîç and so on. Officially known as diacritics.

Second piece of vocabulary sourced via VCM in the first page of this thread 

Such a shame that Balderdash & Piffle isn't still on.

[booder]

Whilst at work this evening i found the word cuntwaffles scratched into a school desk.

I believe it to be an old Norfolk saying dating from the early 1800s meaning soggy batter.

[tikay]

By chance, a repeat "Blackadder the Third" was shown last night, with Robbie Coltrane, in the episode in which he penned the first ever.....dictionary, & Blackadder ruined it with a bunch of made up words.

Wish we got to see more of Robbie Coltrane, no idea what he does these days.

When I saw the thread title it made me think of that episode, still amuses me now when I watch it.

Well then Mr Bates, you struck lucky, as that Episode is repeated at 8.40pm this evening, on GOLD.


contrafibularity

[Tal]

Diacritics

I have always called the little lines and symbols above letters in foreign words accents. Things like ěèéëàîç and so on. Officially known as diacritics.

Second piece of vocabulary sourced via VCM in the first page of this thread 

Such a shame that Balderdash & Piffle isn't still on.

Ha!

Yes. I had an episode to catch up on.

[tikay]

herbertdom

prii