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Post by willien on May 13, 2024 9:45:27 GMT
Said with a South African accent, it's apt, as in aptitude etc. Connected? I think we tend to use adept rather than ept don't we? You ruled out "inept" for this occasion?  |
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Post by zou on May 13, 2024 9:58:26 GMT
Said with a South African accent, it's apt, as in aptitude etc. Connected? I think we tend to use adept rather than ept don't we? Yeah, someone posted that already. But I do wonder about whether the root is similar. On which note a repeat joke: people who confuse etymology and entomology really bug me. |
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Post by Kath on May 13, 2024 10:22:59 GMT
Words from the book that I've missed posting due to total lack of organisation:
Bombast
Loquacious
Desultory
Quietus
Brusque
Emaciated
Propitious versus Auspicious
Valetudinarian
Nascent
I feel like we probably know most of these already but I didn't know valetudinarian (someone who is sickly or weak). If anything I think I'd have assumed the opposite. I did know quietus as being the settlement of a debt but it seems it also has the same use as kibosh - a word I don't know how I know it. Off to look up where it comes from.
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Post by MJB on May 13, 2024 11:16:10 GMT
Kibosh sounds like one of those words adopted from India during the days of empire.
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Post by willien on May 13, 2024 11:28:24 GMT
Kibosh sounds like one of those words adopted from India during the days of empire. Dunno. It does not have much in common with bungalow.  |
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Post by Kath on May 13, 2024 11:39:42 GMT
Kibosh sounds like one of those words adopted from India during the days of empire. That's rather what I thought, but the most I can find is that it may have come to London from Ireland. |
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Post by zou on May 13, 2024 11:59:47 GMT
Kibosh sounds like one of those words adopted from India during the days of empire. That's rather what I thought, but the most I can find is that it may have come to London from Ireland. That somewhat kiboshed that idea then. #sorrynotsorry |
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Post by spinno on May 13, 2024 13:05:14 GMT
Kibosh sounds like one of those words adopted from India during the days of empire. Dunno. It does not have much in common with bungalow. Nor pyjamas? |
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Post by spinno on May 13, 2024 13:06:33 GMT
I'm enjoying "Prig" today and I will probably use it in an ept manner to annoy someone later. Normally it's twinned with pompous if my memory serves I cannot believe nobody picked up on my post... Perhaps I'm not as pompous a prig as I think I am |
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Post by zou on May 13, 2024 14:10:49 GMT
I was surprised to learn a long time ago that rickshaw had its origins further east than expected. In Japanese it's 人力車 which is jin (person) riki (power) sha (carriage), and presumably something similar in Chinese.
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Post by kate on May 13, 2024 14:27:32 GMT
Said with a South African accent, it's apt, as in aptitude etc. Connected? I think we tend to use adept rather than ept don't we? I think your statement, an apercu, is enlightening to me. Thank you! |
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Post by kate on May 13, 2024 14:32:01 GMT
I was surprised to learn a long time ago that rickshaw had its origins further east than expected. In Japanese it's 人力車 which is jin (person) riki (power) sha (carriage), and presumably something similar in Chinese. Brilliant. A bit like Smashing, which is derived from the Gaelic, S'math sin - It's good isn't it? |
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Post by JohnY on May 13, 2024 15:08:34 GMT
Irish cie bais .
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Post by spinno on May 13, 2024 17:13:07 GMT
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Post by MJB on May 13, 2024 17:16:48 GMT
That's just one of many theories. Kibosh is actually a term used in cobbling, but no one really knows its origins. |
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