Comments on: 'What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.'

'What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.'

anastasiav — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 10:07:08 -0800

The Phrontistery presents A Compendium of Lost Words

By: arcticwoman

arcticwoman — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 10:13:58 -0800

Otherwise known as The Compendium of Awesome Band Names.

By: nylon

nylon — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 10:48:46 -0800

What's another word for quadruple?

By: amberglow

amberglow — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 10:52:21 -0800

gelicide n 1656 -1681 a frost Unfortunately, the flowers were killed too soon by an early gelicide. Gelicide sounds like a new contraceptive : >

By: amberglow

amberglow — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 10:54:03 -0800

murklins adv 1568 -1674 in the dark She stumbled murklins about the house until she found the light switch. love that one.

By: econous

econous — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 10:59:01 -0800

New to me and rather good. Although I was sure that agromania was a desire to fight. A lot.

By: NinjaTadpole

NinjaTadpole — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 11:01:06 -0800

"weedicide - something that kills weeds" ..that's a joke, surely.

By: anastasiav

anastasiav — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 11:03:43 -0800

What's another word for quadruple? Well, fine. Searching on the URL and the word Phrontistery brought up nothing. *sigh* I will ask Mathowie to delete.

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 11:54:24 -0800

underwit! :^)

By: phrontist

phrontist — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 11:59:04 -0800

My day has come!

By: phrontist

phrontist — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 12:00:36 -0800

(no affiliation with the site I might add)

By: chance

chance — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 13:52:47 -0800

homerkin n 1662 -1663 old liquid measure for beer "I'm so thirsty I could drink a homerkin of beer," Simpson lamented. This one sounds like a line out of a Simpson episode from 1663.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 14:42:15 -0800

And let me be the first to say that the Simpsons was much better in 1663, when they had Sam Pepys and half the Royal Society moonlighting for them.

By: Meatbomb

Meatbomb — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 16:02:55 -0800

Great to see someone on the web encourage flosculation, but for me the urette colour palette, welmish background image and poorly soleated layout points to a nequient web designer.

By: carsonb

carsonb — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 21:54:24 -0800

give it another 400 years and you can add 'Blog' and 'Web 2.0' and 'Internests' and 'Jiggy' to the list.