Posted on 12/24/2013 5:06:41 AM PST by SoothingDave
Word For The Day, December 24, 2013
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
parageusia [par-uh-gyoo-zhuh, -zhee-uh, -zee-uh]
-n
an abnormal or hallucinatory sense of taste.
[1895–1900; < Neo-Latin, equivalent to para- para-1 + Greek geûs ( is ) taste + Latin -ia -ia
Christmas is so close you can taste it!
A little rocking carol:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcMe551smvs
And SNL’s funny spin on a classic (and I didn’t just like it for the costume changes):
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/baby-its-cold-outside/n44614/
Just rolls off your tounge.
I love the taste of Christmas in the morning!
Tastes like ... cookies.
When trying to understand the government ... you know, when it’s salt but they say it’s sugar .. my tang gets all tongueled up saying parageusia
Barry’s socialist taste: parageusia
If you’re rich, he’ll condemn ya’, but use ya’
To pay for his folly
Deck the losers with holly
Then he’ll say that you’re cheap, he’ll accuse ya’
sounds like a rap lyric!
finished up the last minute stuff at Target at 7 am and the honeybaked ham store at 8am, i wish stores were open early like this all the time. i am ALWAYS up early and i love stores with no one in them.
you rock a mic like a vandal... ;)
too cold, too cold.
ice ice baby!
Thanks. My great-great grandfather was African-American. Or was it Native-American?
Actually, I re-read the limerick to see if I get the rap vibe (it’s there) but try the last line using a Bob Dylan voice.
yeah i can see you more as a dylan than a vanilla ice, i guess!
Oh that is a good one! Merry Christmas ya poet!
*Don't worry...it's still legal to say Merry Christmas here in Texas. You'll have to check the latest PC regulations in your own state to see if it's still legal to read Merry Christmas.
Since our daughter and son in law are going to his parents house this year, we won’t be having our presents and stockings until the weekend so I have a few more days.... Went out yesterday and it was awful - the traffic was nuts!
Thanks.
That's why God invented Amazon.com.
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