Word For The Day, Thursday, May 11, 2006 - anarthrous

dictionaries ad nauseum, internet | May 11, 2006 | secret garden

[secret garden]

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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".

an·ar·throus (n-ärth-rs)adjective
Linguistics. Occurring without an article. Used especially of Greek nouns.
Zoology. Lacking joints.

Example sentence:
Novelist Dan Brown staggered through the formulaic splendour of his opening sentence. I've discussed his anarthrous kickoff with a couple of novelists and they say things like, "It doesn't sound like a novel," and I usually reply that that's the point. If The Da Vinci Code were just a novel, it would just be crummy writing.

Etymology:
From Greek anarthros, not articulated : an-, without.

Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.

The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....

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Review Threads:

Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate

WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!

[secret garden]

Rise and shine!

[theDentist]

I have an anarthrous leg, which is why I don't run anymore... and miss it.

[secret garden]

Good Morning Class. Welcome to School!

Here is my example with WFTD.

Mark Steyn inspires many to do thoughtful, creative things. Today he inspired me to use anarthrous as our WFTD.

[xsmommy]

Lovely sub, SG, picked a great WFTD ; )

[VRWCmember]

3?

[xsmommy]

Studly vast is, indeed, #3.

[VRWCmember]

Is Ann Arthrous the older sister of Bea Arthrous? And did she ever appear as a guest star on Maude or The Golden Girls?

[grey_whiskers]

The GOP Senates disastrous
They'd rather court Dems than listen t'us.
The RINOs just whine
...and without a spine
I guess you could say they're anarthrous!

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

I was driving through Kentucky after The Derby and wanted to stop for a beer. I couldn't find a gin mill for miles, and then I realized that I had ventured into an anarthrous county--NO JOINTS!

[Robert A Cook PE]

Well, when the pitcher damaged his throwing arm, it required anarthrowous surgery to fix his elbow.

But, then again, the democrats demand we equipment our military anarthrously, so they'ed be disarmed as well.

[Robert A Cook PE]

We aren't teating miss secret's word very seriously, are we?

(is she going to get up in arms about that?)

[Robert A Cook PE]

This is a disjointed topic, isn't it?

[mikrofon]

"Knights of the Round Table" was anarthrous tale of olde England...

[Toby06]

Geez, sorry I pissed you off enough to remove me from your ping list. I wonder what I did?

< /obnoxious way of asking you to update your ping list to include me>

[Gabz]

Well, whatever it was you did, I must have done it too..........cause I didn't get called to class by the teach either :(

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

The anarthrous ramblings from the Iranian Mullahs roughly take the form:

"We make bomb. We use bomb. We wipe Israel off map."

Our arthrous reply should take the form:

"We've had the bomb for over sixty years. We've used it on
our enemy in World War II. If necessary, we will use it on the
future sheet of glass formerly known as Iran."

[Toby06]

Let's go have a smoke and wait for the bell to ring.

[grey_whiskers]

I was driving through Kentucky after The Derby and wanted to stop for a beer. I couldn't find a gin mill for miles, and then I realized that I had ventured into an anarthrous county--NO JOINTS!

DING DING DING DING DING!

No more calls, please.
We have a winner!

Full Disclosure: This is also why the left hates conservatives, but tolerates libertarians ;-)

[Dutchgirl]

I am having anarthrous day. Maybe it would improve if I ate a brownie!

[VRWCmember]

We aren't teating miss secret's word very seriously, are we?

I take teats very seriously as xs has observed from time to time.