Feck!
Posted on 07/23/2007 7:30:03 PM PDT by Constitutionalist Conservative
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Words do have power. I used to drive around a lot in sales and made tapes of difficult words where I would pronounce them correctly, define them and then use them in a sentence. I recommend this to any one who wants to improve their everday vocabulary.
I only struck that phrase because a sentence, by definition, must include a subject and predicate. It works for emphasis, though. : )
kowtow is a word we all better learn. It’s what we’re supposed to do when the Chinese who own our treasury bills, our food production, our manufacturing sector and our politicans, come to see us.
Oh, he knows "churlish"...really, really well...
Far too many latinate derivations for this English speaker to take seriously.
Words to use at a cocktail party!
>>>“Feck” is used by Irish in the same way as “F*ck.” So, if a guy is feckless, he’s not doing well with the ladies.
Sorry, sounds good, but credit the Scots. This from dictionary.com:
-—>[Origin: 1590–1600; orig. Scots, equiv. to feck, late ME (Scots) fek, aph. form of effeck (Scots form of effect) + -less]<-—
Right — “thermal dynamics” actually isn’t used much, although there’s nothing wrong with it.
However in most cases, it is probably a very confused student who didn’t do their homework...
Is that "redneck" as in "Did you see embiggens?"
For that matter, "dynamic" used as an adjective is wearing out its welcome.
-ccm
The word also gets some use in chemistry and medicine. I agree that it should be part of the vocabulary of any college graduate. High school may be pushing it.
-ccm
>>The words we suggest,” says senior editor Steven Kleinedler, “are not meant to be exhaustive...<<
I don’t know about you, but I find this list quite exhaustive. In fact, after reading it, I feel plum tuckered out!
(written purely for the humor factor)
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious...
Where’s my pic of Mary Poppins...?
“A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.” - Jebediah Springfield
“It’s a perfectly cromulent word” - Miss Hoover
The 'feckless' part was a joke.
But the Irish and others do use the word 'feck' to mean 'f*ck.'
Feck!
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