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#321 Post by wgw2 » Fri Sep 11, 2015 3:18 pm

esperanto - an international language devised by Dr LL Zamenhof in 1887 to foster understanding between nations.

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#322 Post by OFSO » Fri Sep 11, 2015 3:21 pm

totally useless - describing the suitability of esperanto in international commerce.....

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#323 Post by Mrs Ex-Ascot » Fri Sep 11, 2015 3:26 pm

Lyme as in Regis -nice area when it's not p***ing it with rain!
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#324 Post by OFSO » Fri Sep 11, 2015 3:52 pm

Mediocre - as in a coastal holiday when it rains all week !

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#325 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Fri Sep 11, 2015 3:57 pm

reboot - management jargon which actually means 'We f#cked up"

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#326 Post by 603DX » Fri Sep 11, 2015 4:51 pm

Ottoman... a storage chest with a padded lid for use as a seat. Not sure I'd want to sit on one of the other meanings :-s

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#327 Post by probes » Fri Sep 11, 2015 5:18 pm

a nice try, that Esperanto... Europe could use it right now, if it had worked =:)

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#328 Post by OFSO » Fri Sep 11, 2015 8:05 pm

cephalopod - something fishy about the EU...

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#329 Post by stuart » Fri Sep 11, 2015 10:32 pm

odds-on favorite, don't bet on it.
it's good to be bad.

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#330 Post by OFSO » Sat Sep 12, 2015 6:22 am

onanism - saves a fortune in cut flowers.....

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#331 Post by wgw2 » Sat Sep 12, 2015 6:43 am

smit - to mark with ruddle, to spill beer upon.

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#332 Post by henry crun » Sat Sep 12, 2015 6:55 am

iterate - mustn't do that here

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Re: Last two letters start the next word

#333 Post by probes » Sat Sep 12, 2015 7:35 am

tesserate - like that:

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#334 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Sat Sep 12, 2015 7:49 am

telepathic - but you knew I'd say that.

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#335 Post by 603DX » Sat Sep 12, 2015 11:26 am

icebreaker ... what they use to make those Frappaccinos in Starbucks

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#336 Post by wgw2 » Sat Sep 12, 2015 11:39 am

eruption - reaction to being too late with an ingenious ic- word. :-L

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Re: Last two letters start the next word

#337 Post by Opsboi » Sat Sep 12, 2015 12:13 pm

WGW2 wrote:eruption - reaction to being too late with an ingenious ic- word. :-L


onanistic - squirming with pleasure at the prospect of an ingenious ic- word

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#338 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Sat Sep 12, 2015 12:20 pm

ichthyosaurus - the first complete dinosaur skeleton found, in Lyme Regis, Dorset, by Mary Anning, aged 12. She had survived a lightning strike, aged 15 months, which killed 3 other women including the one holding her.

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#339 Post by wgw2 » Sat Sep 12, 2015 12:28 pm

usher - an incompetent house-builder.

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#340 Post by 603DX » Sat Sep 12, 2015 12:46 pm

erosion might have caused The Fall of the House of Usher, perhaps? :-?

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