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Lovely as a summer day
Posted by: foxrafer on: May 31, 2009
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With air hopefully free of smoke.
© Plenz; please click for original image
Today is World No Tobacco Day, and this year’s theme is “Tobacco Health Warnings”. If cigarette packs really looked like the one in that picture I think people would have to think twice about continuing to smoke.
Spurious
Posted by: foxrafer on: May 31, 2009
spurious
\SPYUR-ee-us\ | adjective
1 : of illegitimate birth
2 : not genuine : false
I’ve only ever heard of the second meaning attached to this word; making a spurious claim and all that. The first one is funny to me. It’s like an alternative to bastard but would confuse everyone if you used it. “You spurious SOB!”
The link [...]
Subvention
Posted by: foxrafer on: May 30, 2009
subvention
\sub-VEN-shun\ | noun
1a : the provision of assistance or financial support: as
1b : endowment
1c : a subsidy from a government or foundation
Maybe this is one of those situations where we liberals need to take a lesson from the conservative fucktards and begin renaming things to suit our purposes. Welfare? No such thing. We provide subvention, [...]
Malinger
Posted by: foxrafer on: May 29, 2009
malinger
\muh-LING-gur\ | verb
1 : to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work)
There have been times when my inability to go to work has been genuine stress and depression. But there have also been times when I have been malingering. I know this word all too well, I’m afraid. It’s a [...]
Eclogue
Posted by: foxrafer on: May 28, 2009
eclogue
\ECK-log\ | noun
1 : a poem in which shepherds converse
Another new word for me, although I prefer Wikipedia’s definition (a poem in a classical style on a pastoral subject) or the Encyclopedia Brittanica (which simply says its usually written in dialogue) because the shepherds converse part, while very interesting as a form of poetry, does [...]
Jocund
Posted by: foxrafer on: May 27, 2009
jocund
\JAH-kund\ | adjective
1 : marked by or suggestive of high spirits and lively mirthfulness
This is a good word, although I’ve only just discovered I’ve been mispronouncing it for years. I am not jocund. Even in my early 20s I was not jocund. My natural state is not lively or mirthful. It’s probably why everyone always [...]
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