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Sun 02/03/08 09:20 PM
Who agrees?

JoeKur's photo
Sun 02/03/08 09:14 PM

ahhhhhh SHE gets a kiss and what do we get??sad


Sorry, only one prize per game... 8-(

JoeKur's photo
Sun 02/03/08 09:13 PM

u punked us


no, you're just too naughty!... laugh

JoeKur's photo
Sun 02/03/08 09:12 PM
you are - cograts... but you're just a bit late... sorry...

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Sun 02/03/08 09:11 PM

When the guidelines for etymology in Webster's Third were nearing completion, Gove took time out to add the story of dord to the lore of how things can go wrong in dictionary making. Dord was a word that had appeared spontaneously and had found a quiet niche in the English language two decades earlier. It was recorded in Webster's Second in 1934 on page 771, where it remained undetected for five years. It disappeared from the dictionary a year later without ever having entered common parlance. The facts, which had been established years earlier through a search of company files, were as follows, as abridged from Gove's explanation.
The lack of an etymology for dord, meaning "density," was noted by an editor on February 28, 1939, when he was perusing the dictionary. Startled by the omission, he went to the files to track down what had happened and what needed to be done. There, he found, first, a three-by-five white slip that had been sent to the company by a consultant in chemistry on July 31, 1931, bearing the notation "D or d, cont/ density." It was intended to be the basis for entering an additional abbreviation at the letter D in the next edition. The notation "cont," short for "continued," was to alert the typist to the fact that there would be several such entries for abbreviations at D. A change in the organization of the dictionary possibly added to the confusion that followed. For the 1934 edition, all abbreviations were to be assembled in a separate "Abbreviations" section at the back of the book; in the previous edition words and abbreviations appeared together in a single alphabetical listing (which is how they again appeared in the Third Edition.) But after the original slip was typed for editorial handling, it was misdirected. Eventually, it came to be treated with the words rather than with the abbreviations.



Congrats on your googling, Sahmoa - you get the Big Prize - a Big Kiss! MMMWWWWAAAAAHHH!! There! flowerforyou

As for the rest of you smart-alecks!....

JoeKur's photo
Sun 02/03/08 09:09 PM
1st - Very Pretty
2nd - you're from my home state
3rd - It's really cool you like older cars and work on them
4th - you take great pics (the rest of your pics are great too)

JoeKur's photo
Sun 02/03/08 09:07 PM
Dord (D-O-R-D)?

The first person (meaning GIRL) to tell me What this is, and the interesting fact about it, get's a Big Prize!

JoeKur's photo
Sun 02/03/08 08:55 PM
man, you're hair is too nice...

JoeKur's photo
Fri 02/01/08 09:33 PM
I got my CCNA a few years ago...

JoeKur's photo
Tue 01/08/08 09:40 PM
add to that confident and sweet.

JoeKur's photo
Sun 01/06/08 04:15 PM

I just checked with the judges, and they agreed i won, because you don't go tell family" well aunt Ethel is messed up" lol


Well they SHOULD! it would be EASIER to understand! (KIDDING!)

Ok ok... you won... HERE's The Flowers... flowerforyou

JoeKur's photo
Sun 01/06/08 04:14 PM

flowerforyou


that's IT? A Flower?!?!?!?! (LOL!)

JoeKur's photo
Sun 01/06/08 04:14 PM


Sorry Joe, there are med people on here lol.


(sorry, system dropped my reply)

yea, I know - lots of nurses on here too, actually...


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Sun 01/06/08 04:13 PM

Sorry Joe, there are med people on here lol.

JoeKur's photo
Sun 01/06/08 04:11 PM
I totally won though! (and no fair, irad8you, you're in the medical field! LOL)

what's my prize? huh huh?

JoeKur's photo
Sun 01/06/08 04:09 PM
Leuko - white
Dystrophy - messed up

JoeKur's photo
Sun 01/06/08 04:07 PM
LEUKODYSTROPHY!

JoeKur's photo
Sun 01/06/08 04:00 PM

i lied about my age, i'm 297 years old.....



damn i look good for my age......


I KNEW it! ur a Friggin Vampire! laugh laugh laugh

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Sun 01/06/08 03:58 PM

no wonder he thinks women are better at this game....

it's not that their any better, the guys just don't want to get kissed by him......

Right On! Most have caught on... like you... haha! laugh laugh

JoeKur's photo
Sun 01/06/08 03:57 PM

if he's gonna try to kiss me then i'm not telling.........


U know it, Dude...

I would state in the rules that only girls could play, but some guy would probably complain... I just withhold the prize when a guy wins...


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