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benhenry
08-30-2005, 09:09 PM
patter
benhenry
08-30-2005, 09:16 PM
halter
... any other previous flower children out there who remember halter tops? :thumbs:
Just a bandana around their beauty...
tied at the back on two corners;
and a string from the top corner to go around her neck?
jeez, I loved those things. I think the world started to get colder when the girls quit wearing those...
benhenry
08-31-2005, 12:25 AM
Flatties
Eve, may I propose a modification to the rules? Remember... L e s stated that rules should be for the benefit of smooth running... for implied member and staff enjoyment....
Consider: I have just made a perfectly legal "move" or "play"
I did this: [- change a word by either changing, adding or removing a letter in it]
"Flattie" was easily changed to the plural form "Flatties"
It is just a guess from someone who tries hard at this game, but might not be so skilled at it... but I think "Flatties" could have a fairly good chance of winning.
Please pretend: What if it did win? It seems completely unfair and dishonorable for me to win with just the formation of a plural, by adding an "S"
It required minimum effort, zero creativity, and stole the victory from someone who came up with a groovy play just previously.
My proposal is this: That the formation of a plural is a perfectly legititmate and worthwhile move, to allow the chain of words to continue and allow play to remailn open.... but if no subsequent word can be contributed... the winner should be declared on the basis of who contributed the "root" of the word... in this case, "Flattie"
Doesn't this seem more fairer? :cjlol:
Not quite sure what the change should be? You seem to have abided by the existing rules or am I missing something?
benhenry
08-31-2005, 12:46 AM
Not quite sure what the change should be? You seem to have abided by the existing rules or am I missing something?
Flatties
Eve, may I propose a modification to the rules? Remember... L e s stated that rules should be for the benefit of smooth running... for implied member and staff enjoyment....
Consider: I have just made a perfectly legal "move" or "play"
I did this:
[- change a word by either changing, adding or removing a letter in it]
"Flattie" was easily changed to the plural form "Flatties"
It is just a guess from someone who tries hard at this game, but might not be so skilled at it... but I think "Flatties" could have a fairly good chance of winning.
Please pretend: What if it did win? It seems completely unfair and dishonorable for me to win with just the formation of a plural, by adding an "S"
It required minimum effort, zero creativity, and stole the victory from someone who came up with a groovy play just previously.
My proposal is this:
1) That the formation of a plural is a perfectly legititmate and worthwhile move;
2) It allows the chain of words to continue.
3) It stimulates creativity; and therefore enjoyment;
that "S" could open up many possibilities....
but...
if no subsequent word can be contributed...
the winner should be declared
on the basis of
who contributed the "root"
of the word... in this case, "Flattie"
Doesn't this seem more fairer? :cjlol:
:cjlol: Well I said I would not poke my beak in but here I am.
If no word is posted to follow flatties then I think the flatties poster should be declared the winner. Its is just the bad luck, or bad timing of the flattie poster.
After all it's not the winning, but the playing of the game that counts :)
Having said that, if flatties should be the winner (and we don't know yet, someone may come up with an obscure following word) then I shall be devastated not to be the winner, I was looking forward to receiving the winners prize (whatever that is, I have never won it yet :) ):cjlol: :cjlol:
Now, I am wearing my 'flatties' and I am at WORK so I had better get on with what I should be doing :eek:
benhenry
08-31-2005, 01:48 AM
Flatties
:cjlol: Well I said I would not poke my beak in but here I am.
If no word is posted to follow flatties then I think the flatties poster should be declared the winner. Its is just the bad luck, or bad timing of the flattie poster.
After all it's not the winning, but the playing of the game that counts :)
Having said that, if flatties should be the winner (and we don't know yet, someone may come up with an obscure following word) then I shall be devastated not to be the winner, I was looking forward to receiving the winners prize (whatever that is, I have never won it yet :) ):cjlol: :cjlol:
Now, I am wearing my 'flatties' and I am at WORK so I had better get on with what I should be doing :eek:
Well, of course your decision is an excellent one...
you are the Moderator,
so that should count for something. :wink:
So...
I like that aspect of the game as well then,
as long as it is now clarified and completely out in the open...
if your play allows the next player to win by simply adding a plural...
then it is tough luck, comparable to
landing in a sand trap for Ron and Sue,
or too much smelling salt for Hy's fighter,
or slipping on a kaboodled nest of swarming grasshoppers
on a run between wickets in cricket.
oboyoboyoboy... I might win! :thumbs:
Senior Moment - I thought I posted 'flattie' - sorry Maka. I was just the 'fattie' :)
oboyoboyoboy... I might win! Yes you might, but then again you might not :) Here in NZ we call patties platties - did you know that? Not many people do. Meat platties, fruit platties, all sorts of platties.Big ones, small ones, all colours of the rainbow.Then of course there is lattie, or should that be latte. The milky stuff.
Just joking :)
benhenry
08-31-2005, 02:42 AM
Senior Moment - I thought I posted 'flattie' - sorry Maka. I was just the 'fattie' :)
Yes you might, but then again you might not :) Here in NZ we call patties platties - did you know that? Not many people do. Meat platties, fruit platties, all sorts of platties.Big ones, small ones, all colours of the rainbow.Then of course there is lattie, or should that be latte. The milky stuff.
Just joking :)
Gosh... I had a major brain f
og. I didn't think of some of those words that might follow...
Oh well, the plural question was a valid question anyway.
And it wouldn't be any fun if it was easy. :)
fratties (think campus :) )
pratties
This is what I had in mind with my previous post. Sorry the pic
did not copy. This looks like a mini-sailboat.
Chesapeake Bay Flattie
Specifications:
Overall Length: 10-3/4"
Beam: 3-1/2"
Scale: 3/8" = 1'
Our Price $48.99
Around the turn of the century, flat-bottomed, shallow draft work boats, called "Flatties", were used along the coast of Virginia and North Carolina to carry produce down shoal creeks to market, and for hauling oysters from shallow flats and bars. The Flattie's simple lines allowed it to be easily and cheaply built from commonly available lumber. Evolving into pleasure boats, Flattie's ply the waters of Chesapeake Bay to this day.
A Complete Kit Features:
* Midwest Micro-Cut Quality Basswood, Mahogany and Birch wood parts.
* Complete fittings set - Sails, Blocks, Fittings and Rigging
* Display Stand
LightningMk6
08-31-2005, 08:32 AM
Prattles
benhenry
08-31-2005, 10:58 AM
sprattled
benhenry
08-31-2005, 11:19 AM
rattled
benhenry
08-31-2005, 11:36 AM
wattles
benhenry
08-31-2005, 11:47 AM
twattler
.... heh I hope this isn't like a self-fulfilling prohecy or sumthin' :cjlol:
L e s
08-31-2005, 02:16 PM
tattle
spitz ... wish I knew what pise and pite meant :)
pise = n. 1. (Arch.) A species of wall made of stiff earth or clay rammed in between molds which are carried up as the wall rises; - called also pise work. :)
spit
Breezy
08-31-2005, 04:52 PM
tips
Breezy, tips does not follow
change a word by either changing, adding or removing a letter in it
The same order of letters has to be kept.
Good to see you here :)
Breezy
08-31-2005, 05:09 PM
spot
benhenry
08-31-2005, 05:55 PM
slat
...oh this word could get fun in a real hurry! :)
slaw
Pite-Racetrack in Sweden
benhenry
08-31-2005, 06:02 PM
claw
benhenry
08-31-2005, 06:15 PM
clade
...A clade is a biological group of species with a common evolutionary ancestor
benhenry
08-31-2005, 07:02 PM
glaze
... to put the caulking between the glass (on both sides) and wood molding in a door or window pane... I don't know why I can't find this definition... It's what we always called it... glazing the glass... oh well. It has other definitions, too, so it's legal.
... glace sounds great, Eve! Your posts always make me hungry! :)
:eek: two moves there Suze
not that I see ??? :call:
you removed the s and added a k -:) two moves
benhenry
08-31-2005, 10:01 PM
pear
benhenry
08-31-2005, 10:38 PM
dearly
marly (clayey, sandy.)
Edit:eek: too slow so instead
deary
L e s
09-01-2005, 12:31 AM
deary
benhenry
09-01-2005, 12:42 AM
dreary
benhenry
09-01-2005, 07:48 AM
read
eat
ooops... sorry rong thread... :cjlol:
read
LightningMk6
09-01-2005, 12:13 PM
ready
benhenry
09-01-2005, 12:20 PM
beady
L e s
09-01-2005, 12:55 PM
heady
L e s
09-01-2005, 02:46 PM
hard
L e s
09-01-2005, 02:54 PM
Char
benhenry
09-01-2005, 08:14 PM
seared
... close one, Eve!
P.S. hey thanks whoever cleaned up my blown post after "diary"
shouldn't affeared have two f's :) ?
Edit: No, sorry different word afeared = Regional and archaic
affeared = frightened
:eek: affeared
Suze, sorry, we have to disallow your word as you have changed two letters.
affeared .................. affrayed
affearer
Don't know if we can build on this one anymore!!!
benhenry
09-02-2005, 07:57 PM
affearer
Don't know if we can build on this one anymore!!!
Cool, Maka... I think you got a win here, but I don't make the rules :wink: :cjlol: :)
Affeerer ........ \Af*feer"er\, n. [OF. aforeur, LL. afforator.] (Old Law) One who affeers. --Cowell.
L e s
09-03-2005, 04:30 AM
Affeeror
Affeerer \Af*feer"er\, Affeeror \Af*feer"or\, n. [OF. aforeur, LL. afforator.] (Old Law) One who affeers.
Do we declare Les the winner with this most peculiar olde Englishe worde?
That is fine with me.
I do have a policy question though. As far as I can determine:
affearer
affeerer
affeeror
are spelling variations.
Are regional and archaic spellings as well
as foreign words (not in normal usage) acceptable?
benhenry
09-03-2005, 08:43 AM
That is fine with me.
I do have a policy question though. As far as I can determine:
affearer
affeerer
affeeror
are spelling variations.
Are regional and archaic spellings as well
as foreign words (not in normal usage) acceptable?
Interesting points... the name of the game is "change" a word.
That implies to me that the new word should be different in meaning
and not just differently spelled.
Benefits: more words learned, less time drifting in the doldrums;
Drawbacks: could lead to some tough calls by admin.
I don't think tough calls bother our particular administration at all... :)
...so I vote that a change in definition is a necessary
condition for a successful word "change".
Foreign words... I can't have an opinion on this one
because I have so little knowledge and experience
with it. American English is difficult enough for me!
The only foreign language I have a chance to become
proficient in is English English.
And that is very bloody iffy. :cjlol:
L e s
09-03-2005, 02:21 PM
That is fine with me.
I do have a policy question though. As far as I can determine:
affearer
affeerer
affeeror
are spelling variations.
Are regional and archaic spellings as well
as foreign words (not in normal usage) acceptable?
Well this is Eve's forum to moderate, not trying to step on her toes here but I always play the game that any word I use I must be able to find in an on-line 'English ( English language so English, American, Australian, New Zealand etc) Dictionary' so if any queries arise a link can be posted to it. Using that rule foreign words that are in common usage will be found and can be used.
Personally I would not limit it to any particular dictionary because part of the game is, when it gets tough to find a word then it takes a bit of ingenuity and sheer doggedness to find a word to carry on
To start afresh
Movie
benhenry
09-03-2005, 02:32 PM
moxie
fortitude and determination
Does anybody else like the etymologies? If so... here:
1908, popularized by Moxie, trademark name registered 1924 for a bitter non-alcoholic beverage; the word was used as far back as 1876 as the name of a patent medicine advertised to "build up your nerve," and it is perhaps ultimately from a New England Indian word.
Maka, movie was the starting word :)
Rules
Foreign words if they are in common usage (eg flambe) - allowed
Archaic words - allowed with dictionary definition
Regional words - allowed with an explanatory description
Change in definition - not required. eg day can become days. I think this helps to keep the game moving.
Repeated words - not allowed but if they sneak by with no one noticing for 3 more turns then thats ok.
Doldrums - should we fall in to them then the rules may be broken and a new word started if participants are in agreement.
Main Rule - Have fun :)
benhenry
09-03-2005, 06:55 PM
Rules
Foreign words if they are in common usage (eg flambe) - allowed
Archaic words - allowed with dictionary definition
Regional words - allowed with an explanatory description
Change in definition - not required. eg day can become days. I think this helps to keep the game moving.
Repeated words - not allowed but if they sneak by with no one noticing for 3 more turns then thats ok.
Doldrums - should we fall in to them then the rules may be broken and a new word started if participants are in agreement.
Main Rule - Have fun :)
I promise to faithfully follow the Main Rule. :cjlol:
Ok...okay.... I'll do my best with the others... :wink:
Sorry, Les, didn't notice that.
Will this be acceptable?
Mowie
I have searched my brain all afternoon for a word from mowie to no avail.
I do not know what mowie means either (??) Does anyone?
Maka can you enlighten us? (please)
Is Maka the winner?
Are we in the Doldrums and becalmed?
I could post mowe - old english for mow (A heap or
mass of hay or of sheaves of grain stowed in a barn)
What is the verdict?
Maka Wins, Doldrums and new word, or continue with mowe?
Eve;
Found this during search. Don't know whether or not it qualifies.
http://www.fmi.fi/research_meteorology/meteorology_12.html
mowe is a good word. It should keep us on the move
L e s
09-04-2005, 09:35 AM
owe
benhenry
09-04-2005, 10:41 AM
owes
Eve;
Found this during search. Don't know whether or not it qualifies.
http://www.fmi.fi/research_meteorology/meteorology_12.html
mowe is a good word. It should keep us on the move
I think MOWIE might be an acronym.... and an acronym in Finnish.
I think I won in one move with moxie... :thumbs: :cjlol:
But of course that is only if acronyms are disallowed, and I don't honestly know if an acronym is a word or not...
let's move on, of course, with "owe" but I think we need to consider whether or not acronyms qualify or not... if indeed MOWIE is an acronym... it isn't clear from the article.
And I just couldn't pass up this chance to mention that I might have won in one!!! :) :) :)
owes
I think I won in one move with moxie... :thumbs: :cjlol:
And I just couldn't pass up this chance to mention that I might have won in one!!! :) :) :)
Sorry Ben there were two legal words that could have followed Moxie... Doxie or Monie.
benhenry
09-04-2005, 11:27 AM
onus
Sorry Ben there were two legal words that could have followed Moxie... Doxie or Monie.
HeeHaw! You are amazing. I guess I'll have to keep trying :)
benhenry
09-04-2005, 12:01 PM
bones
I was waiting to use doxie :( :)
boned
benhenry
09-04-2005, 04:26 PM
hiney
... I love honey! I sort of like this word, too. :wink:
benhenry
09-04-2005, 04:52 PM
whitey
... cracker :cjlol:
benhenry
09-04-2005, 04:59 PM
writes
benhenry
09-04-2005, 05:26 PM
rimes
...glazes of sleet or mud; in contexts of frozen stuff
benhenry
09-04-2005, 05:43 PM
primps
what pretty boys and girls do to improve their perception of personal beauty
... got caught by the slow bug...
primes
.. numbers evenly divisible (an integer quotient) only by themselves and 1
you would think with all the amazing higher math history in the centuries of human study of the field that someone would discover some type of pattern or quality of prime numbers that would lead to predicting their occurrance; but nope. No pattern of repitition; no algorithm for constucting one... no easy check for "primacy" except the brute force method of mainframe computers...
benhenry
09-04-2005, 06:05 PM
pimp
... ponce
benhenry
09-04-2005, 07:41 PM
lisp
benhenry
09-04-2005, 07:46 PM
whisp
Whisp, n. (Zoöl.) A flock of snipe.
This is just too good to be true!
A greenhorn... (rube, rookie, wet-behind-the-ears... pathetically, but amusingly inexperienced person) when camping for the first time with experienced pranksters... will be sent on a snipe hunt to procure supper for his fellow riders, or workers, or campers...
I will not break tradition by giving away the secret of snipe hunting; but for a whisp to be defined as a flock of snipe... is very funny for someone who has observed people on their first snipe hunt... I haven't tried yet... but a google for "snipe hunt" might explain... but please don't peak if you ever intend to ride a trail into snipe country... :cjlol:
benhenry
09-04-2005, 08:17 PM
whilst
benhenry
09-04-2005, 09:28 PM
while
wile (The use of tricks to deceive someone )
benhenry
09-04-2005, 09:41 PM
smile
you saved me Maka!
wily
... I feel a cold shudder across my soul and shoulders; it is as if... as if, I was being led blindfolded to a surprise... that was unavoidable... yes, she has tricked me into entering wily as my word play! I am doomed...
stile (part of a door or window frame)
benhenry
09-04-2005, 09:50 PM
stilt
this word confuses me like scissors... can you have one stilt? Or do you say one stilts, if you are speaking of how many pair you own? :cjlol:
Stilt = Long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons. :)
spilt
benhenry
09-04-2005, 10:19 PM
spelt
... heehaw... it's not what you're thinking about me :) It has nothing to do with my appropriate arrangement of the alphabet in the formation of words on a typewriter. :cjlol:
noun: hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe for livestock feed
benhenry
09-04-2005, 10:42 PM
melt
darn... hungry again...
benhenry
09-04-2005, 11:10 PM
gelt
benhenry
09-04-2005, 11:34 PM
bell
... a large metal object constucted so as to maximize the vibrations of the structure in response to a physical reaction; thereby causing slightly unsyncopated wavelength changes in the pitch of the soundwaves propagating through the atmosphere. For some reason that I forgot.. this is a groovy thing to want musically... it provides 'richness" of tone somehow.
I think I might be unable to appreciate the subtle variations of music in this way, so I tend to prefer simpler, 12 bar bluesy rock tunes over more complicated but less melodic jazz tunes.
benhenry
09-04-2005, 11:43 PM
well
hell
Well, Hell's Bells, Eve! Can you do that!?? :cjlol:
Not sure but I did. Sometimes you have to take the risk :) Come Hell or High Water
sell
benhenry
09-05-2005, 12:06 AM
sill
part of a lovely architectural nightmare and waste of resources but so comforting, especially if they are wide, for kissing teenage girls at or on.
L e s
09-05-2005, 12:15 AM
silt
Breezy
09-05-2005, 08:01 AM
back to sift.. I can think of nothing else.
benhenry
09-05-2005, 10:30 AM
shift
Hi Breezy... now shame, shame on you! :) You aren't supposed to repeat a word! (Unless you think you can get away with it, of course, and it will go unnoticed for three turns... :cjlol: )
So if you're going to do it.. don't call attention to it... just pretend that you never noticed the previous occurance :thumbs:
Let me back up and try "shift" ok?
back to sift.. I can think of nothing else.
benhenry
09-05-2005, 01:53 PM
shirty
:) adjective: (British informal) ill-tempered or annoyed
L e s
09-05-2005, 03:37 PM
thirst
Phirst
BEING ... PHIRST!
PHotorefractive Interferometer Receiver SysTem
The PHIRST is an adaptive interferometer specially designed for the detection of ultrasound and based on the photorefractive effect in a semiconductor crystal. It features all the well-known advantages of optical ultrasound sensors over conventional PZT technology: remote, non-contact, high spatial resolution, broad bandwidth.
benhenry
09-05-2005, 07:32 PM
sport
benhenry
09-05-2005, 08:59 PM
part
benhenry
09-05-2005, 09:48 PM
open
benhenry
09-05-2005, 10:19 PM
cover
benhenry
09-05-2005, 10:42 PM
lover
ooops... :) I could get into big trouble with sloppy clicking when Free Association and Change A Word are close to each other :cjlol:
benhenry
09-05-2005, 10:53 PM
glozer
a very beautiful and courageous and intelligent and charming and successful and vivacious and sensual and beautiful glove maker
ok... sorry. :wink:
glozer: a flatterer
gloze (To give a specious or false meaning; to ministerpret)
glome (One of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of the horse's foot. :eek: )
benhenry
09-05-2005, 11:18 PM
gnome
... a frighteningly disgusting but lovable little creature who would not like to get stepped on by a glome.
http://www.nationmaster.com/wikimir/images/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Drag.jpg/180px-Drag.jpg
Hate to do it but will have to be gnomes - I can not find anything else.This one is named "Drag"
gnomes
benhenry
09-06-2005, 01:30 AM
gnomies
... Is a word in common usuage acceptable, even if it hasn't had time to become a dictionary word?
Gnomies is a commonly used term to refer affectionately to the subscribers and/or members of a Website/newsletter called Lockergnome (http://channels.lockergnome.com/windows/).
anomies ............. Social instability caused by erosion of standards and values.
anomics
Anomic aphasia: See Anomia.
Persons who have this disorder are called 'anomics'.
benhenry
09-06-2005, 12:12 PM
atomics
benhenry
09-06-2005, 07:53 PM
atomise
benhenry
09-06-2005, 08:45 PM
atomised
atonised
Sudan.Net Discussion Board : View topic - IS ISLAM A RELIGION OR A ...
... I WAS ATONISED THAT THE GOVERNMENT OF KHARTOUM WAS USING ISLAM TO GET PEOPLE
TO POLITCS. I HAVE KNOWN SOME OF OUR SOUTHERN LEADERS ...
benhenry
09-06-2005, 11:13 PM
agoniser
... I always put zees (zeds :) ) in words like this... agonize, for example. It came from reading lots of British science fiction authors and Doyle and Dickens, of course. And the great English mathematicians and physicists, and then my personal hero and favourite, Stephen Hawking. All of their writings usually had the zed spelling of that suffix and I guess I was so familiarized with it that I use it inappropriately whenever I have a choice. :wink:
amoniser
ALso I have implemented a new feature that will improve on all the engines ever release. It's called the amoniser. This handy bit of code creates a linked list which formats the metron. The metron is the available for shaders that will allow the import and export of true frame gaping.
benhenry
09-07-2005, 10:31 AM
amonised
... to have had the amoniser used on you
Any bids on anomised? Is Ben to be declared the winner?
I feel an attack of the doldrums coming on anyway. :)
benhenry
09-08-2005, 12:16 AM
Any bids on anomised? Is Ben to be declared the winner?
I feel an attack of the doldrums coming on anyway. :)
I vote for Ben to be declared the winner! :cjlol:
...pssst... hey... what about amonises?
I second the motion. Now it's time to cook dinner.
benhenry
09-08-2005, 04:22 PM
leaves
I second the motion. Now it's time to cook dinner.
Hot dog!!!!!!
I think Eve would want me to start if she was here to tell me... so:
leaves
benhenry
09-08-2005, 04:29 PM
heaven
benhenry
09-08-2005, 06:44 PM
craved
benhenry
09-08-2005, 08:34 PM
grated
benhenry
09-08-2005, 08:41 PM
razed
...heehaw... I always loved this word; the opposite of raised
long
good nite eve as usual it was fun
'Nite Suze - only 3.45 pm here :)
song
benhenry
09-08-2005, 10:09 PM
suns
benhenry
09-08-2005, 11:12 PM
sines
... plural of sine, which is: in a right triangle; the ratio of the length of the side opposite an angle less than 90° divided by the length of the hypotenuse
(It looks a lot uglier in English than it actually is... it is beautiful in a diagram, and it recurs in nature in places you might not expect... the turning of a wheel; the length of a side of a rectangle in a pleasing proportion for buildings, called the Golden Mean; the drag-to-lift ratio for flapping wings; the duration of the vibration of a string in a stringed instrument plucked with a steady beat, radio waves, amplitude and frequency..., many more.)
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