Awfully Peculiar Racket - Ordinary Names Yield Meanings, Surprisingly!
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| ABC | Alpha Born Coder! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| ADJECTIVES | Additional Details - Just Ensure Correctness. These Items Valuably Enhance Sentences |
TMcCO'G |
| ALPHABET | All Literate People Have Already Begun English Training. |
Angela Brett |
| AMIGO | "Amicus" Made Iberian, Guys Only |
Jeff Anonymous, doing failed searches. Amigo is the Spanish (Iberian) variant of the Latin "amicus," also meaning "friend." Both "amicus" and "amigo" apply only to males, "amica" and "amiga" replacing them when dealing with women. People & Relationships |
| ANTI- | Affix Negates The Idea |
Angela Brett |
| APOSTROPHE | A Pointer Of Syncopation, The Rightful Owner(s), Perh... "Hello, Entrant!" |
Angela Brett, mixing the two meanings of 'apostrophe'. |
| BABBLE | Blabbering Academic Blubber Building Language Expertise |
Rico Leffanta |
| COGNATES | Common Origin Gives Noise-Aligned Terms Equivalent Semantics |
Angela Brett (A cognate is a word in one language which is similar in form and meaning to a word in another language because both languages are related.) |
| COMMA | Competent Orator May Momentarily Aerate. |
Angela Brett |
| DEFINES | Dictionary Entry Found In Next Edition Says/States |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| DICTIONARY | Do I Consider Term Is Often Needed And Real? Yes! |
Angela Brett Art & Literature:Book Titles |
| ECHOLALIA | Every Child Hears Obscure Language And Lips It Again |
Angela Brett |
| ELEVATOR | Entire Levitation Etymology Varies According To Origin's Requirements |
Gavin Lambert (referring to how a different name is used for the same thing in other parts of the world) Places:Buildings |
| ENGLISH | Eccentricities Numerous... Grammar Learning Is Superlatively Hard. |
Angela Brett |
| FIAT | Fascist Is A Tyrant |
Tony McCoy O'Grady - "fiat" is Latin for "let it be done" and means a formal or solemn command (Star-Trek-speak is "make it so"!) Communication |
| GAMMA | Greek Authors Mastered Minimalist Alphabet |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, commenting that there are only 24 characters in the Greek alphabet |
| HOMOGRAPHY | Helpful Orthographic Method - One Graphical Representation And Phoneme Homogeneously Yoked |
Angela Brett, who doesn't think Homogeneously is the best word for it. Communication |
| IZZARD | It's Zed. Zounds! Apronyms Rarely Disappoint! |
Sean Lamb (dictionary.com defines izzard simply as "The letter z.") |
| KLINGON | Knowing 'Language' Is Notably Geeky (Or Nerdy) |
Angela Brett Art & Literature:Fictional Characters:Star Trek |
| LATIN | Language A Touch Intricate Nowadays. |
Tony -- English is becoming so sloppy that grammar is disintegrating, even though it was never as complex as Latin. Learning Latin must be really difficult now. |
| LOGOGRAPH | Like Oriental Glyphs - One Graphically Represents A Particular Heading. |
Angela Brett |
| MORPHEME | Manufacture Of Reductionist Philosophy - Here's Elementary Meaningful Entity. |
Angela Brett |
| MULTIBABEL | Most Uninteresting Language Typed In, But After Butchering Elicits Laughter! |
Angela Brett, referring to http://www.tashian.com/multibabel/ which uses the automated translation at babelfish.altavista.com to translate English into several different languages and back consecutively. The results can be most amusing! Computers:Internet |
| ONOMATOPOEIA | Original Noise Obviously Mandates Alphabetical Text Ordered Phonetically; Openly Encapsulating Intended Allusion |
Gavin Lambert Assorted Nouns:Noises |
| PHONEMES | Primary Hearing Objects - Nearly Every Morpheme Employs Several |
Angela Brett |
| PROTO-POLYNESIAN | Prehistoric Relative Of Today's Oceanic People's Oral Language. You'd Never Expect Such Interesting Ancestral Notes. |
Angela Brett |
| PUNCTUATION | Perhaps Underutilised, Need Commas To Understand Acronyms! Trivial Indeed, One Nods |
Gavin Lambert Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| QUATORZAINS | Quills Used Again To Organise Rhyming Zeugmas As Iambi; New Sonnets! |
Angela Brett, while trying to encourage people to apronymise Q words. |
| SURVIVE! | Sentences Using Real Verbs Invade Victoriously! Engage/Escalate! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. (perhaps describing how to survive on this website) Assorted Verbs |
| VOGUL | Vierd Old Grand Ulgric Lingo |
Jeff Anonymous (Vogul is a Finno-Ugric language of the Ugric group, spoken East of the Ural Mountains) |