the word of the day

To betroth: to promise in marriage

valedictory: a farewell statement or address :frowning: :wink:

Peaceful: being peaceful to the self.

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callow \KAL-oh, adjective:
Immature; lacking adult perception, experience, or judgment.

perspicacious /per·spi·ca·cious/ adjective:
Having or showing penetrating mental discernment; clear-sighted.

obtuse [adj] slow to understand or perceive; insensitive.

Antidisestablishmentarianism - noun - “The dislike of those who dislike the government”

And about the longest word in the language. :sunglasses:

Tab, Well since you did bring it up…

“Official” longest word

The Guinness Book of Records, in its 1992 and subsequent editions, declared the “longest real word” in the English language to be floccinaucinihilipilification at 29 letters. Defined as the act of estimating as worthless, its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741. In recent times its usage has been recorded in the proceedings of the United States Senate by Senator Jesse Helms, and at the White House by Bill Clinton’s press secretary Mike McCurry. It is the longest non-technical word in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Popular usage

Antidisestablishmentarianism (a 19th century movement in England opposed to the separation of church and state) at 28 letters is often popularly accepted as English’s longest word, and is probably the best-known “longest word.” Other versions such as Antidisestablishmentarianistically and Pseudoantidisestablishmentarianism are demonstrably longer, though, showing that ‘popular acceptance’ is not a guarantee of accuracy. (See also the “Constructions” section below.) “Antidisestablishmentarianism” is actually used seriously in academic and ecclesiastical writing about the Church of England when the concept arises, and although one may suspect that authors have gone out of their way not to avoid it, it does thus have a serious claim to be the longest real word in current English.

The word pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, also spelled pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis, is defined as “a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica or quartz dust.” At 45 letters, it is certainly the longest word ever to appear in a non-technical dictionary of English, the Oxford English Dictionary. However there are strong indications that the word was coined by puzzler Everett Smith in 1935 as a hypothetical long word that could result from the protraction of medical terms. The actual name of the disease is pneumoconiosis, which is 14 letters long.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English

the most important word in english is one of the shortest…

“I”

-Imp

Nice one imp.

Nice one: one that doesn’t contain maliciousness.

Whoo - boy, am I glad I said: “And about the longest word in the language.” :smiley:

Otherwise, well, I wouldn’t have been able to live with myself.

Oops - better include a word in the post somewhere… Er… Racks brain…

Picayune: (adj) means…

C’mon Tab, we’re waiting… :sunglasses:

JT

…and don’t tell us the dog ate the dictionary. :laughing:

JT

Truthful: being truthful to the self.

Woof: Nn/Vb - the sound a dog makes after eating a dictionary.

SET- Single Ended Topology. Often mistakenly referred to as Single Ended Triode, especially with regards to tube amps.

Topology- the study of wigs and dradles

-Imp

an·te·di·lu·vi·an
adj.
Extremely old and antiquated.

whippersnapper (n) youngster, wet behind ears.

Two can play that game, xander! :laughing:

JT

trans·mog·ri·fy (v.)

To change into a different shape or form, especially one that is fantastic or bizarre.