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20-04-2024 02:55 PM
20-04-2024 02:55 PM
Re: Word for the Day - Comfort or Play
@PinkFlamingo you’re very kind. It’s one of the ways I amuse myself when I can’t sleep.
Then I forget about the screenshots, until I start going through my photos LOL
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20-04-2024 03:23 PM
20-04-2024 03:23 PM
Re: Word for the Day - Comfort or Play
Hi @Glisten @PinkFlamingo @Shaz51 @ENKELI @Oaktree This word is a beauty.
I was told of it, a few decades ago....
Antidisestablishmentarianism is a position that advocates that a state church (the "established church") should continue to receive government patronage, rather than be disestablished (i.e., be separated from the state).
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20-04-2024 06:35 PM
20-04-2024 06:35 PM
Re: Word for the Day - Comfort or Play
@Adge @Faith-and-Hope @Glisten @PinkFlamingo @tyme
I have always enjoyed the word
onamatopoeia.
It means that a word has been formed from the sound it has, for example sizzle
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20-04-2024 10:58 PM
20-04-2024 10:58 PM
Re: Word for the Day - Comfort or Play
... ok .. on a very drunken 6 day trip to Coober Pedy in eary 90s, met German backpackers amongst others.. they said repeatedly and emphatically 'wish our language had the work *uck .. was funny .. they loved saying it !!
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21-04-2024 10:51 AM - edited 21-04-2024 10:56 AM
21-04-2024 10:51 AM - edited 21-04-2024 10:56 AM
Re: Word for the Day - Comfort or Play
💜🌺🤗 @Glisten ☺️
haha..indeed! I have found the most helpful things in my photos that I’ve taken to remind me - and totally forgot they’re there! 🤭
side note: I found this web site that is AI generating quotes…some are really funny… 😁
and all my fellow forum-ites ☺️🌺
edit: and I forgot to put my word here..!
its Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
I still cannot say it, however it refers to a long term inflammatory lung disorder related to silica dust inhalation
I could never say it when I was teaching! ☺️
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21-04-2024 11:05 AM
21-04-2024 11:05 AM
Re: Word for the Day - Comfort or Play
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21-04-2024 12:22 PM - edited 21-04-2024 12:25 PM
21-04-2024 12:22 PM - edited 21-04-2024 12:25 PM
Re: Word for the Day - Comfort or Play
Indeed @Glisten ☺️
yes, it’s sadly a very avoidable condition… what made me think of it is the recent rise in silica dust related conditions in the construction industry, around manufactured stone benchtops, where evidently construction workers have been exposed while using power tools to cut and polish the manufactured stone that is produced using silica (amongst other industries and means of exposure, discussed here )
in recent times.
With kindness, I hope this isn’t a topic of sensitivity for you 🫂💜🌺🙂
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21-04-2024 02:04 PM
21-04-2024 02:04 PM
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@PinkFlamingo WA Government joined the rest of the country in banning the use of engineered stone in workplaces due to the risk to workers of silicosis.The ban will take effect from July 1, 2024 in Western Australia.
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21-04-2024 02:15 PM
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22-04-2024 01:06 PM
22-04-2024 01:06 PM
Re: Word for the Day - Comfort or Play
Hey @Glisten, does it give pronunciations too?!
Love love love these words, thanks you awesome Perthy 😍