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Colloquy. In the May 1984 Word Ways, Bruce Price discussed the "largestlist of rhyming English words that have a common semantic feature":bash, brash, clash, crash, dash, flash, gash, gnash, hash, lash, mash,pash, plash, rash, slash, smash, splash, stash stashDrug slang nounA place where illicit drugs are hidden , thrash, trash, all"words of terrible action, of great vigor and violence". Anilpoints out that out that quash, squash, swash and wash also havethe--ash ending, even though they do not rhyme with Price's words.All apparently are from unrelated roots (Web 3), and might qualify ascheater's selfish synonyms (May 2004, p 129). But a few othersincluding some of (probable) imitative im��i��ta��tive?adj.1. Of or involving imitation.2. Not original; derivative.3. Tending to imitate.4. Onomatopoeic. origin may be partly related byvirtue of secondarily acquiring the--ash ending, which Chambers'Dictionary of Etymology etymology(ĕtĭmŏl`əjē), branch of linguistics that investigates the history, development, and origin of words. It was this study that chiefly revealed the regular relations of sounds in the Indo-European languages (as described (1988) says is an echoic e��cho��ic?adj.1. Of or resembling an echo.2. Imitative of natural sounds; onomatopoeic: an echoic word.Adj. 1. element in manyimitative words of striking or motion. (Anil would call--sh the actualelement rather than--ash as it occurs in other echoic words such asswish, whish, slosh, splosh Verb 1. splosh - make a splashing sound; "water was splashing on the floor"slosh, slush, splashsound, go - make a certain noise or sound; "She went `Mmmmm'"; "The gun went `bang'"2. , crush, flush, gush, hush, rush, slush slush?n.1. Partially melted snow or ice.2. Soft mud; slop; mire.3. Nautical Grease or fat discarded from a ship's galley.4. A greasy compound used as a lubricant for machinery. .)Quash may be a coincidental self-synonym (see Feb 2004 for others); CDE (1) (Computer Desktop Encyclopedia) What you are reading at this very moment. See About this product.(2) (Common Desktop Environment) A user interface for desktop computing from The Open Group. says it is two distinct but nearly synonymous words--to crush and toannihilate--from different Latin roots. Plash is given in the OED OEDabbr.Oxford English DictionaryNoun 1. OED - an unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principlesO.E.D., Oxford English Dictionary as twodifferent words of related meaning (pool of water, splash of water) butunrelated etymology, ie a coincidental self-affinitive (Feb 1004),although CDE disputes the differences in origin. Errata er��ra��ta?n.Plural of erratum. : In "A Further Modified Ten-Square" LA CAROLINAshould have been written LA CORALINA. In "The Language ofFlowers For the indie pop band, see .The language of flowers, sometimes called floriography, was a Victorian-era means of communication in which various flowers and floral arrangements were used to send coded messages, allowing individuals to express feelings which otherwise " in Kickshaws Kick´shaws`n. 1. Something fantastical; any trifling, trumpery thing; a toy.Art thou good at these kickshawses!- Shak.2. A fancy dish; a tidbit; a delicacy.Some pigeons, . . . , pearl blossom (bottom of p 294) should havebeen peach blossom. In "Letters of the Presidents", Truman (p307) shares letters with two other president, not three. Rex Gooch notesa line was omitted in Will Nediger's "Letter Banks of theCapitals"--Bridgetown should be replaced by Bangladesh, andBarbados has the capital of Bridgetown. In "More Purple Turtles(Part 1)" QX should be Qaqa/Xaxa, and EW should be ET wewe/wtwt. Battus wrote Eric Iverson on "Euler Path Words" lettertopology: "A whole year I lived at St. Anthony's Park and wentto the bakeshop on Como Avenue but did not see I should cut down myPochbirch in the park." Anil comments "Eric Iversonarbitrarily assumed that R is not an Euler Path letter. In some fontstyles it certainly isn't but in others it clearly is, eg BookAntiqua, Century Gothic, Gill Sans Condensed con��dense?v. con��densed, con��dens��ing, con��dens��esv.tr.1. To reduce the volume or compass of.2. To make more concise; abridge or shorten.3. Physicsa. , Matisse ITC ITC(Brit) n abbr (= Independent Television Commission) → Fernseh-AufsichtsgremiumITCn abbr (BRIT) (= Independent Television Commission) → , and TempusSans ITC. In most font types it's ambiguous and the line merelyseems to retrace itself slightly. If that makes it non-Euler then B isalso non-Euler. [However], R is most notably an Euler in almostanyone's style of handwriting." Will Nediger comments on "Awl Wrong's Anagram anagram[Gr.,=something read backward], rearrangement of the letters of a word or words to make another word or other words. A famous Latin anagram was an answer made out of a question asked by Pilate. " inthe August Kickshaws: "Many of my dictionaries and thesauri havedifferent forms of permeate in their entries for impregnate im��preg��natev.1. To make pregnant; to cause to conceive; inseminate.2. To fertilize an ovum.3. To fill throughout; saturate. .Unfortunately, none contain the--ing form. A number of dictionariesincluding the American Heritage dictionary give latent talent as anillustrative example in the definition of talent." Ove Michaelsen writes "In response to [Don Hauptman'sarticle in the November Word Ways], I believe 'Nostalgia isn'twhat it used to be' was the title of the 1978 Simone Signoretautobiography, and am pretty sure that she got it from a graffito graffito(gräf-fē`tō).1 Method of ornamenting architectural plaster surfaces. The designs are produced by scratching a topcoat of plaster to reveal an undercoat of contrasting and deeper color. . Iwrote a song (The Oxymoron Song) in 1979, using the phrase as a punchline, unaware that it was widely known." In "Letters of the Presidents" one should note that agroup of 24 presidents are mutual chums (every one shares at least oneletter with the others): Harrison, Jefferson, Washington, Taylor,Madison, Van Buren, Harding, Roosevelt, Jackson, Cleveland, Eisenhower,Reagan, Monroe, Grant, Hoover, Fillmore, Garfield, Kennedy, Truman,Clinton, Wilson, Ford, Lincoln, Nixon. Had Kerry been elected, he wouldhave formed part of the first group of four mutual strangers: Kerry,Bush, Lincoln, Taft (16 different letters). Anil notes "Darryl Francis's 'Balanced WordPairs' covered much the same ground as Rex Gooch's'Complementary Letters and Words' in the Feb 2002 Word Ways,and should have cited it if not also my 'ComplementaryLetters' which inspired Rex." For more six-letter andseven-letter examples, see "More Balanced Word Pairs"elsewhere in this issue. Dan Tilque accidentally omitted from "The Purple Turtle"in the August Word Ways the examples AS aorta/sorts, AT arosa/trust, FZbuffy/buzzy. He questions the inclusion of XAX in the 25-word set (see"More Purple Turtles, Part 1" p 261) because this is a Kurdishword. Rex Gooch writes "Susan Thorpe [in the November Colloquy col��lo��quy?n. pl. col��lo��quies1. A conversation, especially a formal one.2. A written dialogue.[From Latin colloquium, conversation; see ]upbraids me for using phrases in 'Denser Yet, and Yet LessDense' on the grounds that the article did not always observe herchoice of restriction (to single words). Both my intention and herrestriction were spelled out in the opening paragraph and I cannotconceive of any reader being 'confused'. In my work I try tofind the longest word and the longest phrase for a given case. This canbe very illuminating, for if there is but a single word, but manyphrases, it may indicate that the problem is not so challenging, andthat the absence of more words is just chance. (One might draw theopposite conclusion if there are very few phrases.) The phrases may alsoindicate how to construct a qualifying [single] word. I often discoversayings or phrases which are both new to me and entertaining." As to whether or not 3-hydroxy-4-methoxytoluquinone is a word, Rexwrites "She has missed a point about the chemical terms containingsequences such as '-2-'. I feel obliged to quote the wordexactly as found in the given source, but if the '-2-'s beomitted, you still have a valid chemical compound, or class ofcompounds. The numbers indicate the position in which the group isattached; the groups and molecular formula remain unchanged." Anil writes: "Teem is one of only three words (with rack andtot) listed in both Parts II and III of ["CoincidentalSelf-Synonymy" in the February Word Ways], ie both CoincidentalSelf-affinitives and Coincidental Contronyms. After re-examining teem inWeb 3, Random House Unabridged, Chambers Etymology and Macquarie, I nowbelieve teem belongs in Part Ia as a genuinely unrelated Self-synonym,making it the only coincidental double on record. The two"teems" were the same in ME, temen. The first meant produce,bring forth, give birth to, from OE tieman from OE team, offspring,related to (eg, ox) team, from Proto-Germanic pull, drag, tow. It nowmeans abound, swarm. The second temen meant discharge, pour out, from anearlier meaning of empty a vessel (OE tom), from Scandinavian, and nowmainly means rain in torrents or pour molten metal. Thus they are bothsynonyms (swarm, overflow, pour copiously) and antonyms (abound, befilled, vs. pour out, be emptied)."