war's gay
A-ha, now this is one of the things the Web does best: utterly pointless, but entirely engrossing. It's a thing which ranks the 86,000 most frequently-used English words in order of commonality. Muchos fun can be had trying to find particularly fine juxtapositions -- so I looked up "gay" (no surprise there) and discovered it is preceded by "wars". Stick in a spare apostrophe (let's face it, the world is littered with them) and you get a concise yet deep adage. Embolden the second word and you even get a nice playground overtone to it. Marvellous. Let's see what else I can come up with ...
... "bollocks" and "calorie" seem fairly well suited to one another ...
... potential band names are rife :: on TOTP tonight, the peterborough monkey treasures! ...
... there's even some new stuff for the politicians -- "Arse-Fading Bullets Directive" anyone? ...
... parents might like "Mum Aid: Completely Cash. Flat Fifty." ...
... topically, Oxford is next to Animals (closely followed by Culture) ...
Unfortunately, GayLord is not currently in the archive. For shame; the archive is calculated from the contents of the British National Corpus, "a 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent an accurate cross-section of current English usage". I don't see how an accurate cross-section of current English usage can possibly fail to incorporate the word "gaylord". Tsk.
Incidentally, the word "tsk" is included, and is happily situated next to "malingering". I feel these are just the kinds of words that are going to get on.
"Tsk" is preceded by the bizarre "squinches", from the verb "to squeeze, twist or draw together". Well I never.
And so forth ad infinitum! Go play!
posted by Raps @ 4:33 PM
2 Comments:
Oh wow, what a fab thing. Have looked up a few very important words and come up with the following:
Seventh myth: skirt-measuring scales; Louise pays rightly.
Dust evaluation: shirt samples frequency; Charlie lists night.
Dot invisible invented Pete.
Normal couple reached Peter - serious throughout, quickly developed lower worth.
Leo ensures riots!!!
"Leo ensures riots" -- he certainly did at 4.30am this morning, no? I'm amazed and impressed that someone of his girth and general laziness managed to get up a flight of polished wooden slatted stairs. It's quite a feat. Particularly hilarious given your lack of bedroom door! Hahahaha. Go Leo, I say.
BTW world, Leo is a cat.
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