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This was my reference to 'wintry Narnia?  No, it wasn't meant to be, John. It was just a general waffly thought prompted by the use of 'wintry' rather than 'wintery' on all the news websites and so on. 'Wintry' seemed to have gained the ascendency when I thought it was, or used to be, the 'alternative' spelling. Google hits give the palm to 'wintry' as well. I'll happily bend my ways in future to go with the democratic majority: 'wintry' it shall be. Anyone for 'summry'? |
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As in a summry of todays weather?
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summry weather will continue?
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Autumny and springy never quite caught on, did they?
So we have autumnal of course. What do we say for spring?
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Autumny and springy never quite caught on, did they?
So we have autumnal of course. What do we say for spring?
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« Reply #544 on: 11:49:20, 07-04-2008 » |
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 Full of the joys of vernality.
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« Reply #545 on: 12:04:24, 07-04-2008 » |
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Autumny and springy never quite caught on, did they?
So we have autumnal of course. What do we say for spring?
What's wrong with vernal? Baz Nothing in itself I guess. I was kind of hoping for something with the word 'spring' in it though. |
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« Reply #546 on: 12:26:48, 07-04-2008 » |
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Autumny and springy never quite caught on, did they?
So we have autumnal of course. What do we say for spring?
What's wrong with vernal? Baz Nothing in itself I guess. I was kind of hoping for something with the word 'spring' in it though. spring-like? |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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Autumny and springy never quite caught on, did they?
So we have autumnal of course. What do we say for spring?
What's wrong with vernal? Baz Nothing in itself I guess. I was kind of hoping for something with the word 'spring' in it though. spring-like? Thinking of daffodils and "springy", what about this...  |
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« Reply #548 on: 13:29:01, 07-04-2008 » |
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Click me -> About meor me -> my handmade storeNo, I'm not a complete idiot. I'm only a halfwit. In fact I'm actually a catfish. |
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« Reply #549 on: 13:44:25, 07-04-2008 » |
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Zébulonesque alors ?
I do wish we had a word like printanier though. Or that we could just hang Frühlings- off the beginning of words...
(Um, Sudden, you can also use spring as an adjective. Der...)
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haute-bourgeois Even the most ardent Anglophobe would surely have to admit that among the tongue's great advantages is surely the fact that one doesn't have to wonder about gender agreement... |
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Dido isn't normally spelled with an "L" is it?  It was a standard elision in the baroque era, I have been informed. |
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« Reply #552 on: 19:51:29, 23-04-2008 » |
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it's like fragments all strung together giving hints about what may have once laid in between.
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #553 on: 23:25:36, 23-04-2008 » |
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Ah, thank you tinners. 'Lain' I guess? One learns something new each day, does one not?
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"It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set"
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