Comments on: some vocab words from 1939

By: megan

megan — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 17:42:53 +0000

except that here “lightyears ahead” means “at least a century behind.”

By: Timothy

Timothy — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 02:06:18 +0000

Vinh, you can redeem your points next time you\’re in the city that misses you back.

Lowell, you and my friend Megan, who takes a constitutional every day and calls it that, are lightyears ahead of us all.

Anne, thanks for the correction. And you earn bonus points and a place in this lexicographer\’s heart for the etymology.

Vazoom!

By: meximese

meximese — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 20:52:54 +0000

I’ll have you know that out here in Oregon constitutionals are a daily part of everyone’s lives. You’d be a right fourflusher to tell me otherwise. It’s a shame you people don’t practice healthy activities, just word games and movies. ‘Course, you bunch of galoots probably can’t walk without your mother’s arm.

I swear to the Lord above, if I see another Michigander try to stake claim in our great state, no doubt I’ll wallop him good.

A car just drove by. It went “vazoom!”

I miss Ann Arbor.

By: Lowell Fletcher

Lowell Fletcher — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 03:03:38 +0000

I will have you know I regularly use ‘constitutional’ as a part of my daily dialect.

By: annes

annes — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 01:10:01 +0000

The word was vamoose – v. – depart hurriedly.

From the Spanish vamos “let us go”.

Hurray vocabulary!