Comments on: Two New Lists!!

By: Jane Grieve

Jane Grieve — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:15:57 +0000

Jincy – I love the name Jincy Willett – did you make it up? Fabulous. And I loved your book “The Writing Class”, which is the only one of yours I’ve read so far having just discovered it. If I lived in the US I would take one of your classes but I don’t, I’m an Aussie. I appreciate your use of words, it’s great. Of course, you Americans make up words and change the spelling -’pajamas’ – Ha! You mean ‘pyjamas’ – I could go on, but vive la difference and all that. I hate to have to admit that some Australians use the word “pant” to describe one pair of pants, so that blows that one. (They think it’s rather a posh thing to say.)
Anyway, you go girl; what a great mind! Best wishes Jane Grieve (tallish, short-real-life-story writer who will, apparently, never make big bucks WHAT A SHAME, DAMN DAMN DAMN. Oh well.)

By: Jincy

Jincy — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:55:20 +0000

Good point, but don’t we typically say “towhead”?

By: Jenny Brown

Jenny Brown — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:42:38 +0000

What about “tow-colored”?

By: Jincy

Jincy — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:08:05 +0000

No, because more then “one thing” can be flaccid. By the way, do you know that it’s pronounced “flak-sid” rather than “flassid”? Doesn’t that sound wrong?

By: justkristin

justkristin — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:36:46 +0000

Is “flaccid” so far off from “tumescent” in belonging to that first list? Hmmm…

By: Jonathan Harnum

Jonathan Harnum — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:54:53 +0000

1. ADJ: wine-dark