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[games] Today in "why is this a legitimate scrabble word".....
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loobies????????
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Apparently a plural of 'looby', a 'stupid or foolish person'?
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Wow.
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'Fid': a tapered pin used in opening strands of rope
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'Pice': a former Indian coin worth 1/64 of a rupee
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'Eugenol': a colourless or pale yellow oily liquid found in oil of cloves and used in perfumery
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'Isobar': a line on a map connecting places of equal atmospheric pressure; or any two atoms having the same mass but different atomic numbers
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....................'Bel': a unit for comparing two power levels, equal to the logarithm to the base ten of the ratio of the two powers (LOL)
YouKnowWhoIAm
Isobar I knew, the rest are new. /reads in fascination
YouKnowWhoIAm
And heeee, Bel.
Ptriciadactyl
Yeah, same, isobar sounded familiar.
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I think I may have heard it in chem 101 over a decade ago, but had completely forgotten it. XD
YouKnowWhoIAm
They use it on weather reports over here all the time.
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Oh, awesome!
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..Today in witalsw: 'ut', the syllable used in the fixed system of solmization for the note C, and 'nom', meaning 'nominal' or 'nominative', as used in 'nom de guerre' or 'nom de plume'.
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'yirth': Scottish word for 'earth' I just
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scrabble.
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'khi': a less common spelling of 'chi'
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('ki' and 'qi' are also legal, and a good way to use up your k or q)
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I knew 'cooee' from that one Holmes story but didn't know it was in the dictionary
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and who knew 'meiosis' was a variant spelling for 'myosis' and 'miosis'
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or that 'abysm' was the archaic-noun origin of 'abysmal'
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or that 'airglow' spelled as a single word means the faint light from the upper atmosphere in the night sky?
YouKnowWhoIAm
Neat!
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Yep!
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'Zooglea': variant spelling of 'zoogloea', a mass of bacteria adhering together by a jelly-like substance derived from their cell walls
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(can also be plural!)
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'Dace': a type of fish that lives in rivers and lakes
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'Oidia': plural of 'oidium', any of various fungal spores produced in the form of a chain by the development of septa in a hypha
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'Zin': apparently related to 'zinfandel', a dry red table wine made from a small black grape that is grown chiefly in California; also the grape
DryadGurrl
I knew Dace, because of Animal Crossing
DryadGurrl
and Zin, too, actually /Californian
DryadGurrl
I like this plurk, this is a good plurk
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:-D<3
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'Zin' would have thrown me off if I'd known it because I would've thought it was a capitalized brand name, but apparently it passes since it's also the grape.
YouKnowWhoIAm
Dace I knew too.
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'Kaif': a variant of 'kif', marijuana-induced euphoria.
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'Tef': an annual grass, Eragrostis abyssinica, of NE Africa, grown for its grain.
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'Toea': a monetary unit of Papua New Guinea, worth one-hundredth of a kina.
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'Foin': a thrust or lunge with a weapon; also used as a verb.
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'Surah': a twill-weave fabric of silk or rayon, used for dresses, blouses, etc; from the French pronunciation of 'surat'.
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'Enisle': to put on or make into an island?????
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'Suq': a variant spelling of 'souq' (marketplace). Useful employ for a Q.
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'Kevil': a sturdy belaying pin for the heavier cables of a ship.
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'Yeh': a variant spelling of 'yeah'. Seriously, scrabble??
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'Jeton': a variant spelling of 'jetton', a counter or token, especially a chip used in such gambling games as roulette.
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In other news I love when I can get twenty or thirty points with two letters.
YouKnowWhoIAm
yesss
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'Mirza': title for a royal or dignitary (from Persian)
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....but for some reason 'oodle' isn't a word. (thinking)
Ptriciadactyl
is oodles?
Ptriciadactyl
I think oodles is always plural.
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Hm, idk! I'll check next time I open the game.
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"Oodles" is a valid word in this version! Merriam-Webster stands corroborated, Ptriciadactyl !
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'Dhobi': in India, a person who does laundry
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'Equid': an animal of the horse family (I knew 'equine' but not 'equid')
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'Vasa': plural of 'vas' (biology), a vessel or duct
YouKnowWhoIAm
Interestingly, in Royal Navy slang, 'dhobi dust' means washing powder.
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Huh!!
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