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First Lists

A list of 31 words by blafferty.

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Do you remember your first list? The one that *sniff* started it all? The rocky road to Wordie/nik addiction?

What does your first list say about you?

I will add your list as a word, and link to your list as a comment on the word, if that works for everyone.

Since people are only findable if they are present via comments (as far as I know), please add people yourself if you see them and they aren't here!

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  • blafferty commented on the list first-lists

    frogapplause, marky, add yours and commentlink them if you please!

    May 18, 2011

  • PossibleUnderscore commented on the list first-lists

    Cool list!

    May 18, 2011

  • sionnach commented on the list first-lists

    This list raises the interesting question - what was the first word you listed?

    Now, it appears that this question may be easier for some Wordies to answer than for others. Because if, like me, you were a lazy slob back in the early days, your first list may be your default catchall list and have more than 3,000 words in it. It used to be that one could list one's words in the order added; now it seems that one can only list them in the reverse order added. Which means I would have to scroll through 30+ screens to get to my very first word. Which I am not interested enough to do.

    But maybe there is another way? Any hints?

    May 18, 2011

  • yarb commented on the list first-lists

    I'm sure you used to be able to view a given Wordnik's activity, i.e. everything they've done, listing, commenting, favouriting, tagging etc., and click through back to the very beginning. But now I can't find it.

    May 18, 2011

  • ruzuzu commented on the list first-lists

    Sionnach, the 3281st word in "Sionnach's words" is contumely (if that helps).

    May 18, 2011

  • ruzuzu commented on the list first-lists

    My first word was "here."

    May 18, 2011

  • rolig commented on the list first-lists

    The first list I cared about was "fibrous words", and the first word I commented on (with a citation) was ilex, but I can't figure out what me very first word was, perhaps inveigle.

    May 18, 2011

  • blafferty commented on the list first-lists

    ruzuzu, that is very funny. Were you reporting your attendance?

    May 18, 2011

  • blafferty commented on the list first-lists

    I guess the first word I listed was pejorative, and my first comment was there, too.

    May 18, 2011

  • mollusque commented on the list first-lists

    There is an easier way, sionnach. For a list with more than 100 words, divide the number of words on the list by 100, add one to the part to the left of the decimal, and append it to the list URL:

    May 20, 2011

  • fbharjo commented on the list first-lists

    one of my first words is cicurant.

    See a comment on my trail through wordie/wordnik there.

    May 20, 2011

  • blafferty commented on the list first-lists

    Very clever, mollusque. Thanks for listing yours, marky.

    May 20, 2011

  • mollusque commented on the list first-lists

    I made my first word list sometime in the 1970s. Chromonyms, the oldest list I have good records of, was started in the early 1980s, although it wasn't my first Wordie/Wordnik list. Panvocalic was my first word.

    May 20, 2011

  • ruzuzu commented on the list first-lists

    I actually remember the word that led me here. I'd been to a dinner party with some friends--after a few drinks, we got out the compact OED to look up the etymology of the word gin and saw that it had a funny meaning about traps. The next day, I thought I'd see whether the internet could provide me with any more insight--I saw the comments on gin (and the names of the lists), and I was hooked. Looking at the word again just now, I note that it can be a coal-mining term, that one of the definitions has the word specifically in it, and that it can also be a instrument of torture.

    Awwwww.... *gets a little teary-eyed with love for this site*

    May 20, 2011

  • reesetee commented on the list first-lists

    My first list with any kind of "theme" was Bad Guys, although like sionnach, my actual first list was a catch-all of favorite words. It's been changed many times since then so it doesn't actually exist anymore.

    Can't even begin to figure out what my first word here was.

    May 20, 2011

  • yarb commented on the list first-lists

    I discovered Wordie while browsing the "also on" drop-down list on Librarything. The first word I listed, and still one of my favourites, was donkeyman, which I'd found in a novel not long before. My second might have been poopyhead.

    May 20, 2011

  • blafferty commented on the list first-lists

    'zuzu, I love that you have the kind of dinner parties where people get out the OED!

    May 20, 2011

  • ruzuzu commented on the list first-lists

    Thanks, but... um... doesn't everyone have those kind of dinner parties?

    May 20, 2011

  • blafferty commented on the list first-lists

    I must admit some of mine have devolved into science projects.

    May 20, 2011

  • chained_bear commented on the list first-lists

    zuzu, would that were true.

    May 20, 2011

  • Prolagus commented on the list first-lists

    ruzuzu: you forgot to add that gin is also a "Word sung by Belle and Sebastian".

    May 20, 2011

  • ruzuzu commented on the list first-lists

    Prolagus: I think that was the list that hooked me. :-)

    May 20, 2011

  • Wordplayer commented on the list first-lists

    Thanks for adding mine blaf

    May 22, 2011

  • blafferty commented on the list first-lists

    No problem, Wordplayer! I added everyone whose comment showed in the zeitgeist for the last 3 days (at the time). I'll continue as I see people who didn't come up before!

    May 22, 2011