ruzuzu

ruzuzu has adopted no words, looked up 0 words, created 865 lists, listed 40583 words, written 10703 comments, added 0 tags, and loved 2863 words.

Comments by ruzuzu

ruzuzu commented on the word Boops boops

Also see comments on boops boops.

August 15, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word Benjamin Peirce

See comment on idempotent.

August 9, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word idempotent

From the Wikipedia page for Benjamin Peirce: "In algebra, he was notable for the study of associative algebras. He first introduced the terms idempotent and nilpotent in 1870 to describe elements of these algebras, and he also introduced the Peirce decomposition." (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benjamin_Peirce&oldid=1079065220)

August 9, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word loxodrome

Cf. lemniscate.

August 8, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word fodientia

I know it's fashionable to go solo, but there's always a spot for you in almost Solveig.

August 5, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word check-spring

If we don't, I nominate you to make one for us. (Actually, even if we do, I still nominate you to make your own for our amusement.)

August 4, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word bars-gemel

See gemel.

August 3, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word hayz

Not what I was expecting.

August 3, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list crustaceans

I just got gnathostegite as a random word.

August 3, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list lock-me-up

Ooh! An open list!

August 2, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word gimbal lock

See comments on quaternion.

August 2, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list dewdew-drops

Bulla?

August 2, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list algorithm-avoidant-inventions-D25p2r0HK_2pCayeZApKQ

May 35?

August 2, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list not-gonna-fly-Nnyhv4qDQD5cWLDxfRymr

I think it's great (which probably says something about my own lists).

August 2, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word steller

I'm reminded of the joke about a grasshopper that walks in to a bar. The bartender says, "Hey, we have a drink named after you," and the grasshopper says, "You have a drink named Steve?"

August 2, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list things-we-supect-are-collected-by-ruzuzu-SYb-wiljc4sQNMz89j1-P

You know me too well.

July 28, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word fogging

That's fun, Bilby. What era is that from?

July 28, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list topological-verb-adjectives

What a fun list!

July 27, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the user adirgeforher

I like your lists.

July 27, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word why did ruzuzu cross the road

Why did ruzuzu cross the road? To create an open list.

July 27, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list why-did-the---cross-the

That sounds like a perfectly valid reason to cross the road, tankhughes.

July 27, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word genus cerastium

"Chick-weed" makes me think of Twelfth Night: "Give me thy hand, And let me see thee in thy woman’s weeds."

July 27, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the user brokeneye

I like your lists.

July 25, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list seals-8MLRJ_pGUWZovaajZa9W9

Ah, man. Sorry. I guess the list is sealed.
In the meantime, you can send me suggestions. (I'll do some experiments to see whether this has something to do with how I'm creating these lists.)

July 25, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list abbreviations-into-acronyms-QGBtAKUtfn64-q-17Y0TZ

Oh! That's a good one, w. I've also heard people say "I,D" for id. (cf. ibid).

July 22, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word blemmatrope

I hadn't, but I will now.

July 20, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word colter

Hm. Ploughshares cut into swards.

July 20, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word jean dimmock

Has anyone made this into a list yet? It would be hilarious to have jean dimmock as a random entry on a jean dimmock list.

July 19, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the user theoread

I like your lists.

July 18, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word monk seal

(I was beginning to lose faith in the notion that every potential list is an existing list.)

July 18, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word monk seal

Is it possible that we don't have any lists about seals yet?
Edit: Ah. here's a seals-and-sea-lions list, at least.

July 18, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list dayaways

I arrived here after getting wantaways as a random word.

July 18, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the user lupin99

I like your lists.

July 18, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list helmet-CZgXMkbmQU

Your lists amuse me every time you make one.

July 18, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word portrayment

*trips silent alarm*

July 18, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list abbreviations-into-acronyms-QGBtAKUtfn64-q-17Y0TZ

Oh, jinx! I was just coming here to say that about states. Some people's names do this, too: Jo, Ed, etc. (though then there's the whole Elizabeth, Margaret, Betsy, and Bess thing to ponder).
Edit: Wait. Duh. Are you just looking for the ones where you'd say it like an initialism? (In which case this list is even cooler.)

July 13, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word puffball

Puffballs were traditionally used in Tibet for making ink by burning them, grinding the ash, then putting them in water and adding glue liquid and "a nye shing ma decoction", which, when pressed for a long time, made a black dark substance that was used as ink. Rural Americans likewise burned the common puffball with some kind of bee smoker to anesthetize honey bees as a means to safely procure honey; the practice later inspired experimental medicinal application of the puffball smoke as a surgical general anesthetic in 1853.
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Puffball&oldid=1077613917

July 12, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word Tatarian lamb

See barometz.

July 12, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list whoa-black-betty-HQ0x0b_1xVTMD9AXNjsC8

Umbrage! This otherwise perfect list contains no mention of the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary.

July 12, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list professional-wrestling-slang-5V5seeZRNJ54pzXowKeaW

I started out specifically looking for words with "professional wrestling slang" in their definitions, but feel free to make more suggestions (I somehow uncharacteristically created this as a closed list).

July 12, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list food-pellet-flavours-wPzukDApb4zscp4sivXLI

Brackets around "Skinner box Flavour Delivery AlgorithmTM" please.

July 8, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list food-pellet-flavours-wPzukDApb4zscp4sivXLI

Oh, look! A delicious food pellet list!

July 7, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list food-pellet-flavours-wPzukDApb4zscp4sivXLI

*presses lever*

July 7, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word Nicolson pavement

Nicolson pavement, alternatively spelled "Nicholson" and denominated wooden block pavement and wood block pavement, is a road surface material consisting of wooden blocks. Samuel Nicolson invented it in the mid-19th century. Wooden block pavement has since become unfavored because of its poor surface quality and high cost of maintenance.
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nicolson_pavement&oldid=1024698411

July 6, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word Skinner box

Wheat germ, I think.

July 6, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word Skinner box

Oh, look! A delicious food pellet!

July 5, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list sacrilicious-ECwESJQci_b

What a great list!

July 5, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word Skinner box

*presses lever*

July 5, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list not-the-sum-of-their-parts

Bilby just found coinventorship.

June 7, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word coinventorship

Oh, tankhughes, that's marvelous. Thank you! Of course the brilliant sionnach already has a list.

June 7, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word coinventorship

This is great! Is there a name for words such as this—words which are made of other complete words? For instance, I’m thinking carrot is made of car and rot.

June 4, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word whichs

I'm reminded of one of my favorite jokes: Why do witches wear black? So you can't tell which witch is which.

May 13, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word bangboard

I have to admit that I never knew there was a word for this. That'll learn me. Guess I should find myself a good old-fashioned husking bee.

April 28, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list hence

Thanks!

April 28, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the user deku

I like your lists. Welcome to Wordnik!

April 28, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word nabooian

List me, like you did by the lake on Naboo!

April 28, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word feels old and structured, but isn’t

Right? I was also thinking democracy, the internet, biofilms... certain kinds of ice or glass.

April 12, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list slug-like-or-slug-shaped-NGdldFKpNd

My new favorite list.

April 12, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word feels old and structured, but isn’t

Often as I’m waking up from a dream, there will be one last word or phrase that lingers. Today it was a riddle: Name something that feels old and structured, but isn’t.

April 12, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list ras-syndrome-1fFizBdFKE2

I love this list.

April 6, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word 7458

*stalls*

April 4, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word 7458

Me? A stalwart? Aw shucks.

March 30, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list words-in-first-3-wordle-word-guess-list-fEttSrihG8

I've read that POUND, CRANE, and SALET (a variation on sallet) are good to start with, but I like STAMP and STARE.

March 30, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word 7458

I looked up the postal code--7458 must be near 7457. They're both in Hungary.

March 22, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word 7457

Oh, yay! Hi possibleunderscore!
*waves*

March 17, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word 7457

And hi rolig!

March 16, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word 7457

I'm still discovering entries that had gotten the wordie treatment--often when I'm looking up something that I thought was new, but that bilby already entered a citation for in 2009.
Hi bilby from 2009!

March 16, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list scopes-tropes-and-graphs

Likewise, vm.

March 15, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list scopes-tropes-and-graphs

This list is fantastic.

March 15, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word aperiodic

"The phenomenon that (Bradley) Voytek and other scientists are investigating in a variety of ways goes by many names. Some call it “the 1/f slope” or “scale-free activity”; Voytek has pushed to rebrand it “the aperiodic signal” or “aperiodic activity.”"
-- "Brain’s ‘Background Noise’ May Hold Clues to Persistent Mysteries" by Elizabeth Landau (https://www.quantamagazine.org/brains-background-noise-may-hold-clues-to-persistent-mysteries-20210208/)

March 15, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word 7457

I just looked it up again--it's a prime number (but it seems to be a rather boring one).

March 15, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word proleptic

Miss you, qms.

March 15, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list mathematical-words--1

My new favorite list--and currently the only one that lists injective.

March 15, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the user fifeflyer

I like your lists.

March 11, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word sea-urchin

Those are fantastic, vendingmachine. Thank you!

March 10, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word gold-solder

See chrysocolla.

March 9, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list urchins-Q6jhG5tG9_

Please sir, I want some more entries on my list.

March 4, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word heart-urchin

See heart urchin, and compare egg-urchin.

March 3, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list an-obsolete-form-QFYoW1JmA

Thank you. You've just captured all my feelings about The Century Dictionary in general.

March 3, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list a-pocket

Would caries count? (I'm thinking dental caries.)

March 2, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list nuclear-homework-xLoFAN-UQmQG

That's exciting, tankhughes. Congratulations!

March 2, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list have-a-pickle-DjYwdhoxYq

Oh, I am so there.

March 2, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list wiltons-words

My *new* new favorite list.

March 2, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list have-a-pickle-DjYwdhoxYq

Oh, yes--dancing the St. Giles's hornpipe sounds delightful, too.

March 1, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list have-a-pickle-DjYwdhoxYq

This is my new favorite list.

March 1, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word dempne

I can't believe I'm the first person to list this.

March 1, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word the rot

See bane.

March 1, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word bane

"A disease in sheep, more commonly called the rot."
--Century Dictionary

March 1, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word veg*n

See the comments on vegetarian if you dare.

March 1, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word shrewd

I thought you were a veg*n.

March 1, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word continent

See citation on Zealandia.

February 22, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word Zealandia

Then in the 1960s, geologists finally agreed on a definition of what a continent is – broadly, a geological area with a high elevation, wide variety of rocks, and a thick crust. It also has to be big. "You just can't be a tiny piece," says |Nick| Mortimer. This gave geologists something to work with – if they could collect the evidence, they could prove that the eighth continent was real.
Still, the mission stalled – discovering a continent is tricky and expensive, and Mortimer points out that there was no urgency. Then in 1995, the American geophysicist Bruce Luyendyk again described the region as a continent and suggested calling it Zealandia.
-- "The missing continent it took 375 years to find" (https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210205-the-last-secrets-of-the-worlds-lost-continent)

February 22, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word voxel

One of |Jack| Gallant’s graduate students at the time, Alex Huth, used the Gallant lab’s cutting-edge techniques to analyze where the brain might encode different kinds of visual information. Huth, Gallant and their colleagues had participants watch hours of silent videos while inside fMRI scanners. Then, segmenting the data into records for roughly pea-size volumes of brain tissue called voxels, they analyzed the scans to determine where hundreds of objects and actions were represented across the cortex.
-- "New Map of Meaning in the Brain Changes Ideas About Memory" (https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-map-of-meaning-in-the-brain-changes-ideas-about-memory-20220208/)

February 22, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word nebraksa

I have relatives near Jeff City, I lived down by Springfield for a semester, and I have yet to hear anyone there say "Miz-ur-uh."

February 16, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list nuclear-homework-xLoFAN-UQmQG

This is my new favorite list.

February 15, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word Nebraska products

Thanks, vm, I'm fond of it too. I especially appreciate the sandhills, but there are a lot of scenic spots if you're brave enough to venture off of I-80.

February 15, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word Nebraska products

Here's a link to more exaggeration postcards from nebraksa: https://history.nebraska.gov/blog/exaggeration-postcards (my favorite is the grasshopper).

February 15, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list sausages

I knew there had to be a sausage list around here somewhere! I've got an open list, but I'll be yoinking plenty of these.

February 14, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word fenster

"A karst window, also known as a karst fenster, is a geomorphic feature found in karst landscapes where an underground river is visible from the surface within a sinkhole."
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karst_window&oldid=1065338450

February 10, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list pure-science

Hm. I see that sausage body is also here. Is there already a sausage list somewhere?

February 10, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word Lichtenberg figure

See comment on Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.

February 9, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was a well-known German physicist and satirist in the 18-th century. Honoured as an extraordinary professor of physics at the University of Göttingen, he was known to be one of the first scientists to introduce experiments with apparatus in their lectures.
He also maintained relations with other great German figures of the era such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Immanuel Kant. Legendary mathematician Karl Friedrich Gauss is known to have sat on Lichtenberg’s lectures. He is also well known for his discovery of tree-like electrical discharge patterns which came to be known as Lichtenberg figures.
-- From "How You Really Use Mathematics To Define Paper Size" (https://www.cantorsparadise.com/how-you-really-use-mathematics-to-define-paper-size-c2928ba551ec)

February 9, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list pure-science

This is my new favorite list.

February 9, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word pogonius

I have some nice vegan fufluns right here--it's a new recipe. Let me know what you think.

February 7, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word pogonius

"Whenever the TRAHOR FATIS inscription appears, it is accompanied by a seven–pointed “bearded” star (pogonius), raining influence toward Earth and its denizens."
-- From "A Renaissance Riddle: The Sola Busca Tarot Deck (1491)" (https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sola-busca)

February 3, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word open list

See ru open list zuzu.

February 3, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list us-places-named-after-non-us-places-nJSQDngyIS

Sometimes it's hard to switch back and forth once a list has been started--but the moment I can list things, I will.
After all, open list is my middle name.

February 3, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list us-places-named-after-non-us-places-nJSQDngyIS

Thanks v--I would, but it doesn't seem to be an open list.

February 2, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word heartsette

A variation on the card game hearts:
Heartsette is another very early variant that is still played. Its distinguishing feature is a widow. When four play, the 2♠ is removed, twelve cards are dealt to each player and the remaining three cards are placed face down in the centre of the table to form the widow. For other numbers of players, the full pack is used, the widow comprising three cards when three play, two when five play and four when six play. The player winning the first trick takes in the widow and any hearts it contains. That player may look at these cards but may not show them to anyone. Otherwise, the game is played as normal. The key difference from basic Hearts is that the first winner is the only one who knows how many and which hearts are still to be played.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hearts_(card_game)&oldid=1069036466

February 2, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list us-places-named-after-non-us-places-nJSQDngyIS

I think there are various Albions, too--one in Nebraska, one in Iowa.

February 1, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list us-places-named-after-non-us-places-nJSQDngyIS

Nebraska can offer Geneva, Peru, Cairo, Syracuse, York, Prague, and Gothenburg, among others--but there used to be more: Lancaster was renamed Lincoln in 1869, and Berlin changed to Otoe in 1918.

February 1, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word terrel

Also see terrella.

January 28, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word able seaman

See comment on able.

January 28, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word able

From the Online Etymology Dictionary:
Able seaman, one able to do any sort of work required on a ship, may be the origin of this:
"Able-whackets - A popular sea-game with cards, in which the loser is beaten over the palms of the hands with a handkerchief tightly twisted like a rope. Very popular with horny-fisted sailors. |Smyth, "Sailor's Word-Book," 1867|"
(See https://www.etymonline.com/word/Able)

January 28, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list full-of-bull-pE7z8c-MZ0ks

Thanks, vm! Wahoo!

January 20, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list full-of-bull-pE7z8c-MZ0ks

Oh, fun! Will you accept two-word phrases? (I'm thinking bull-beef and bull thistles, &c.)

January 20, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the list in-conchology-2VMvKoRv_hDY

Thank you, yarb. I'm surprised mollusque hasn't listed more of these.

January 19, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word cryptobiosis

"The researchers, based in Singapore, Denmark and Poland, chose a tardigrade to try to entangle because of its ability to enter long hibernation to withstand things like searing heat, freezing cold, extraordinarily high pressures, and high levels of ionizing radiation. This hibernation is called cryptobiosis; the animal desiccates, shedding the moisture from its body, and only reanimates when conditions become more manageable."
-- "Scientists Tried to Quantum Entangle a Tardigrade" by Isaac Schultz (https://gizmodo.com/scientists-tried-to-quantum-entangle-a-tardigrade-1848377578)

January 19, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word struthiolaria

I can't believe I'm the first person to list this.

January 18, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word aporia

"Typically, Socrates' opponent would make what would seem to be an innocuous assertion. In response, Socrates, via a step-by-step train of reasoning, bringing in other background assumptions, would make the person admit that the assertion resulted in an absurd or contradictory conclusion, forcing him to abandon his assertion and adopt a position of aporia."
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reductio_ad_absurdum&oldid=1053094000

December 28, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word sippet

Also see sop.

December 27, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the list caves-and-cave-art-g_6DoyCfC0N9

What a fun list!

December 21, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word Snegurka

"A version of a folk tale about a girl made of snow and named Snegurka (Snezhevinochka; Снегурка (Снежевиночка)) was published in 1869 by Alexander Afanasyev in the second volume of his work The Poetic Outlook on Nature by the Slavs, where he also mentions the German analog, Schneekind ("Snow Child")."
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Snegurochka&oldid=1057246156

December 16, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the list flying-into-snow

Snegurka.

December 16, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word cibus

See the definition on cib.

December 13, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word nether-vert

*trips silent alarm*

December 2, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word blood

(No mention of using soup as a dye for leather, though.)

December 2, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word blood

Oh, ew. The Century has given us this gem: "In leather-coloring, to apply a coating of blood to, in order to obtain a good black."

December 2, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word flesh and blood

Now I'm wondering about the etymology of blood.

December 2, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word flesh and blood

For what it's worth, I'm looking at the online version of the OED (through my library's subscription), and I see the following:
"a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xvii. 11 He maked his son to take fleisse and blode.
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. ii. 153 Whanne hit hadde of þe folde flesch and blod ytake.
1509 Parlyament Deuylles (de Worde) lxxii I..toke flesshe and blode a mayde within.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost i. i. 186 I would see his owne person in flesh and blood."

December 2, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word moleomancy

Not what I was expecting.

November 19, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the user nickpatterson high

Welcome! Nice to see a fellow fan of The Century.
I just saw your question over on the page for the word synchronously. Generally, the best way to show a word is one of your favorites is to log in and select "love" at the top of the page for that word. Hope that helps!

November 19, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word trink

It did occur to me to wonder whether trink and drink were related.
There's an old klezmer song called "Skrip, klezmerl, skripe" where an uncle sings "kh’vel trinken vi a fish/ un vel tantsn bay der khupe," which is translated as "Now I will drink like a fish/ and dance by the wedding canopy," (See here: https://www.milkenarchive.org/music/volumes/view/great-songs-of-the-american-yiddish-stage/work/skrip-klezmerl-skripe/).
But, also, do folks still get thrown "into the drink"? And could we then use a trink to rescue them?

November 19, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word trink

Compare trench and tranche.

November 18, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word cow pat

Compare cow pie.

November 1, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word cow pie

Cf. cow pat.

November 1, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word goatfish

See comments on ahuruhuru.

October 26, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word the ultimate blended threat

Umbrage! Everyone knows it's wasteful to use only half a ruzuzu. What'll you do, stick the ruz in the fridge with some lemon juice? Throw the uzu away? Feh.

October 26, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word mathematical induction

Oh, hey, ruzuzu from 2018--thank you. I was stuck on this again.
This time I'll add that C.S. Peirce also wrote about abduction, but it's the kind of rabbit hole that leads one to muttering about confectio Damocritis.

October 19, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word abduction

"The term “abduction” was coined by Charles Sanders Peirce in his work on the logic of science. He introduced it to denote a type of non-deductive inference that was different from the already familiar inductive type."
-- From the "Peirce on Abduction" section of the online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/abduction/peirce.html)

October 19, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the list youve-got-this-all-wrong-TjaXkcvUHyGZ

This is my new favorite list.

October 13, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word hyaline

I think it's where they play jai alai.

October 13, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word virgule

Adding this to the list of qms poems.

October 11, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word duodenotomy

Smiting seems more like an -ectomy.

September 28, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the user stuartmathergibson

Not sure why bilby is anti-anthesis.

September 25, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the list penny-phases-words

Aha! Here it is.

September 21, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word swine-penny

Do we have any penny lists?

September 20, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word Flower of Kent

"The Flower of Kent is a green cultivar of cooking apple. According to the story, this is the apple Isaac Newton saw falling to ground from its tree, inspiring his laws of universal gravitation. It is pear-shaped, mealy, and sub-acid, and of generally poor quality by today's standards. As its name suggests, this cultivar likely originated from Kent, England."
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Flower_of_Kent&oldid=992761945

September 13, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word bi-quinary

See biquinary.

September 6, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word portcrayon

I hadn't--but I sure will now!

September 6, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word crab wherry

See wherry.

August 27, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word doppelzentner

Not what I was expecting.

August 27, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word odd-come-short

See odd-come-shortly.

August 25, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word herb robert

Also see herb-robert.

August 25, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the user hcarson

I like your lists.

August 25, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the list bells-and-whistles

Oh. Here's one. (See comment on passing-bell.)

August 25, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word passing-bell

Do we have any bell lists yet?

August 25, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the user vendingmachine

Big hugs from me, too. So very sorry for your loss.

August 24, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word takotsubo cardiomyopathy

See takotsubo.

August 24, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word takotsubo

"The name "takotsubo" comes from the Japanese word takotsubo "octopus trap", because the left ventricle of the heart takes on a shape resembling an octopus trap when affected by this condition."
-- From Wikipedia's takotsubo cardiomyopathy page (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Takotsubo_cardiomyopathy&oldid=1032145059)

August 24, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the list may-or-may-not-be-specific-but-it-s-definitely-not-excrement

Ooh. Do we need a new list? I know there are some parasite lists here, but do we need something a bit more specific?

August 22, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word feeder-bar

Maybe just one more.
*press*

August 21, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word feeder-bar

Mphfh.
*coughs*
It’s okay.
*press*

August 21, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word feeder-bar

*press*

August 21, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the list may-or-may-not-be-specific-but-it-s-definitely-not-excrement

Can I get a ruling on whether tapeworms belong on this list or the other list? See here: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/alaskan-bears-occasionally-trail-meterslong-tapeworms-from-their-behinds/

August 20, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word food pellet

*press*

August 19, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word riffly

I love it when my fufluns have grape riffles.

August 19, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word iota

Why I oughta...

August 18, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the list train-smash-words-pAz_VfHOiYXV

My new favorite list.

August 18, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word pyow

*trips silent alarm*

August 17, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word land-beaver

I b'eave you're correct.

August 11, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word land-beaver

How much land would a land-beaver beaver if a land-beaver could beaver land?

August 10, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word origen

Thank you, ry--I had the same question.

August 10, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word QUA

Sine qua non.

July 26, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word perfectoid

In September 2014, |Peter| Scholze was teaching a special course at the University of California, Berkeley. Despite being only 26, he was already a legend in the mathematics world. Two years earlier he had completed his dissertation, in which he articulated a new geometric theory based on objects he’d invented called perfectoid spaces. He then used this framework to solve part of a problem in number theory called the weight-monodromy conjecture.
— “New Shape Opens ‘Wormhole’ Between Numbers and Geometry” By Kevin Hartnett, July 19, 2021 (https://www.quantamagazine.org/with-a-new-shape-mathematicians-link-geometry-and-numbers-20210719/)

July 24, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the list eels

I found tobias fish or "sand eel," which would appear to be another fish that just looks like an eel.
Guess it's time to make another list. (https://www.wordnik.com/lists/eel-shaped-fish-gvtNIN5hT06l)

July 19, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word lanturlu

See the etymology for lanterloo ("French lanturlu, originally the refrain of a sixteenth-century song.")

July 19, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word weebill

Not likely to fall down.

July 18, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the list la-bas-8kJjgQGj4c2h

This is my new favorite list.

July 18, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the list the-universal-calculator

You're right, ry. I couldn't help myself.
And bilby, I'm surprised you haven't added corkscrew or plastic toothpick.

July 18, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word autoantonym

For a list, see this list made by oroboros: https://www.wordnik.com/lists/autantonyms.

May 31, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word emperor

Furthermore, Italian aristocratic titles first originated as military titles: the Latin imperator, “general,” became “emperor”; centurions were called princeps, “first citizen,” eventually “prince”; dux, “leader,” led to “duke”; comes, “companion,” to “count”; late Latin baro, “soldier,” evolved into “baron.”
— “Light in the Palazzo” by Ingrid D. Rowland, New York Review of Books.

May 16, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word s’mores

Compare with smoor.

May 2, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word smoor

This makes me hungry for s’mores.

May 2, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word what the

I once got in trouble for using a phrase I’d heard Flo the waitress say on an old episode of “Alice.” I had turned to a classmate on the playground and said, “Kiss my grits,” but I don’t think any of us—students or staff—actually knew what grits were, so it was hard to defend myself.

May 2, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word elide

Hi rculver00! I just added a comment on your profile about making lists.

May 2, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the user rculver00

Welcome to Wordnik! Just saw your comment on elide. If you press the button that says “love” on the page for a word, that word will automatically show up here under your “Favorites” on your profile. If you decide to make a new list and add a word, everyone can see the list and what you’ve added—but you can set the list up initially so that nobody else can add words to your list. (Open lists are amusing though.) Have fun!

May 2, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word orbisculate

There was just a story about this madeupical word on CBS Sunday Morning:
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/my-word/

May 2, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word oceanic nonlinear internal solitary waves

“On November 1, 2016, NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over Indonesia, allowing the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board to capture a stunning true-color image of oceanic nonlinear internal solitary waves from the Lombok Strait.”
— https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/oceanic-nonlinear-internal-solitary-waves-from-the-lombok-strait

May 1, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word zenzontlruzuzu

Thank you, fbharjo. I love it.

April 7, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word warp speed

“Warp speed” may be a term of the moment, thanks to the federal coronavirus vaccine program. But it’s also one with a history — which goes back farther than “Star Trek,” to a forgotten 1952 science fiction story in the pulp magazine Imagination.
Ditto for “transporter,” “moon base” and “deep space,” to name just a few of the more than 400 words whose origins are getting pushed back earlier than their previously first appearance, thanks to the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction, a new free online resource released on Tuesday.”
— https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/arts/science-fiction-dictionary.html
Here’s a link to that dictionary of “more than 400 words”: https://sfdictionary.com

January 27, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word mum-house

See mum for clarification.

January 15, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word zuzu

RU zuzu? Yes I am.

January 7, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word ru

Why, yes—I am indeed.

December 28, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word plasma

See use in citations on tokamak.

December 28, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word tokamak

“Harnessing this form of nuclear power, though, has proven extremely difficult, requiring heating a soup of subatomic particles, called plasma, to hundreds of millions of degrees – far too hot for any material container to withstand. To work around this, scientists developed a donut-shaped chamber with a strong magnetic field running through it, called a tokamak, which suspends the plasma in place.“
— “Is nuclear fusion the answer to the climate crisis? Promising new studies suggest the long elusive technology may be capable of producing electricity for the grid by the end of the decade.” By Oscar Schwartz, Mon 28 Dec 2020 05.00 EST
(https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/28/nuclear-fusion-power-climate-crisis)

December 28, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word muffin fan

Have you ever seen the Muffin Fan and the Fuflun Man in the same room at the same time?

November 24, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word unsolicited sperm donut

Not what I was expecting.

November 24, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word muffin fan

Do you know the Muffin Fan?

November 23, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word boa constrictor

“Though all boids are constrictors, only this species is properly referred to as a "boa constrictor" – a rare instance of an animal having the same common English name and scientific binomial name. (Another such animal is the extinct theropod dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex.)”
— https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Boa_constrictor&oldid=987837065

November 23, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word bruit de diable

Venus Hum used to open for the Blue Man Group.

November 3, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word attainted

Last I heard, they were opening for Styx on the state fair circuit—but I’m not sure whether the virus has changed their tour plans.

November 2, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word attainted

Mostly I remember being angry at those bouncers—especially the tall one with the bulging thews—but they were probably right about not shooting off fireworks in that enclosed space.

November 1, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word Juan Eduardo Cirlot

“Born in Barcelona in 1916, Cirlot was a composer, a musicologist, an art critic, a translator, and a collector of antique swords. In the 1940s he became well-acquainted with, and translated the poetry of, avant-garde writers such as Paul Éluard, André Breton, and Antonin Artaud.”
From “A Dictionary Takes Us Through the Fascinating History of Symbols: Juan Eduardo Cirlot’s A Dictionary of Symbols has been an invaluable resource for decoding symbols since it was first published in 1958.” By Angelica Frey, Hyperallergic, October 31, 2020 (https://hyperallergic.com/597174/juan-eduardo-cirlot-a-dictionary-of-symbols )

November 1, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the user haiduong2010

Even better if the books being cooked are cook books.

October 15, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word Bradel binding

"A Bradel binding (also called a bonnet or bristol board binding) is a style of book binding with a hollow back. It most resembles a case binding in that it has a hollow back and visible joint, but unlike a case binding, it is built up on the book."
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bradel_binding&oldid=931260546

September 10, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the user jboyd

I like your lists.

September 10, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word giant panda

Is there already a panda list somewhere? I was going to make a pun about pandan.

August 14, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word cultigen

“The word cultigen was coined in 1918 by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858–1954) an American horticulturist, botanist and cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science. He was aware of the need for special categories for those cultivated plants that had arisen by intentional human activity and which would not fit neatly into the Linnaean hierarchical classification of ranks used by the International Rules of Botanical Nomenclature (which later became the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants).”
— https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cultigen&oldid=959642721
Miss you, qms.

August 14, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word hydraulic jump

"An important phenomenon responsible for dissipating energy in a channel is the hydraulic jump. A hydraulic jump occurs in a channel when shallow, high velocity (supercritical) water meets slower moving (subcritical) water. The short and turbulent transition between the two water depths is called a hydraulic jump."
-- https://krcproject.groups.et.byu.net/index.php

August 6, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word sentient six foot animatronic rats

Rodents of unusual size? I don’t believe they exist.

June 27, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word Lothar Collatz

“Lothar Collatz, like most German students of his time, studied at a number of different universities. He entered the University of Greifswald in 1928, moving to Munich, then to Göttingen, and finally to Berlin where he studied for his doctorate under Alfred Klose.”

— https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Collatz/

June 27, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word doomscrolling

Cf. schadenscrolling.

June 22, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word doomscrolling

“Each day brings further entries into the popular lexicon: ventilator, community spread, doomscrolling. (The latter is slang for an excessive amount of screen time devoted to the absorption of dystopian news.)”
— “‘Quarantini.’ ‘Doomscrolling.’ Here’s how the coronavirus is changing the way we talk” by Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, April 11, 2020.

June 22, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word schadenscrolling

“I wouldn't call schadenscrolling a *good* use of a Saturday night, but it beats the hell out of doomscrolling.”
— David Roberts (@drvox) via Twitter

June 22, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word jean dimmock

pseudotirolitid

April 27, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the user chezmoi

Welcome! Would you like to try some fufluns with grape riffles? I'm also experimenting with jimmies.

April 27, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word Plague of Galen

“The Antonine Plague of 165 to 180 AD, also known as the Plague of Galen (after Galen, a Greek physician who lived in the Roman Empire and described it), was an ancient pandemic brought to the Roman Empire by troops who were returning from campaigns in the Near East.”
— https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antonine_Plague&oldid=950227653

April 11, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word jewel box

Oh. Here:
In these many reviews, the preciousness and sensuousness of both the building and the Collection are frequently referenced, often by referring to the building as a “jewel box.” Ada Louise Huxtable, the venerable architectural critic of the New York Times, was perhaps the first to do this. She introduced the building by stating: “Small. Elegant. Its contemporary style has been planned to complement, rather than copy, the Georgian-style mansion to which it is connected by a simple corridor. The effect is of ancient treasures in a modern jewel box.”
-- From "Critical Appraisal of the Philip Johnson Pavilion" by James N. Carder (https://www.doaks.org/resources/philip-johnson/critical-appraisal-of-the-philip-johnson-pavilion (footnote removed))

April 3, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word jewel box

Nice, ry.
For some reason, I associate it most with Philip Johnson.

April 3, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word take umbrage

I see your umbrage and raise you some unjustified indignation.

March 23, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word take umbrage

(See, e.g., marathon of phony umbrage taking.)

March 18, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word umbrage

Also see take umbrage, if you dare.

March 18, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word take umbrage

Umbrage! I can't believe this hasn't been listed more often on this site.

March 18, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word Prince Albert

Do you have Prince Albert in a can?

March 17, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the user vendingmachine

Oh! Are the vending machines running?
*waits two seconds, then shouts*
Then we'd better go catch them!!!
*wanders off to the Prince Albert page*

March 17, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word Me no Leica.

From Wikipedia's page about Walter Kerr: "Notoriously he is credited with one of the world's shortest reviews, "Me no Leica" for John Van Druten's I Am a Camera in the New York Herald Tribune, December 31, 1951." (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Walter_Kerr&oldid=940786768)

March 10, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the list red--2

Wow--this is my new favorite list.

March 6, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word paradoxical undressing

Compare terminal burrowing.

March 6, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word terminal burrowing

Compare paradoxical undressing.

March 6, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word leucocytiform

What time is it when the elephants sit on your northern fence?

March 6, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word postmeatal

Just got this as a random word. How has this not been listed yet?

February 27, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word honestly, it's not for everyone

Maybe nebraksa is the vegan alternative to Nebraska.

February 26, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word honestly, it's not for everyone

Yeah, the most amusing thing to hear in a restaurant around here is "Oh, you're a vegetarian. You eat chicken, though, right?"

February 26, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word honestly, it's not for everyone

Also? Still a better slogan than "Meth. We're on it." https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/south-dakota-s-meth-we-re-it-campaign-funny-state-n1086071

February 24, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word honestly, it's not for everyone

Ashland is great. I took a class there about sewing signatures for bookbinding.
It also happens to be where some of the folks returning from China get to hang out in quarantine whilst they wait to see whether they have the dreaded corona virus. https://www.wowt.com/content/news/Ashland-to-quarantine-70-people-from-China-for-possible-coronavirus-567565231.html

February 24, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word u v v v w v uu v vv

Ha!

February 19, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the user jasonwordperson

I like your lists!

February 19, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the list fight-scene-words-ii--the-fightening

Ooh. Them's fightin' words.

February 13, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the list anagram-poetry

*trips over inert llamas*

February 13, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word Hamilton Walk

See citation on quaternion.

January 24, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word quaternion

The great breakthrough in quaternions finally came on Monday 16 October 1843 in Dublin, when Hamilton was on his way to the Royal Irish Academy where he was going to preside at a council meeting. As he walked along the towpath of the Royal Canal with his wife, the concepts behind quaternions were taking shape in his mind. When the answer dawned on him, Hamilton could not resist the urge to carve the formula for the quaternions . . . into the stone of Brougham Bridge as he paused on it. Although the carving has since faded away, there has been an annual pilgrimage since 1989 called the Hamilton Walk for scientists and mathematicians who walk from Dunsink Observatory to the Royal Canal bridge in remembrance of Hamilton's discovery.
-- from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Quaternion&oldid=936892795

January 24, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word ⎠

Ha!

January 16, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word Aleutian disease

Uh... so has anyone created a ferret list yet?

January 15, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the list 2300af

Would you consider adding ferret?

January 15, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word scatebrous

I love that one definition has "abounding" and the other has "a bounding."

January 15, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word katal

Brackets around moozuzu, please. I'm sure there's a list where you can stick it.

January 15, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word katal

Funny that this is about moles instead of cows.

January 13, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the list worms-s3tPu02Jdkd

What a great list! My favorite is the Diet of Worms, but it seems as if you're going for something else here.

January 13, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word cloud street

Ooh! That's fun.

January 10, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word manchet

Uh, I don't know much about heraldic symbolism--but it sure seems like if Wordnik were to have some sort of coat of arms, then this is the way to include fufluns.

January 3, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word HNY

Harlem, New York.

January 3, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the word Texas Red

Texas Red or sulforhodamine 101 acid chloride is a red fluorescent dye, used in histology for staining cell specimens, for sorting cells with fluorescent-activated cell sorting machines, in fluorescence microscopy applications, and in immunohistochemistry.
-- Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Texas_Red&oldid=897205418)
Also see texas red.

December 30, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the list list-of-heraldry-terms

Thanks for this list, hh. Just arrived here (again) after looking up mullet.

December 11, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word Daimonelix

I've never had any, but that doesn't mean it isn't out there somewhere.

December 10, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word Daimonelix

You might have to travel to nebraksa to find them.

December 5, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the list serious-scrabble-mlfrY38fftk

This is a great list!

December 4, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word Daemonelix

See Daimonelix.

December 3, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word Daimonelix

While exploring the western part of Nebraska, Barbour collected dozens of examples of the giant spiral structures, reporting on them in 1892 and naming them Daimonelix (Greek for “devil’s screw,” often spelled Daemonelix). Their origin was a mystery and there was nothing else like them in the fossil record. After first considering them as possible remains of giant freshwater sponges, Barbour surmised that the fossils of Daimonelix were the remains of plants, possibly root systems, because he had discovered plant tissues inside the helices.
A year later, the legendary American vertebrate paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope rejected Barbour’s interpretation of the fossils, noting that “the most probable explanation of these objects seems to be that they are the casts of the burrows of some large rodent.”
-- From https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-scientists-resolved-mystery-devils-corkscrews-180973487
See, also, ichnology.

December 3, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word ichnology

An animal can only die once, and when it does, there’s a vanishingly slim chance that it will become a fossil: Far, far more often than not, an animal’s carcass will decay and rot until there’s little proof that it ever existed at all. While it’s alive, though, a creature can stamp proof of itself all across the landscape. Ichnology is the study of those preserved tracks, burrows, and other “trace fossils”—and it’s a way for researchers to visualize an animal’s behavior and biomechanics without a body in sight.
-- https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/white-sands-fossil-footprints

December 3, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word précis

See comments on précising.

December 3, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the list best-of-qms-f3E-ECnAs3S

It's hard to narrow down my favorites--qms was prolific, and each one was a gem.

November 25, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the list archaic-words--2

Ha! I just noticed "e-mail message."

November 25, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word herke

Has anyone made a list of Middle English words yet?

November 25, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the list moonblink-Aihj6loFEm

I concur.

November 25, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word Funderdome

Do bilbies prefer the DownUnderDome?

November 25, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word Brodie knob

Thanks, vm--you just answered a question I didn't even know I had!

November 22, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word antisturgeon

When I first saw this, I read it as "antisurgeon," and now I'm trying to come up with a joke about my aunt who is a Christian Scientist and loves caviar. (My auntie who's anti-surgeon but pro-sturgeon, &c.)

November 22, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word soltentanue

Thanks, fb! Had I slept longer, I might have convinced my friend to study Solon.

November 22, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word soltentanue

Dreamed I was at a gas station by a college campus, consoling a friend who’d been told she wasn’t allowed to study Aristotle any longer. I led her over to the used dvds, trying to cheer her up. One of her classmates was there—she had just been to a lecture about poetry. I asked whether there had been any mention of cauliflower as a symbol. She was just starting to say, “Right, so as you know, cauliflower is a soltentanue,” and I was just about to say, “Do you mean solanaceae? I thought it was cruciferous,” but my alarm woke me up before I could question her further.

November 21, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word foomo

Oof. *favorited*

November 18, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word longueur

Does that mean a flaneur is a person who loves spending time on flan?

November 18, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the list french-in-english

Would you consider cul-de-sac?

November 15, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word longueur

Ha. It's like if you took longer and made it even lonnnnnger.

November 15, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word volvelle

Uh, I think the best coffee to accompany custard-filled fufluns is definitely kopi-LEWDwak. Amirite? (Wocka wocka.)

November 5, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the list approved-icelandic-female-names-cH9qECJAzMu6

Fantastic--and I love that you're the first person to list Björk!

November 4, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word Ramon Llull

See citation on volvelle.

November 4, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word volvelle

Leibniz’s central argument was that all human thoughts, no matter how complex, are combinations of basic and fundamental concepts, in much the same way that sentences are combinations of words, and words combinations of letters. He believed that if he could find a way to symbolically represent these fundamental concepts and develop a method by which to combine them logically, then he would be able to generate new thoughts on demand.
The idea came to Leibniz through his study of Ramon Llull, a 13th century Majorcan mystic who devoted himself to devising a system of theological reasoning that would prove the “universal truth" of Christianity to non-believers.
Llull himself was inspired by Jewish Kabbalists’ letter combinatorics . . . which they used to produce generative texts that supposedly revealed prophetic wisdom. Taking the idea a step further, Llull invented what he called a volvelle, a circular paper mechanism with increasingly small concentric circles on which were written symbols representing the attributes of God. Llull believed that by spinning the volvelle in various ways, bringing the symbols into novel combinations with one another, he could reveal all the aspects of his deity.
-- https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/robotics/artificial-intelligence/in-the-17th-century-leibniz-dreamed-of-a-machine-that-could-calculate-ideas

November 4, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the list ice-nomenclature-2YkOZ__kW6GB

Nice!

November 4, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the list retro-names-for-movie-houses-BJX43YqsEME9

Rivoli!

October 31, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word eyeleteers

Dear bilby,
I think your ears are lovely. Now make that list for us!
Yours truly, ruzuzu

October 25, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word 2-8-0+0-8-2s

From "Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun
Plural form of 2-8-0+0-8-2."

October 16, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the list plants-named-after-animals-fJh6uvbbzEBD

You might enjoy madmouth's love-across-kingdoms list--which goes both ways (I think it has animals named after plants, too).

October 16, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word epiploon

I have a list of those! (See found-poetry.)

October 10, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word frequentive

"frequentive (not comparable)
Misspelling of frequentative."
-- https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=frequentive&oldid=54581305

October 4, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word whiffle

"from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
1662, in sense “flutter as blown by wind”, as whiff +‎ -le (“(frequentive)”) and (onomatopoeia) sound of wind, particularly a leaf fluttering in unsteady wind; compare whiff. Sense “something small or insignificant” is from 1680."

October 4, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word magnanerie

Not what I was expecting.

October 1, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word whiffletree

"|F|rom The Century Dictionary.
noun
Same as swingletree."
"|F|rom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun
Same as whippletree."

October 1, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the list interrogative-animals-G78xbJ5pP_Nz

Thanks, ry!

September 25, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the list interrogative-animals-G78xbJ5pP_Nz

It's an open list--have at!

September 24, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the list to-indicate

*favorited*

September 23, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the list chambers-missing-words-syBbU4NnraS1

I like that you're the first person to list sieve of Eratosthenes.

September 23, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the list potential-names-for-our-dog-rg4BuSN2-YNo

I like how if you combine Chimborazo and Rizzo, it almost sounds like Ratso Rizzo.

September 23, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the list interrogative-animals-G78xbJ5pP_Nz

How do we feel about "how"?

September 20, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the list interrogative-animals-G78xbJ5pP_Nz

And minerals are here: interrogative-minerals-d7PvM26GxlBl.

September 20, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the list interrogative-animals-G78xbJ5pP_Nz

All right. I've started the plant list here: interrogative-plants-GGm7K8ksj_aG.

September 20, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the list interrogative-animals-G78xbJ5pP_Nz

I see your point. Should we have a second list for plants?

September 20, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word werewolf

Ooh. That's definitely how I'll start pronouncing it now.
*wanders over to wereweasel*

September 19, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word werewolf

(A HORRIFYING CRY OF A WOLF!)
INGA: Werewolf!
FREDDY: Werewolf?
IGOR: There.
FREDDY: What?
IGOR: (Pointing to the woods.) There, wolf. (Pointing to the castle.) There, castle.
FREDDY: Why are you talking that way?
IGOR: I thought you wanted to.
FREDDY: No, I don't want to.
IGOR: Suit yourself... I'm easy.
--From the movie Young Frankenstein (1974)

September 19, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word whincow

That's excellent!

September 19, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word whincow

So, let's see: whincow... werewolf.
Are there any "what" or "why" animals? (I'm guessing who is reserved for owls.)

September 19, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the user yarb

Agreed! Yarb is excellent.

September 18, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word aleatory

Compare aleatoric.

September 17, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word aleatoriality

See comment on aleatoric.

September 17, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word aleatoric

Wikipedia also offers the following etymology: "The term became known to European composers through lectures by acoustician Werner Meyer-Eppler at the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music in the beginning of the 1950s. According to his definition, "a process is said to be aleatoric ... if its course is determined in general but depends on chance in detail" (Meyer-Eppler 1957, 55). Through a confusion of Meyer-Eppler's German terms Aleatorik (noun) and aleatorisch (adjective), his translator created a new English word, "aleatoric" (rather than using the existing English adjective "aleatory"), which quickly became fashionable and has persisted (Jacobs 1966). More recently, the variant "aleatoriality" has been introduced (Roig-Francolí 2008, 340)."
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aleatoric_music&oldid=896913303

September 17, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word rock milk

See agaric.

September 17, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word Scheele's Green

Copper arsenite.

September 9, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word copper arsenite

Scheele's Green.

September 9, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word poison dress

One appears in the Cate Blanchett movie about Elizabeth I.
I wonder whether dresses dyed with copper arsenite (or Scheele's Green) would fit.

September 9, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word echolocution

That's fantastic. There should be a word for when you're sure you've coined something new, come here to claim it, then see it's already listed.

September 9, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word cryptozoic

See definition on Cryptozoic.

September 4, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word pelite

Cf. psephite.

September 4, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word rang

From the Century Dictionary:
"In petrography, in the quantitative system of classification, a division of igneous rocks lower than the ‘order,’ based on the character of the chemical bases in the preponderating group of standard minerals in each class. See rock."
You rang?
You rock!

September 4, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word soluble glass

See sodium silicate.

September 4, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word sodium silicate

See soluble glass.

September 4, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word atramentum sutorium

See comment on green vitriol.

August 28, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word chalcanthum

See comment on green vitriol.

August 28, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word sory

See comment on green vitriol.

August 28, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word misy

See comment on green vitriol.

August 28, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word green vitriol

"Alum and green vitriol (iron sulfate) both have sweetish and astringent taste, and they had overlapping uses. Therefore, through the Middle Ages, alchemists and other writers do not seem to have discriminated the two salts accurately from each other. In the writings of the alchemists we find the words misy, sory, and chalcanthum applied to either compound; and the name atramentum sutorium, which one might expect to belong exclusively to green vitriol, applied indifferently to both.
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alum&oldid=907117212

August 28, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the list solvents-T8D_61_v9VF

I nominate you to make that list! (Should I ask whether anyone has a theremin I can borrow?)

August 23, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word cass

Funny that there’s a Wiktionary entry that says this is “obsolete,” but nothing from the Century, etc.

August 21, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the user manolito

Excellent.
*polishes tiara*
*polishes off a tray full of Fufluns*

August 16, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word Zez Confrey

"Edward Elzear "Zez" Confrey (April 3, 1895 – November 22, 1971) was an American composer and performer of novelty piano and jazz music. His most noted works were "Kitten on the Keys" and "Dizzy Fingers.""
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zez_Confrey&oldid=908338871

August 16, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the user harpshot

47

August 13, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the user manolito

I think teanner sounds lovely.
But I have so many questions:
Is this English tea and dinner business like the supper/dinner question I deal with in the middle of America?
Must one wear a tiara to tea?
When is bilby inviting us all over?
Should I bring fufluns?

August 12, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word lost for word

I was just looking at the word arm and realized that it could be anagrammed to ram and mar. Is there a word for words where each and every variation in the order of the letters leads to another word?

August 1, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word spectrophotometer

"Visual comparisons by the human eye and a suitable, uniform light source is one method to assess how good an old, now discontinued pigment relates to a new substitute. Another way is to take a measurement using a device called a spectrophotometer that assesses the color reflectance at wavelength segments within the range of visible light detectable by a human eye."
-- https://www.nga.gov/conservation/materials-study-center/amrsc-historic-modern-pigments.html

July 29, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the user qms

I’d been wondering, too. Such sad news.
Thanks for letting us know, Erin.

July 27, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word Kraut und Rüben

Cabbage and turnips. See citation on quodlibet.

July 23, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word quodlibet

One of the Goldberg Variations by J.S. Bach is a quodlibet. Wikipedia says, "This quodlibet is based on multiple German folk songs, two of which are Ich bin solang nicht bei dir g'west, ruck her, ruck her ("I have so long been away from you, come closer, come closer") and Kraut und Rüben haben mich vertrieben, hätt mein' Mutter Fleisch gekocht, wär ich länger blieben ("Cabbage and turnips have driven me away, had my mother cooked meat, I'd have opted to stay"). The others have been forgotten. The Kraut und Rüben theme, under the title of La Capricciosa, had previously been used by Dieterich Buxtehude for his thirty-two partite in G major, BuxWV 250." (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Goldberg_Variations&oldid=903488896)

July 23, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word Word

word to the mother

July 18, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word Echo

See echo.

July 8, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word echo

See Echo.

July 8, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word diapir

"Depending on the tectonic environment, diapirs can range from idealized mushroom-shaped Rayleigh--Taylor-instability-type structures in regions with low tectonic stress such as in the Gulf of Mexico to narrow dikes of material that move along tectonically induced fractures in surrounding rock."
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Diapir&oldid=885376369

July 8, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the list your-mailchimp-randomly-selected-word-from-the-dictionary

Ooh! I'd forgotten about scytale. Nice!

July 2, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word Umklapp scattering

"In crystalline materials, Umklapp scattering (also U-process or Umklapp process) is a scattering process that results in a wave vector (usually written k) which falls outside the first Brillouin zone.
. . . .
"The name derives from the German word umklappen (to turn over). Rudolf Peierls, in his autobiography Bird of Passage states he was the originator of this phrase and coined it during his 1929 crystal lattice studies under the tutelage of Wolfgang Pauli. Peierls wrote, "...I used the German term Umklapp (flip-over) and this rather ugly word has remained in use...."
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Umklapp_scattering&oldid=885935301

June 17, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word blow a kiss to ruzuzu

That explains a lot about my weekend. I would also like to question Wordnik about a few missing socks from my last load of laundry.

June 17, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word magicaer

Oh! It's like The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.

June 10, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word magicaer

I do like the caer part of this--at first it reminded me of the Spanish verb for "to fall," but on Wikipedia there's a bit about it as Welsh for -caster* (though in a castle-y way).
*"Caer (Welsh pronunciation: kɑːɨr; Old Welsh: cair or kair) is a placename element in Welsh meaning "stronghold", "fortress", or "citadel", roughly equivalent to the Old English suffix now variously written as -caster, -cester, and -chester." (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Caer&oldid=895292287)

June 10, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word black swan

"When asked about his father-in-law President Donald Trump, Kushner told CNN's Van Jones: "He's a black swan. He's been a black swan all his life.""
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jared_Kushner&oldid=898710548

June 3, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word magicaer

Compare magic user.

June 3, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word Ole Worm

Worm married Dorothea Fincke, the daughter of a friend and colleague, Thomas Fincke. Thomas Fincke was a Danish mathematician and physicist, who invented the terms 'tangent' and 'secant' and who taught at the University of Copenhagen for more than 60 years.
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ole_Worm&oldid=882439160

May 31, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word Olaus Wormius

Also, see, stalactite.

May 31, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word Olaus Wormius

See Ole Worm.

May 31, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word stalactite

"The term "stalactite" was coined in the 17th century by the Danish Physician Ole Worm, who coined the Latin word from the Greek word σταλακτός (stalaktos, "dripping") and the Greek suffix -ίτης (-ites, connected with or belonging to)."
-- From Wikipedia's "Stalactite" entry (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stalactite&oldid=895316956), which sends us off to the wonderful Online Etymology Dictionary, where (at https://www.etymonline.com/word/stalactite#etymonline_v_21976) we find this: ""hanging formation of carbonite of lime from the roof of a cave," 1670s, Englished from Modern Latin stalactites (used 1654 by Olaus Wormius), from Greek stalaktos "dripping, oozing out in drops," from stalassein "to trickle," from PIE root *stag- "to seep, drip, drop" (source also of German stallen, Lithuanian telžiu, telžti "to urinate") + noun suffix -ite (1). Related: Stalactic; stalactitic."

May 31, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word oscillation

Also see parasitic oscillation.

May 28, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word parasitic oscillation

"Parasitic oscillation is an undesirable electronic oscillation (cyclic variation in output voltage or current) in an electronic or digital device. It is often caused by feedback in an amplifying device."
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Parasitic_oscillation&oldid=886517785

May 28, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word horseapple

Are we comparing apples and oranges?

May 15, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word regmaglypt

Oh, yeah? Try lamp egg, Mr. Apt Leggy.

May 15, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word regmaglypt

Regmaglypts are "thumbprint-sized indentations in the surface of larger meteorites formed by ablation as the meteorite passes through a planet's atmosphere, probably caused by vortices of hot gas."
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_meteoritics#Regmaglypts

May 14, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word most all

Is it a shortened form of almost all?
But, also, it's ringing bells for me about statistics and inferences and Thomas Bayes and (of course!) Charles Sanders Peirce.

May 14, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word coworkers = co + workers or cow + orkers

Yeehaw! Thanks, Buckaroo Bilby.

May 14, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word cowboy shot

Shoot! Well, I still nominate you to, er, put your own brand on it, VM.

May 10, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word cowboy shot

I'm having fun looking--in the meantime, I nominate you to make one!

May 9, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word ambo

Makes me think of arcades ambo.

May 9, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word gumbi gumbi

Also, bilby, is “courier numbat” the same as a pneumatic tube?

May 5, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word gumbi gumbi

Thank you, qms.

May 5, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word gumbi gumbi

No worries! Sorry about the attention span and memory loss. Your limerick game is spot on, and your comments are always great.
Besides--I assume that the ruzuzu born into the timeline of snotty goblets and snooty relatives is probably off wasting precious resources on fancy automobiles and sparkly tiaras.
I'm glad to be here. I'm glad you're here, too.

May 3, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word gumbi gumbi

Wait. Was it goblets or gobbles? I feel my entire destiny rides on this question.

May 3, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the list circus-stuff

What a thrilling list!

May 3, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word gumbi gumbi

By a strange coincidence, "snotty gobbles" was one of my nicknames in high school.

May 3, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word fʊ̈ˈɫɔksʃɚ

*trips silent alarm*

May 3, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word dog's breakfast

“The systems use a dog's breakfast of custom codes and command system, with no standardization, let alone basic security. All systems pose some risk of vulnerabilities, but in this case it's like they didn't even try.“
— “Security researchers reveal defects that allow wireless hijacking of giant construction cranes, scrapers and excavators” (https://boingboing.net/2019/03/15/not-even-trying-2.html/)

March 17, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word circle-squarer

Delightful as always, qms!

March 15, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word zillion

Fun! That's definitely earlier than the OED's first example for it, which is from 1944.

March 15, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word cliche

I was sure this was a bell-shaped hat.

March 6, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the list eyebrow

Perfection! I wish there were a way to set up an alert every time there's a new list from biocon.

March 6, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word pontoon

*swoons*

February 8, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word dimidiate

Well done, qms!

February 8, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word pontoon

Just got cohomology as a random word and thought of this.

February 6, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the list indexers

I do.
Wait.
Does that mean I just read about myself? Ach. *added*

February 6, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word bewusstseinslage

Well, I don't know about that, but there certainly was a time when I was known as the Wordnik Mustard Girl.
edit: Corn on the side.

February 5, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word bewusstseinslage

You could also turn it into a corndog, which would go well with mustard. Silage on the side.

February 4, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word haver

Cf. comment on Haverford.

February 1, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word melamine,

I'm so glad it worked out--commas are such pesky creatures.

February 1, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word Kuzma's mother

Kuzma's mother or Kuzka's mother (Russian: Кузькина мать; Kuzka is a diminutive of the given name Kuzma) is a part of the Russian idiomatic expression "to show Kuzka's mother to someone" (Russian: Показать кузькину мать (кому-либо)), an expression of an unspecified threat or punishment, such as "to teach someone a lesson" or "to punish someone in a brutal way". It entered the history of the foreign relations of the Soviet Union as part of the image of Nikita Khrushchev, along with the shoe-banging incident and the phrase "We will bury you".
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kuzma%27s_mother&oldid=878213572 (which also tells us the following: "Because of the phrase's use in Cold War diplomacy, it became a code word for the atomic bomb. In particular, the Tsar Bomba 50 MT yield thermonuclear test device was nicknamed "Kuzka's mother" by its builders.")

February 1, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word melamine,

Psst... note the comma at the end.

February 1, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word 7457

I was going to see what it would be in Roman numerals, but apparently anything bigger than 3,999 is just too hard to figure out.

January 24, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word jean dimmock

chomp?

January 18, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word jean dimmock

alogical?

January 17, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word tombac

Mottled tarmac.

January 16, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word tombac

Cy Twombly

January 16, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word casemate-truck

"A heavy low carriage mounted on three wheels, the forward wheel being pivoted to facilitate changes of direction: used for transporting cannon and ammunition within the galleries of permanent works."
--from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

January 15, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word windage

"The play between the spindle of the De Bange gas-cheek and its cavity in the breech-screw: it is expressed in decimal parts of an inch, and is measured by the difference between the diameters of the spindle and its cavity."
--from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

January 15, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word fomite

Also see fomes.

January 15, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word tombac

emetic ipecac

January 15, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word tombac

Montserrat Caballé.

January 14, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word tombac

Portal tomcat.

January 14, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word lewth

Forsooth.

January 14, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word lenok

"Lenoks (otherwise known as Asiatic trout or Manchurian trout) are a genus, Brachymystax, of salmonid fishes native to rivers and lakes in Mongolia, Kazakhstan, wider Siberia (Russia), Northern China, and Korea."
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lenok&oldid=853445221

January 10, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word mellophone

Dude.

January 10, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word almost Solveig

Anyone have a mellophone I can borrow?

January 10, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word Buzzbyfeed

See Ten.

December 28, 2018
ruzuzu commented on the word Ten

Thank you, Buzzbyfeed.

December 28, 2018
ruzuzu commented on the word Ten

Brackets around Buzzbyfeed, please.

December 27, 2018
ruzuzu commented on the word criminelly

I'm imagining the sitcom now. Equal parts Will & Grace, Cagney & Lacey, and Turner & Hooch, "Crime & Elly" is the story of Elly, a by-the-book manager at a coffee shop, who teams up with "Crime," a corgi who happens to be an undercover detective.

December 26, 2018
ruzuzu commented on the word criminelly

One of the managers came over and fixed it--it'd be great if her name were Nelly.

December 26, 2018
ruzuzu commented on the word criminelly

Two days ago, I went to a coffee shop. The guy at the cash register was trying to ring me up, but his computer screen kept giving him trouble. "Criminelly," he said.
I'd only ever heard it as criminently. I assume any variations come from criminy.

December 26, 2018
ruzuzu commented on the word Chrismon tree

I'm not sure. Perhaps someone should fund a research trip for me.

December 20, 2018

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tsukum commented on the user ruzuzu

I just noticed for the first time your kind comment on my profile!! Thank you!! I like your lists! They've served as many an inspiration for me.

March 29, 2018
ruzuzu commented on the user ruzuzu

Yum! Thanks.

May 17, 2016
bilby commented on the user ruzuzu

Hey zuzu, hummus detected at botryoidal!

May 17, 2016
ry commented on the user ruzuzu

so myriad led to banzai via tags and I added that...therefore banzai, ruzuzuzuzuzu

July 20, 2015
ruzuzu commented on the user ruzuzu

Thank you, bilby. As you know, I'm also fond of misheard-numa-numa-lyrics.

June 22, 2015
bilby commented on the user ruzuzu

This made me think of you: http://www.metrolyrics.com/song-ml-video-cea.html
It was probably the bananaphone.

June 18, 2015
markusloke commented on the user ruzuzu

I only just recently noticed that there's a comments section! Yikes! Anyways, unreal-laurens-friend-finder is up and running and needs contributions! So many exclamation points!

June 16, 2015
ruzuzu commented on the user ruzuzu

Eek! TankHughes, I'm glad I was able to point out that list to you, but I'm sorry to contribute to the demise of another. May I console myself with the thought that you'll eventually replace it with a new list for our amusement?

April 23, 2015
TankHughes commented on the user ruzuzu

I'd respond to you on my list... BUT I DELETED IT! *shock* It made more sense to add my 4 to tbtabby's Location Slang list instead. I'm happy someone else has made a large list that I can legitimately add Canadian tuxedo and Mexican wave to.

April 21, 2015
qms commented on the user ruzuzu

Thank you for your kind comment of December 15, ruzuzu. It pains me to have overlooked your comment for so long but, in the absence of the Community page, I seem to have been looking in the wrong places for evidence of activity. I had begun to fear that I was the only one still visiting regularly.

When I last communicated with Erin she wrote that she had a fix for the Community page but was having difficulty getting it installed on the server. I think it is possible we will not have the Community page back until after the holidays. I hope people will not have lost the habit of visiting.

I hope your holidays are happy ones.

December 22, 2014
ruzuzu commented on the user ruzuzu

Nope. Just dry pita pocket editions.

August 11, 2014
bilby commented on the user ruzuzu

Hey babe, read any good hummus books lately?

August 10, 2014
ruzuzu commented on the user ruzuzu

Thanks, bilby. I needed that.

July 21, 2014
bilby commented on the user ruzuzu

Can you ask around for me then? I'm sure they come from Riga.
*chortle chortle chortle*

July 18, 2014
ruzuzu commented on the user ruzuzu

I'm really only a half-Lat. I have no idea what a marole is.

July 18, 2014
bilby commented on the user ruzuzu

What is a marole? I thought I might as well ask a Latvian.

July 18, 2014
mollusque commented on the user ruzuzu

I don't know of a list for obsolete and disused science terms. Maybe time to start one?

May 11, 2014
marky commented on the user ruzuzu

some more of my random freak out lists!
https://www.wordnik.com/lists/things-that-freak-me-out
https://www.wordnik.com/lists/trees--2
https://www.wordnik.com/lists/art-forms-that-freak-me-out

March 28, 2014
madmouth commented on the user ruzuzu

I vote we name the inherent sound of fun ruzuzurrus

March 19, 2014
Prolagus commented on the user ruzuzu

And so do I!
But I don't understand how we are supposed to find this █████ comment box on one's profile.

February 21, 2014
bilby commented on the user ruzuzu

Hi ruzuzu. Bovine traces detected over at jomo.

December 13, 2013
napoleonic commented on the user ruzuzu

Hey ruzuzu, I have tripled the length of your calculator words list - hope you like it!

May 13, 2013
fbharjo commented on the user ruzuzu

I haven't heard her perform. I did have a chance to listen to her read some of her poems. She did them more than justice!

April 16, 2013
fbharjo commented on the user ruzuzu

I knew she plays the sax. Have you read 'Crazy Brave' yet?
I wonder how many people realize the etymological significance of the title.
Playing the sax is 'crazy brave' of course.
The sax is the ultimate soul instrument with its long neck and throaty sound (see nephesh)
My niece Ramona has taught me that well!
She has 'crazy brave' in her blood, too.

April 16, 2013
ruzuzu commented on the user ruzuzu

Me? Why?
*retaliates with a volley of fufluns*

January 28, 2013
bilby commented on the user ruzuzu

Fonk you, ruzuzu.

January 28, 2013
bilby commented on the user ruzuzu

gallbladder!

December 13, 2012
Prolagus commented on the user ruzuzu

Spent the past half-hour reading your lists and almost choking on them. Love you!

December 5, 2012
mollusque commented on the user ruzuzu

Thanks for sharper ruzuzu!

November 8, 2012
dommy commented on the user ruzuzu

um............................... hi

October 4, 2012
word_turd commented on the user ruzuzu

"ruzuzu has looked up 87912 words"
OMG get a life u loser. seriously who looks up words and then comonts on them like...pfft

July 24, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the user ruzuzu

*yawn*

July 22, 2012
word_turd commented on the user ruzuzu

Ruzuzu you smell and your stupid and i think ur dumb 2 44s i mene wtf u evn @m a& u no wht i mee????????.....

July 22, 2012
deinonychus commented on the user ruzuzu

Thanks for the red admiral! By the way, I borrowed some of your spiders for my own little collection.

July 10, 2012
gulyasrobi commented on the user ruzuzu

Hi ruzuzu.
It took me a while to find this reply box.
Thank you for the welcome message.
Please feel free to comment on my lists or add words to them.
Robert

May 22, 2012
aishababe commented on the user ruzuzu

Hello,
Am a young single girl never married seeking true love for a long term relationship with marriage potentials,i am happy to contact you because you cut my interest! i will love us to be good friends or a lot more, you can contact me through.(aisha.arop@hotmail.com)so that i will send you my photos,till i hear from you, bye and kisses!
Miss Aisha

May 16, 2012
oroboros commented on the user ruzuzu

Huh! Can't even make the pronunciations play at "hot dog"....go figure. ACK!

April 25, 2012
oroboros commented on the user ruzuzu

So, the feedback page is otiose? 'Zu, are you able to create pronunciations? I'm having no luck at all. Is it broke? Can we access pronunciations of old?

April 25, 2012
Prolagus commented on the user ruzuzu

And I less than three you! Miss you guys. You know how it feels sometimes, though... I visit often but can't find anything to add to the conversation.
I really wish there was an easier way to follow threads. If you don't spend lots of time here, you have to open all links on the Zeitmunity page. There has to be a different way!

March 29, 2012
oroboros commented on the user ruzuzu

Thanks, 'zu. I probably would have found it eventually if I'd spent more time. Cheers!

March 16, 2012
erinmckean commented on the user ruzuzu

oh thank you, good catch!

February 1, 2012
dhuber commented on the user ruzuzu

Thanks! Start -geddon ready to add some words...
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/geddon--1

January 29, 2012
klezmusic commented on the user ruzuzu

Glad you liked my definition of Bulgar - I'm a total newbie. Don't know how to create a list, or what its purpose is, or how to use it, etc. Tips?

January 20, 2012
nayanlaldas commented on the user ruzuzu

hututu....??
search engine optimization service

January 15, 2012
pterodactyl commented on the user ruzuzu

What's all the fuss about <3' secret messages? Ah! I see! Can it really be as simple as hiding messages behind' hearts?

January 14, 2012
yarb commented on the user ruzuzu

Perhaps I'm <3' not' as smart as I think I am.

January 13, 2012
yarb commented on the user ruzuzu

Hmm.

January 13, 2012
yarb commented on the user ruzuzu

Dear ruzuzu,
You are <3' the opposite of' a terrible bore.
Yours with no <3' thing but' fondness,
Yarb.

January 13, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the user ruzuzu

Thanks, Pro!

January 13, 2012
Prolagus commented on the user ruzuzu

<3'<3'<3'

January 13, 2012