Disemvowel (disemvowelled, disemvowelling): to moderate an objectionable comment or passage by removing its vowels. The word was invented on 21 November 2002 by Arthur Hlavaty.
I suggest this word be adopted to describe the effect produced when text constrained to a certain column width by the use of a hard return at the end of each line is copied and pasted into a field that requires a narrower line length, resulting in each line being broken into one longer and one shorter segment.
IMO, "icicle" has the best set of alternate spellings I know of. Check out its etymological entry on this site. Not all the forms listed there are English, but almost all of them are recognizably the same word.
Comments by tnh
TNH commented on the word commentariat
The body of regular commenters found on a site, forum, or other venue, as in "the Making Light commentariat" or "DKos's commentariat."
June 11, 2009
TNH commented on the word disemvowel
Disemvowel (disemvowelled, disemvowelling): to moderate an objectionable comment or passage by removing its vowels. The word was invented on 21 November 2002 by Arthur Hlavaty.
June 11, 2009
TNH commented on the word indentilly
I suggest this word be adopted to describe the effect produced when text constrained to a certain column width by the use of a hard return at the end of each line is copied and pasted into a field that requires a narrower line length, resulting in each line being broken into one longer and one shorter segment.
June 10, 2009
TNH commented on the word icicle
IMO, "icicle" has the best set of alternate spellings I know of. Check out its etymological entry on this site. Not all the forms listed there are English, but almost all of them are recognizably the same word.
June 10, 2009