=SDC= Q09: 10
Vinny Burgoo
second has sixty-three; the third has seventy-five; the last has
seventy. The others are shorter. The illustrator is well known for
illustrating books by an author whose first name is spelled the same as
a common English word, a cognate to a Latin word whose feminine
accusative plural was borrowed into English as what word?
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VB
Vinny Burgoo
The first of ten.
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VB
Totally Official
franzi
coriaceas).
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franzi
Vinny Burgoo
Are you being chorizontal?
(That's not a clue. I just wanted to show off a new word.)
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VB
LFS
Lying down eating sausage?
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Laura
(emulate St. George for email)
Vinny Burgoo
No, that's 'flatwursting'.
'Chorizontal' means 'ascribing a work to more than author'.
Piff! I thought everyone knew that.
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VB
R H Draney
>
>In alt.usage.english, LFS wrote:
>>On 19/08/2011 13:04, Vinny Burgoo wrote:
>>>
>>> Are you being chorizontal?
>>>
>>> (That's not a clue. I just wanted to show off a new word.)
>>
>>Lying down eating sausage?
>
>No, that's 'flatwursting'.
Lately I hear them calling it "phrlanking"....r
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Me? Sarcastic?
Yeah, right.
Jerry Friedman
one?
> author'.
If so, it's the third millennium--you have to say "multiple authors".
> Piff! I thought everyone knew that.
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Jerry Friedman
Jerry Friedman
A hapax googlemenon--well done!
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Jerry Friedman
Vinny Burgoo
>On Aug 19, 6:37 am, Vinny Burgoo <hlu...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> In alt.usage.english, LFS wrote:
>> >On 19/08/2011 13:04, Vinny Burgoo wrote:
>> >> In alt.usage.english, franzi wrote:
>> >>> Vinny Burgoo <hlu...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote
>> >>>> The first sentence of a certain short book has thirty-seven words;
>> >>>> the second has sixty-three; the third has seventy-five; the last has
>> >>>> seventy. The others are shorter. The illustrator is well known for
>> >>>> illustrating books by an author whose first name is spelled the same
>> >>>> as a common English word, a cognate to a Latin word whose feminine
>> >>>> accusative plural was borrowed into English as what word?
>>
>> >>> Ooh, has it started already? Time to blow away the cobwebs. Cuirass
>> >>> (L. coriaceas).
>>
>> >> Are you being chorizontal?
>>
>> >> (That's not a clue. I just wanted to show off a new word.)
>>
>> >Lying down eating sausage?
>>
>> No, that's 'flatwursting'.
>>
>> 'Chorizontal' means 'ascribing a work to more than
>
>one?
Yes. And I should have written 'corpus', not 'work'.
>> author'.
>
>If so, it's the third millennium--you have to say "multiple authors".
A corpus with multiple authors
Was ascribed by X to a porpoise.
A chorizont said:
'He's better off dead
These days, X is a gawpus.'
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VB,
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Vinny Burgoo
I'm not sure I want to understand that.
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VB
But I did try. Did you know that (a) flatwursts exist and (b) a professional
inventor lives in Brainerd, Minnesota?
Evan Kirshenbaum
Just a guess, but "lion"?
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msh210
The two serious answers in this thread have ignored a word in the
above, or taken it too loosely.
Michael Hamm
TO Panelist
R H Draney
>
>In alt.usage.english, R H Draney wrote:
>>Vinny Burgoo filted:
>>>In alt.usage.english, LFS wrote:
>>>>On 19/08/2011 13:04, Vinny Burgoo wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Are you being chorizontal?
>>>>>
>>>>> (That's not a clue. I just wanted to show off a new word.)
>>>>
>>>>Lying down eating sausage?
>>>
>>>No, that's 'flatwursting'.
>>
>>Lately I hear them calling it "phrlanking"....r
>
>I'm not sure I want to understand that.
My awkward attempt to combine "franks" and "planking" in a single word....r
R H Draney
A botanist stated, "The fact is,
I've tried to make love to a cactus.
Though I pricked myself sore,
I still managed to score,
And I'm sure I'll improve, given practice."
Burma Shave....r
Vinny Burgoo
Hint: Bedroom monsters.
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VB
T. O. Panellist
CDB
Vinny Burgoo
Thank you!
Explanation:
The book is _Where the Wild Things Are_ by Maurice Sendak. He
illustrated the Little Bear books by Else Holmelund Minarik. The cognate
is 'alius'.
Jerry Friedman
Sheep are going to show up this evening, by the way.
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Jerry Friedman, Totally Officially done with vacation.
CDB
>>>>> Vinny Burgoo <hlu...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>>>> The first sentence of a certain short book has thirty-seven
>>>>>> words; the second has sixty-three; the third has seventy-five;
>>>>>> the last has seventy. The others are shorter. The illustrator
>>>>>> is well known for illustrating books by an author whose first
>>>>>> name is spelled the same as a common English word, a cognate
>>>>>> to a Latin word whose feminine accusative plural was borrowed
>>>>>> into English as what word?
>>
>>>>> The two serious answers in this thread have ignored a word in
>>>>> the above, or taken it too loosely.
>>
>>>> Hint: Bedroom monsters.
>>
>>> Alias.
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> Explanation:
>>
>> The book is _Where the Wild Things Are_ by Maurice Sendak. He
>> illustrated the Little Bear books by Else Holmelund Minarik. The
>> cognate is 'alius'.
>
> Sheep are going to show up this evening, by the way.
>>
me.
franzi
getting this answer.
The first, several days ago, was that when looking for -as words I
rejected alias as an adverb, not a feminine plural. Too hasty!
Elsewise, after the last heavy hint, I couldn't remember where our copy
of Where the Wild Things Are had got to. (I've found it now.) My
recollection was that the sentences were all short.
Congrats.
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franzi
Jerry Friedman
Your Cormo is letting the wild rumpus start, but under another name.
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Jerry Friedman, T. O. Sheepimaginer
CDB
guarantee that the quarry even ended in "-as". My copy of WTWTA went
long ago to a deserving neighbour kid. I had thought of Sendak early
on but couldn't confirm the sentence-lengths; when prompted looked
him up in Wp and found Else.
R H Draney
>
>I fainted at the mere thought of looking at all those words, with no
>guarantee that the quarry even ended in "-as". My copy of WTWTA went
>long ago to a deserving neighbour kid. I had thought of Sendak early
>on but couldn't confirm the sentence-lengths; when prompted looked
>him up in Wp and found Else.
I looked at Wiki myself, but by then the sheep had been snared...I did however
note the telltale sentence:
"Before Where the Wild Things Are, Sendak was best known for illustrating Else
Holmelund Minarik's Little Bear series of books."