Re: Can anyone do word of the day, or do you have to be a linguistic prodigy?

On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:40:56 -0700 (PDT), gavandkel@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

How about Spatterdash?
It's in my RBD (Really Big Dictionary) and they were a sort of cross
between a gaiter and a spat (no Polly not your sort of Gator) and was
generally used in WWI army uniforms to protect the wearer from mud. I
suppose one could quilt such a thing, if it helps to keep it on Topic!
Cheers,
Fay
PS I did get 99% in Editing in my professional writing course if you
need to inspect my credentials.

Egads!
I am so _not_ a linguistic prodigy!
I also have Great Fear of editors because my grammer and puncuation
sucks.
It is just that some of my interests have taken me to where the wierd
sewing words dwell. Plus I have a tendancy to use archaic words, I
think that goes back to snagging most of my early reading material out
of my dad's second hand and antiques shop. It left me with a love of
the classics, a strange vocabulary, and a burning curiosity as to what
the heck watered silk was. Had I but known, some of the endpapers of
those books were watered silk. (G)

Anybody is welcome to hop in on this.
I am trying to maintain thread continuity to avoid repeating myself.
If I see that somebody else has posted a word or term I will happily
take the day off, but if you find a nifty one and somebody else has
already posted go ahead anyway. It is not like there are rules, or as
if we will run out of words and terms.

NightMist

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