Word of the Day
 

Bespoke: Made to order. "A bespoke suit"

I had heard it many times before, and thought I understood what it meant, I always thought it related specifically to clothing. But today I heard it used with furniture. So I looked it up. Cool.

Add your word of the day, something common or uncommon, that means something slightly or vastly different than what you thought.

And to top it off, I just found the word I have been looking for. Spent a few years wondering about the word, I knew the definition, but couldn't find the word.

Philomath: Lover of Learning.

a bespoke 'rumspringa' BBY!
 

Wheelwright's use it too, especially in Lancaster county PA when you're 'hot to trot' the ol' buggy on a Saturday night!http://www.netanimations.net/bwbuggy2.gif :O: http://www.amishwares.com/members/15...oaded/1011.jpg that's my bespoke wheel pair on the right http://www.amishwares.com/members/15...oaded/1023.jpghttp://www.amishwares.com/site/1504461/page/4105876

Just when it comes to the english word "bespeak" or "bespoke", i will never be able to understand how this .. language works. Dictionary shows nine different meanings of said word, and they all have nothing to do with each other, or a common meaning. All depends on the context in which they are used :doh:

So it has werfed Nebel ?:doh:

In the same vein: Polymath: A person highly knowledgeable and adept in many fields of learning...


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[QUOTE Catfish] i will never be able to understand how this .. language works.[/QUOTE]I'm not so sure: polymaths are pretty stuck-up buggers...'in the same vain' maybe!:woot:

I'm not so sure: polymaths are pretty stuck-up buggers...'in the same vain' maybe!:woot:
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Ah, a pun! Very good!...

If you read the histories of some of the noted polymaths throughout history, you will find them not really vain at all; in fact, they were so consumed in pursuing their various studies, they had little time for acclaim, self or external. The impression of their being aloof or condescending comes mainly from an intellectual and, often, emotional, disconnect with the general populace occasioned by that which gave them their gifts; it is a price levied for their gifts or, as some would say, "The Lord gives; the Lord takes away"...


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SECULAR
 

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/secular

For years I thought that the word secular meant "pertaining to religion", until I found that it means completely the opposite.

^ ha i thought the same, until i read Niven's and Pournelle's "The Flying Sorcerers", where they secularise "holy trees"..

B.t.w. this is an excellent SciFi book, lots of puns and great fun to read. :up:
Maybe time for a "best books" thread?


@Aktung i read the wholly bible, but in vain.. :O:

Many of the diecast aircraft I commission are bespoke....one-off.

The word that got me was foment: [to cause or try to cause the growth or development of (something bad or harmful)ie rebellion] which is often cross confused to ferment: one definition of which is [to be in a state of agitation or intense activity ie rebellion]...which leads to the completely fabricated cobbled word: forment... which does not exist! but is used in a book A World Lit only by Fire by no less than William Manchester to describe a political situation, but probably just a poorly paid proofer-typesetter's gross error.:hmmm:

And plenty of people continue to get the words infer and imply confused.

Never desert your friends in the desert.