Word of the day

Rory · Post by **Rory** » Wed May 24, 2006 11:53 am

Nice effort DBTS - not fogetting Guinea (fowl)

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Wed May 24, 2006 12:00 pm

Morning, Dave. On form, I see!

Canada (goose)?

Rory · Post by **Rory** » Wed May 24, 2006 12:07 pm

Dave - see what you can do with Paraguay or Ukraine......

DavebytheSea · Post by **DavebytheSea** » Wed May 24, 2006 12:09 pm

I was playing around with Indian states such as Budgerigar (next door to Srinagar, I believe)

midget · Post by **midget** » Wed May 24, 2006 3:36 pm

I have been told that "yeo" means river. In Barnstaple we have the river Yeo, which is either the River River or the yeo Yeo.

Tim_MaA_MidB · Post by **Tim_MaA_MidB** » Wed May 24, 2006 3:45 pm

Thats a bit like saying Koi Carp, where Koi already means carp. Or...fatally dead?

DavebytheSea · Post by **DavebytheSea** » Wed May 24, 2006 3:47 pm

Rory wrote:Dave - see what you can do with Paraguay or Ukraine......

Don't be silly, you crane!

DavebytheSea · Post by **DavebytheSea** » Wed May 24, 2006 3:50 pm

DavebytheSea wrote:
Rory wrote:Dave - see what you can do with Paraguay or Ukraine......
Don't be silly, you crane!

Have you ever 'eard a parro' cwy? - they 'owls!

Tim_MaA_MidB · Post by **Tim_MaA_MidB** » Wed May 24, 2006 3:51 pm

I heard he was joining the armed forces as one of those Para guys.

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Wed May 24, 2006 10:19 pm

Chesham Bois Wood is just down the road from me.

jhopgood · Post by **jhopgood** » Wed May 24, 2006 11:12 pm

midget wrote:I have been told that "yeo" means river. In Barnstaple we have the river Yeo, which is either the River River or the yeo Yeo.

I worked with someone called Yeo in Colombia. When he answered the phone he would say "Yeo", which unfortunately sounds like "yo", which means "I" in Spanish.

He would then get into a comic routine where the caller would ask who's answering and he would say "Yeo (me)", to which the caller would say, "I know it's you, what's your name?"

Amazingly, Yeo would get quite frustrated with the caller and never work out what was the problem with his telephone technique.

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Wed May 31, 2006 12:25 pm

I like the sound of this one:

squinch

â€¢ noun - a straight or arched structure across an interior angle of a square tower to carry a superstructure such as a dome.

â€” origin late 15th cent.: alteration of obsolete scunch, abbreviation of scuncheon.

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Wed May 31, 2006 2:43 pm

Richard Ruck wrote:I like the sound of this one:

squinch

â€¢ noun - a straight or arched structure across an interior angle of a square tower to carry a superstructure such as a dome.

â€” origin late 15th cent.: alteration of obsolete scunch, abbreviation of scuncheon.

I think it's a kind of Squelch, but not quite so loud !!

Tim_MaA_MidB · Post by **Tim_MaA_MidB** » Wed May 31, 2006 5:28 pm

The shape of plant collenchyma cells and the shape of the bubbles in beer foam are the same - they are orthotetrachidecahedrons.

huntertitus · Post by **huntertitus** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 4:15 pm

midget wrote:I have been told that "yeo" means river. In Barnstaple we have the river Yeo, which is either the River River or the yeo Yeo.

On our way to CH we had to drive through a town called Uckfield which got it's name from the river Uck which had a signpost saying "River Uck" next to it.

You can guess what letter someone kept adding.

The council eventually took the sign down.