What is it with pebble Plombs?

[Papaw]

Didn't know we had a bunch of lexicographers here!

[Branson]

Didn't know we had a bunch of lexicographers here!

I'm more of a lexiphiliac.  Now a linguist or philologist would explain that the language moving from  -cester to 'ster is the result of sandhi variations, where an unaccented syllable is dropped from pronunciation.<g>

[rusty]

It still amazes me that there were enough lexographers living in one place to found the entire town of Lexington...

[Papaw]

My older brother is a linguist, teaches at University of California at Santa Cruz and does seminars around the world. Some of the titles are almost impossible to decipher!

"The Historical Phonology of Vowel Length"

"Deletion in Coordinate Structure"

His Doctoral Thesis was titled "Constraints on Deletion in Syntax"

[Wrenchmensch]

An old friend sent this along on "lexiphiles":

LEXIPHILES: WHOEVER PUT THIS TOGETHER LOVES LANGUAGE:

To write with a broken pencil is pointless.

When fish are in schools they sometimes take debate.

A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.

When the smog lifts in Los Angeles , U.C.L.A.

The professor discovered that her theory of earthquakes was on shaky ground.

The batteries were given out free of charge.

A dentist and a manicurist married. They fought tooth and nail.

A will is a dead giveaway.

If you don't pay your exorcist you can get repossessed.

With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.

Show me a piano falling down a mineshaft and I'll show you A-flat miner.

You are stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.

Local Area Network in Australia : The LAN down under.

A boiled egg is hard to beat.

When you've seen one shopping centre you've seen a mall.

Police were called to a day care where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.

Did you hear about the fellow whose whole left side was cut off? He's all right now.

If you take a laptop computer for a run you could jog your memory.

A bicycle can't stand alone; it is two tired.

In a democracy it's your vote that counts; in feudalism, it's your Count that votes.

When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.

The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.

He had a photographic memory which was never developed.

Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.

When she saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she'd dye.

Acupuncture: a jab well done.

[Branson]

If you drop the same piano on a bottle of whisky, you'll get a diminished fifth...

[Uncle Buck]

Man what a fine loking adjustable wrench!

[OilyRascal]

FINE looking Walden Worcester adjustable!

[stanley62]

The silent letters i can deal with, but it's the added letters that kill me.  I work with a half dozen Brits, and most of them call a drawing a draw-ring.  Where the heck did that extra R come from?? 

  Jim

[Wrenchmensch]

Consider how the word "Belvoir" is pronounced in the UK: Beaver!

[rusty]

>Where the heck did that extra R come from?? 

They keep extras in the draw-rer...

[scottg]

Language is a trip.
Sometimes the old English spelling makes sense to me. Colour, favour....... Seems proper. 
Sometimes I cannot relinquish spellings that seem backward to my brain.   Lable  for instance. I would just as soon spell out tabel, as type label.

Nobody really knows how to spell description or refrigerator reliably.

Pebble tools have an extra ingredient of cool.
We don't get that many extra flourishes in tools.
  yours Scott 

[OilyRascal]

Pebble tools have an extra ingredient of cool.
We don't get that many extra flourishes in tools.
  yours Scott

Quote worthy!