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Old 12-13-2008, 10:05 PM   #181
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I thought Lambent was a corrupt London Borough...
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Old 12-14-2008, 06:44 AM   #182
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Oh, that is so much crap. The labs always run the stat orders first .... and when they have 60 electrolyte panels to run in the morning, even at a minute or two each, that still puts old Mr. 60 anywhere from an hour to two hours out from the time it comes into the lab. Then, you have to consider the stat orders that are going to come in in the interim, and that pushes the last of the routine run out even further.
Sorry, what does "stat" mean? An abbreviation for "statim" ("immediately" in Latin)?
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Old 12-14-2008, 09:48 AM   #183
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Sorry, what does "stat" mean? An abbreviation for "statim" ("immediately" in Latin)?
Exactly.
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Old 12-14-2008, 09:57 AM   #184
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Thanks! That's a new one on me.
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Old 12-16-2008, 08:38 PM   #185
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exiguous.

From "Valley of Fear" in the Sherlock Holmes Omnibus.

Love the Kindle dictionary feature. When reading books from the early 1900's, there are many words that aren't in use anymore. Usually I can tell from how a word is used in a sentence what it means. Not so much with early works.

"very small in size or amount"
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Old 12-28-2008, 11:21 AM   #186
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Old 12-28-2008, 11:23 AM   #187
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One of my most favorite words: pulchritudinous

From Latin- pulchra, meaning beautiful. Don't know why a whole bunch of letter at the end..
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Old 12-28-2008, 11:24 AM   #188
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One of my most favorite words: pulchritudinous

From Latin- pulchra, meaning beautiful. Don't know why a whole bunch of letter at the end..
lovely word.
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Old 12-28-2008, 11:35 AM   #189
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The things you learn at MR. I don't recall hearing either one of them before. So, is it possible for an plutocracy to be pulchritudinous or for an orgy to be orgulous?
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Old 12-28-2008, 11:37 AM   #190
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The things you learn at MR. I don't recall hearing either one of them before. So, is it possible for an plutocracy to be pulchritudinous or for an orgy to be orgulous?
I Ihad to learn a bunch of insane words for the GRE.

Hirsute is another good one...hairy.
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Old 12-28-2008, 11:41 AM   #191
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a hirsutely pulchritudinous dog became increasingly orgulous in proportion to his burgeoning sesquipedalian vocabulary.
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Old 12-28-2008, 11:47 AM   #192
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Old 12-28-2008, 11:50 AM   #193
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These "y"s are all vowels...
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I keep having to look up 'Syzygy' because it has so many meanings:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syzygy

Isn't it a pretty word? I believe that it and 'rhythm' are the longest English words without vowels. And I like z's.
"Y" can be either a vowel or a consonant - it's a consonant in "yoke" and "you"- but all the "y"s here in these 2 words are vowels (functioning just like "i" or "ee," rather than initiating a syllable). If it's got consonants (or consonant sounds) on either side of it, it's a vowel.
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Old 12-28-2008, 11:50 AM   #194
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a hirsutely pulchritudinous dog became increasingly orgulous in proportion to his burgeoning sesquipedalian vocabulary.
This hirsute pulchritidinous dog became pugnacious after recalling the donnybrook at the local watering hole where his bon ami was defenestrated.
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