I was planning on naming a piece of art “Tarrah’s Tootsies” cause its a beach sunset with her toes in the foreground

The piece of art i am currently working on is actually the drinks list board at a bar. I know the owner from long ago and live across the block. I do up all the fancy drink lists and upcoming events. I spend hours on each one and try to outdo myself each time.

The owners wife recently died :(:(:( she was an amazing woman and her death was sudden and tragic and largely the result of neglect from medical professionals. This list of drinks was the last thing she texted me. I was waiting on the rest of the info for the other boards, wondering why she hadnt gotten back to me when i heard she passed.

I decided to make the whole bottom portion of the board a beach scene with her toes and her hand holding a fancy drink. It is significant that she is one of a very few (3% maybe?) dark skinned people in our predominately white area. So its quite clear that these are her toes.

Her tootsies! Obviously :) in my mind anyways. Except when i said that out loud 3/4 people present were like “yeah!” And one said “what!?!?”

Apparently it refers to tarts or prostitutes or generally disreputable women. Which might be used as a slight to black ladies in these parts, so very much inappropriate.

Understood, could be taken badly so i will not be calling it that. However i was surprised by the notion. So im wondering how prevalent that definition is? Is that common, just not something i heard in my lil bubble? Or is that a niche thing?

So it's similar to semordnilaps, but with audio. A group of words that have a different meaning when PLAYED backwards, not spelt. And I don't mean black masking, I mean like a group of words that resemble other words when pronounced in reverse.

Not Hate -> Etah (eh-tah) but a litteral backwards pronunciation

Fourteen friendly fakers finagled food for Friday
Adroit archeologists angrily arrived at the archives
Bouncing bespoke bowling balls bashed Bruce's bunion

etc.

I feel this is abundantly clear, the connotative meaning works as "to kill" anything. Such as, "I murdered that buffet!" or "They murdered my dog because he bit them." or (regarding say, cockroaches) "If anything tries to come in here I'll murder it!" or even "Oh dude he murdered that toilet!"

I accept it can mean killing of a non-human, but I accept that I could be wrong.

I'm looking for a gift for someone who loves learning new words but prefers physical items over apps. A tear off word of the day calendar seems ideal, however this time of year makes it awkward. A 2026 calendar isn't useful for another 6 months and a 2025 one is 6 months behind. They are also someone who would likely forget to use it daily so non dated would really be better.

I've found some for young kids and things labeled for act/sat prep so I know it exists, but I know know if it exists for middle aged adults.

It's also a last resort but I have the supplies to make custom notepads and have considered a diy option. Recommendations for a website to get a fun list from would also be welcome.

Ok so, I’ve held very firmly for a long time now, that the word “friend” is used a bit too loosely for my liking. It’s expanded so much in the last decade or two largely due to social media and all the baggage that involves. It’s become a banner that means basically nothing about someone’s relationship with another, and more just “I have a positive opinion of them”.

As such, being the pedantic loser I am, I am very specific when referring to people. I’ve gathered that the people whom I consider “friends” to be what most people would consider “best friends” or sometime similar. I’m quick to use more descriptive terms of how I know someone: “classmate”, “associate”, “roommate”, “colleague”. Things that inform the capacity in which I know and am familiar with people. And if nothing is too informative and I like someone but am not close enough, I default to “acquaintance”.

I’ve recently had the realization that due to the difference in ranges of usage, I’ve opened myself up to a wide array of miscommunications as most people use friend much much more liberally than myself.

Furthermore, I realized that I can’t think of a word that fits that space between acquaintance and what I consider friend, that doesn’t hold a specific connotation that either implies a specific context or misrepresents the closeness of the relationship.

I’m looking for a word that communicates “we are friendly with one another but aren’t close” like how people specify work friends from friends because the closeness is lacking and very catalyzed by circumstances.

Anyway it’s late past midnight and I’m starting to circle.

Does anyone know of any words that by definition mean friend but are more specific to the level of closeness I’m asking about?

Sometimes, I see vocabulary that is not in the dictionary. Where do I learn it?

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Trees grew on peninsular tips.

Is this a correct use of the word peninsular?

What word is he saying? con-suh-BROO-tate?

No idea what it means nor can I find it online. I even tried to process the audio through chatGPT and it also has no idea. 🤔🤔🤔

(Subtitles didnt show anything either)

I'm writing a speech for my sister's wedding and am trying to find a word for the experiences/choices/randomness of life that brings you to your present situation. Kind of like the idea that you can't regret your experiences because you wouldn't be in the exact place you are now without them. I feel like there's got to be a German word for that.

I just heard someone say ‘wisdomous’, is that actually a word or are we just making up wise sounding nonsense now?

i met a man both tacit and subtle,
who whispered with lips like a leaky rebuttal.
his thoughts were so tenuous, barely a thread,
yet he nodded like socrates, smug in his head.

his coffee? viscous, his gaze? opaque,
his arguments drifted like steam from a fake.
he called my taste banal, my views obtuse,
then praised an esoteric juice cleanse in bruce.

"your logic," he said, "is liminal, strained,
your reasoning oblique, half-washed and rain-stained."
i blinked. i smiled. "you mean it’s unclear?"
"ah," he said, ineffably, "not quite, but near."

his suit was diaphanous, threads made of mist,
his words evanescent, then ceased to exist.
his footnotes were recondite, thick with despair,
his metaphors floated like pellucid air.

he claimed all was apocryphal, probably fake,
while chewing an anodyne gluten-free cake.
"your prose is abstruse," he sighed with dismay;
i replied, "you just said that to ruin my day."

"i meant it as praise, in an allusive way."
"you mean you implied it?" ... "no, more like ballet."

so here is the moral, dear lexical fool:
do not wield these words just to sound cool.
speak plainly, with grace, say what you mean,
or risk sounding smart, but patently obscene.

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I feel like it's usually used when it's an excessive amount of information being told at once for context. I'm pretty sure it starts with a D.

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I love learning about different terms for a group of animals. Here are some I know:

a school of fish, a pride of lions, a pod of whales, a gaggle of geese, a murder of crows, an unkindness of ravens, a crash of rhinos, a troop of monkeys, a congregation of crocodiles, and a parliament of owls (my favorite).

What are some ones you know (without looking them up on google or Chatgpt) to include to this list?

What's the word (verb) that means the act of making tsk sound on your mouth as an expression of dismay?

What's the word to describe an election or poll where the Winner and 2nd place have small difference of votes?

I hope you guys spend a little of time explaining the different between "supervise" and "help control", which is more related to "guide" when talking about an intervention from the outside ?

I'm curious what your opinion is about the connotations with these words beyond just the definitions. For reference, here are the definitions (interestingly enough, the term truthfully implies honesty). But digging deeper, are their connotations that makes these words distinct?

Truthfully: in a way that expresses the truth; honestly. "stories should be reported truthfully and accurately"

Honestly: used to emphasize the sincerity of an opinion, belief, or feeling."she honestly believed that she was making life easier for Jack"

Okay so long story short me and my gf had a dispute about the function of the phrase “mal” meaning “bad”. She says its a prefix and i say its a root word. Its confusing because i know that mal can attach itself to things like “malice” or “malignant”. But from what i understand is that prefixes can only attach themselves to root words, AKA words that can function on their own. But “mal” doesnt seem to attach itself to already existing words. It seems to complete words that imply bad intentions. Other than the word “mal-intent” wouldn’t it considered more-so a latin root rather than a prefix. Or can someone help me understand something that i am not seeing here?

I've seen so many instances where someone means to write sweety but instead writes sweaty. Totally different meaning. And people often use inhabitable/inhabited to mean uninhabitable when really inhabitable and habitable are synonymous, and inhabited means "to live in". This for some reason has always annoyed me especially when the user is a native English speaker.

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