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Are there words that, when you type them, they make you look at them and wonder?
Here is one............. SUBMIT
Where the hell did it come from? It sounds like an under glove or something!
Anyone got any ideas?
Here is one............. SUBMIT
Where the hell did it come from? It sounds like an under glove or something!
Anyone got any ideas?
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- LE (Little Erasmus)
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Sorry - I can't help with a definition for "submit", but those clever chaps on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue offer the following [for the uninitiated:GG = Graham Garden, BC = Barry Cryer, SF = Stephen Fry and TBT is Tim Brooke-Taylor]:
GG. Negligent - a man who wears lingerie
SF. Cryogenic - when you turn out in a photo to look like Barry
BC. Stir fry - to arouse Stephen
TBT. Parsnip - dad's vasectomy
TBT. Marmite - mum's possibly up for it
GG. Wallaby - someone aspiring to be a kangaroo
SF. Countryside - to kill Piers Morgan
GG. Tomahawk - a vegetable of prey
BC. Diphthong - to wash an undergarment
SF. Lip synch - a lady's intimate washbasin
TBT. ...as used by Piers Morgan
BC. Placebo - a Spanish tenor who does nothing for me
SF. Rectitude - the angle at which a thermometer should be inserted
GG. Homophobe - somebody who doesn't like the Simpson’s
SF. Portent - the Millennium Dome
GG. Negligent - a man who wears lingerie
SF. Cryogenic - when you turn out in a photo to look like Barry
BC. Stir fry - to arouse Stephen
TBT. Parsnip - dad's vasectomy
TBT. Marmite - mum's possibly up for it
GG. Wallaby - someone aspiring to be a kangaroo
SF. Countryside - to kill Piers Morgan
GG. Tomahawk - a vegetable of prey
BC. Diphthong - to wash an undergarment
SF. Lip synch - a lady's intimate washbasin
TBT. ...as used by Piers Morgan
BC. Placebo - a Spanish tenor who does nothing for me
SF. Rectitude - the angle at which a thermometer should be inserted
GG. Homophobe - somebody who doesn't like the Simpson’s
SF. Portent - the Millennium Dome
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Re: Words
must be from the French - mettre=to put or place and the prefifix sub makes it to place under i.e to place forward or tender. No time to check dictionary, but i suspect that's something like it. (Show off!)Scone Lover wrote:Are there words that, when you type them, they make you look at them and wonder?
Here is one............. SUBMIT
Where the hell did it come from? It sounds like an under glove or something!
Anyone got any ideas?
David Eastburn (Prep B and Mid A 1947-55)
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Re: Words
What have the Romans ever done for us?DavebytheSea wrote:must be from the French - mettre=to put or place and the prefifix sub makes it to place under i.e to place forward or tender. No time to check dictionary, but i suspect that's something like it. (Show off!)Scone Lover wrote:Are there words that, when you type them, they make you look at them and wonder?
Here is one............. SUBMIT
Where the hell did it come from? It sounds like an under glove or something!
Anyone got any ideas?
Well, they came up with the verb submitto (submittere, submisi, submissum), for one thing, for which we and the French (soumettre) should be very grateful!
Ba.A / Mid. B 1972 - 1978
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Thee's got'n where thee cassn't back'n, hassn't?
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