Confabulation : making up things to fill in holes in your memory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation
Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
I agree that booze is a great word and I had no idea it had such a long history. To use it as a verb, I certainly "boozed" it up Friday night and suffered a bit on Saturday, as a result. Much better now, though.
It's Monday already. How did that happen so fast;
plaintive - adj expressive of suffering or woe: MELANCHOLY
I decided to go ahead and add this one, too;
plaint - noun (Latin planctus pp. of plangere to strike, beat one's breast, lament) 1. LAMENTATION, WAIL 2. PROTEST, COMPLAINT
I must say, it seems like I am having a conversation with myself and a plain one at that! LOL Onward and upward!
According to George Bernard Shaw in Pygmalion and My Fair Lady: "The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain".
While it might be a useful sentence for teaching correct English, it is geographical nonsense. Like most rain, the bulk of the rain in Spain falls on the mountains and hills, whence in runs down onto the plain.
Equally, how many times does one address a cow in the vocative: How now brown cow?
How perfectly correct, Harold, thanks for posting the comic.
I am adding this next word for the miners;
placer - noun an alluvial or glacial deposit containing parricles of gold or other valuable mineral