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Sigh. I can understand a tattoo artist having a banned list, it must get boring doing the same thing over and over, but it was only a small portion of the total design. :(
 
Oh, this is so nice! I am sorting out my papers - throwing away ones which are outdated and organising my filing cabinet which is conveniently situated right by my bureau. I'm doing it sitting by the big picture window in my new living room. Outside it's a bright sunny spring day - the daffodils are coming up in my garden. My bureau is still decorated with some birthday cards from friends and a special Christmas card with a dragon on it :heart:.

I used to wonder why I couldn't get on with these simple admin tasks - when I had a big cold dark room full of boxes as my 'study'. There was never any sunlight in it - it was the worst room in the house, although I know I should have been grateful to get a whole room to keep my boxes in. The kitchen in the old house was so cold that sometimes on bright sunny days I would be wearing two jumpers, and only when I went outside would I realise it was actually quite hot.

I've nearly finished! (I mean just this bit of sorting :D - I have got about ten boxes of papers in the garage to go through :rolleyes:)
 



isogrammatic • n., words in which no letter is repeated ( adj., isogrammatical ).







Goddamnit— I'm now officially pissed ( no, you Brits— I'm not drunk— the American sense of angry ).

The U.S. radio network, National Public Radio ( "NPR" ), has a semi-humorous weekly program on the topic of automobiles and automobile maintenance hosted by a pair of very bright ( Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduates ) and very witty brothers, Tom and Ray Magliozzi. Notwithstanding the humor, the program can be extremely informative as the brothers are knowledgeable automobile mechanics who operate a garage in Cambridge, Taxachusetts ( http://www.cartalk.com/content/about/history/ ). Each week the program includes a "Puzzler" which is, as the name suggests, a puzzle. This answer to this week's puzzle contains the word isogrammatic:

QUESTION:
http://www.cartalk.com/content/nine-unusual-states?question
Week of 03-12
RAY: This is from my "What's Not in a Name" series, and it's about names of states. This was sent in by someone named Arnie Hartika who writes, "For some time now, I've been a New York Times puzzle addict, and hardly a week goes by that I don't learn at least one new word. Last week was no exception, and I realized right away that this knowledge could be used as the basis for one of your cheesy little Puzzlers. So here goes. I'm going to list nine states of union. Maine, Vermont, New York, Iowa, Florida, Texas, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming."

TOM: That's nine.

RAY: The question is, what makes these states different from all the others? And, I'll give a hint. You don't have to think twice to know that Mississippi and Alabama are not eligible to be on this list.

Think you know? Drop Ray a note!

_______________________
ANSWER:

http://www.cartalk.com/content/nine-unusual-states?answer

Nine Unusual States

RAY: Here's the answer: what makes these states unusual is that they're isogrammatic words-- words in which no letter is repeated. Texas has five unique letters. Wyoming has seven, and so does New York. But none are repeated. And there are no other states, save for those, that are isogrammatical.

TOM: What about Texas?

RAY: I have Texas on the list, you dope. So do we have a winner?

TOM: Our winner this week is Sally Milgram from Prairie Village, Kansas. Congratulations, Sally!
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So, here's my problem. I cannot find an entry for "isogrammatic" in my copy of The Concise Oxford English Dictionary. I cannot find an entry for "isogrammatic" in my copy of the Compact Oxford English Dictionary. I cannot find a listing of "isogrammatic" online.

I am not a subscriber to the O.E.D. on-line and am, thus, unable to check that source.

While I strongly suspect "isogrammatic" is not slang and I'd be amazed if it is a neologism, I'll be damned if I can find a listing. Can any of you find a listing and definition for the word?









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isogrammatic • n., words in which no letter is repeated ( adj., isogrammatical ).







Goddamnit— I'm now officially pissed ( no, you Brits— I'm not drunk— the American sense of angry ).

The U.S. radio network, National Public Radio ( "NPR" ), has a semi-humorous weekly program on the topic of automobiles and automobile maintenance hosted by a pair of very bright ( Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduates ) and very witty brothers, Tom and Ray Magliozzi. Notwithstanding the humor, the program can be extremely informative as the brothers are knowledgeable automobile mechanics who operate a garage in Cambridge, Taxachusetts ( http://www.cartalk.com/content/about/history/ ). Each week the program includes a "Puzzler" which is, as the name suggests, a puzzle. This answer to this week's puzzle contains the word isogrammatic:



So, here's my problem. I cannot find an entry for "isogrammatic" in my copy of The Concise Oxford English Dictionary. I cannot find an entry for "isogrammatic" in my copy of the Compact Oxford English Dictionary. I cannot find a listing of "isogrammatic" online.

I am not a subscriber to the O.E.D. on-line and am, thus, unable to check that source.

While I strongly suspect "isogrammatic" is not slang and I'd be amazed if it is a neologism, I'll be damned if I can find a listing. Can any of you find a listing and definition for the word?









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I did a google of the word "isogrammatic"...it did not self populate on my phone, but it has shown several sites.

One is grammar.about.com, looking at the word "isogram"

It is on several different websites.

But NOTHING shows when I type in "isogrammatic define"

For what it's worth, it's not even in the Noah Webster 1828 Dictionary of the English Language.

Maybe someone is making a new word using etymology! :eek: They would be incorrect, of course, because the prefix ISO- means "Equal" ... confusing.
 
isogamy /noun Biology sexual reproduction by the fusion of similar gametes. Compare with anisogamy.
– derivatives isogamete noun. isogamous adjective.
– origin C19: from iso- + Greek gamos ‘marriage’.
 
barefootgirl69 said:
I did a google of the word "isogrammatic"...it did not self populate on my phone, but it has shown several sites.

One is grammar.about.com, looking at the word "isogram"

It is on several different websites.

But NOTHING shows when I type in "isogrammatic define"

For what it's worth, it's not even in the Noah Webster 1828 Dictionary of the English Language.

Maybe someone is making a new word using etymology! :eek: They would be incorrect, of course, because the prefix ISO- means "Equal" ... confusing.
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Handley_Page said:
isogamy /noun Biology sexual reproduction by the fusion of similar gametes. Compare with anisogamy.
– derivatives isogamete noun. isogamous adjective.
– origin C19: from iso- + Greek gamos ‘marriage’.
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Thanks for giving it the old college try. I noticed the URLs for the original transcripts have changed to:


Question:
http://www.cartalk.com/content/nine-unusual-states?question


Answer:
http://www.cartalk.com/content/nine-unusual-states?answer


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I traded that in for a real brain a good while ago.
It's a bit creaky now, and the memory ain't what it was (what was that stuff to improve cognitive function?), but it's better than the alternative.
:)
 
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