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carrietipton.bsky.social • 54 days ago

I’ll take the points but there should be an asterisk next to them

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meganlavengood.com•54 days ago

Me and "nabob"

carrietipton.bsky.social•54 days ago

lol exactly

jkaconductor.bsky.social•54 days ago

Not a word that’s been in general use since about 1820….

jkaconductor.bsky.social•54 days ago

(And indeed I’d be surprised if it ever reached the US..!)

ionarts.bsky.social•54 days ago

Getting this word in the Bee always reminds me of the description of journalists as the "nattering nabobs of negativism," said (supposedly) by Spiro Agnew

jkaconductor.bsky.social•54 days ago

Ah fascinating. I always assumed that it was a parochially British usage.

ionarts.bsky.social•54 days ago

Definitely a word with limited circulation, but not exclusively British, I guess!

carrietipton.bsky.social•54 days ago

without giving too much away, it is (I now know) an animal species & am assuming it is thus named on both sides of the Atlantic

jkaconductor.bsky.social•54 days ago

Ah sorry - I meant ‘nabob.’

carrietipton.bsky.social•54 days ago

Ah got it!

stuchapmanhill.bsky.social•54 days ago

Sometimes I try to find extra words I *do* know to balance the points I earned “unfairly.”

carrietipton.bsky.social•54 days ago

Ha! Extremely valiant!

stuchapmanhill.bsky.social•54 days ago

Valiant? Neurotic? Who’s to say?

carrietipton.bsky.social•54 days ago

it is a fine, fine line

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