Story Time

[tealin]

There it was, a faint flicker as Vimes glanced momentarily at some paperwork in front of him. Lotto! thought William.*

*At this point Bingo had not been introduced to Ankh-Morpork.

– The Truth, pg 132 (UK)

3:52 pm

plimsoll - (n.) A rubber-soled cloth shoe; a sneaker.
I looked up this word last week to see if it actually existed and ever since then – especially today – I've been hearing it all over.

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[chocolatepot.livejournal.com]

Yes; now draw me a picture.

Please?

:D

a counter pratchett quote:

[(Anonymous)]

"It's not cannaballism unless you eat the whole person!"
-pg whatever, Monstrous Regiment*
*We're waiting for more art!

[sietske.livejournal.com]

Love that one. Right up there with "You're geography".

[fryingpanofdoom.livejournal.com]

What brought the plimsoll up? P.G. Wodehouse? Or did Terry Pratchett use it too?

[anathelen.livejournal.com]

plimsoll - (n.) A rubber-soled cloth shoe; a sneaker.
I looked up this word last week to see if it actually existed and ever since then – especially today – I've been hearing it all over.


I have had that happen numerous times with odd-sounding words I haven't encountered before. Oddly enough, the most recent word that has had that phenomonon happen to it was 'cuckold.' I read it in a book and looked it up, then read it in the newspaper and heard someone use it in conversation the next day.

Freaky........

[(Anonymous)]

Wow....... that's really creepy....... that's exactly what happens to me every once and a while. I learn the meaning of a new word, and suddenly I start hearing it everywhere. I can't decide whether it's because I'm paying more attention or because of something else........ at least I know I'm not the only one!

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I think I would have been paying more attention and picked up more 'plimsoll's after reading Going Postal, because the first time I ever encountered the word was in there; on the wizard Pelc's desk is volume 41 of synonyms for the word 'plimsoll.' I thought it was a made-up word, at the time, but didn't look it up until my roommate said it was real.

[gabbysun.livejournal.com]

If we are assuming that lotto in fact is the same as the 'lottery', then why the heck haven't we heard more about it?, because it is the most Dibbleresque notion I've ever heard. (Okay, getting people to give you money for the chance that they might win money with numbers that you control!? DIBBLER!)

:D That same happened to me with 'cocking a snook' and 'ineffable'. Once I looked those words up, they appeared everywhere.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I was going to say maybe Dibbler and Moist could go in on it but a)they probably wouldn't be able to work with each other abd b)it seems a bit too simple for the cunning Postmaster.

[gabbysun.livejournal.com]

Hee hee. Moist.

*brain and maturity of a TWO YEAR OLD*

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Hehe, reason c)Dibbler & Moist: not a reputable-sounding partnership. Sounds like the saliva control of a two-year-old.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

By the way, I'd always assumed it was 'snook' sounding like 'hook' but apparently it rhymes with 'nuke.' For a long time I was puzzled as to where I picked up the first pronunciation (besides the obvious spelling, of course) until going back to visit my old neighbourhood in San Diego this summer and seeing ... Snook Road. Teeheehee. Snook.

Snook, snook, snook.

[gabbysun.livejournal.com]

Psh, I've always known that! Just flows off the tongue, it does! (Actually I've no idea how to pronounce most things. WOE.)

xDD Is it really? Mine was . . . uh, Pinehurst. Which is really quite inconsequential.

Um, 'cock cock cock' really doesn't give a favorable impression, does it. :(