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June 20 2011
TMESIS [teh-MEE-sis] – the breaking up of one word with another, such ‘old’ dividing ‘anyhow’ to create the vernacular ‘any old how’, or spec-bloody-tacular. [Literal Greek for cutting.] To use tmesis in a sentence is a-whole-nother story.
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RM — 20 June at 04:33AM
Interesting items salvaged first from Greek container?
RK — 20 June at 07:22AM
To make Eliza swear in song, for starters say: "Abso-bloomin'-lutely!"
Boniface — 20 June at 09:34AM
Times changing over start of Sixties - fan-bloody-tastic perhaps.
Getting cutting device, ambo reverses over half-sister.
DC — 20 June at 10:37AM
Doctor met nurse casually, for oral injection
ahem
DC — 20 June at 10:49AM
"Come hither sibling," I say, "forth-bloody-with."
peta — 20 June at 11:04AM
Smites wayward inter-bloody-jector as an example.
SK — 20 June at 08:03PM
Put the word around; accessory model seen with drunken Messi
RK — 20 June at 08:31PM
Semi-cooked in retro way, say. La-di-freakin'-da.
DA2 — 20 June at 08:45PM
Where's DA? What's going on?!
He's in Telstra twilight with his Word Cave being gutted this week, a complete refit, with standard web services suspended until Friday at the latest.
Apologies for the stasis. Though feel free to feedback the Times in last week's post.
Appreciate your patience. God knows I need some!
Boniface — 20 June at 08:50PM
Thesis drops a grade - expletives found in words (6)
JPR — 21 June at 07:19PM
Like Hamlet's 'Bra-fort-bra' mess it around
Nib — 23 June at 01:20PM
Example of spec-bloody-tacular leader in troubled times.
JPR — 23 June at 01:32PM
"THE MIMESIS" is an extended example, losing half
or
King Tut says of his wife "After my head!" when wordily nested
or
Up north, the master is cut short, is wordily nested