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Chapter 38 Endonyms and exonyms Livorno: Leghorn Moskva: Moscow Hellas: Greece Eesti: Estonia Alemanha: Portuguese for Germany Kanada: German for Canada Litwa: Polish for Lithuania Inglaterra: Spanish for England Statunitense: Italian for United States Nouvelle-Zélande: French for New Zealand Rootsi: Estonian for Sweden Chapter 40 The two countries named after metals: Cyprus and Argentina (after copper and silver). Chapter 42 Each of the words featured in this chapter (extemporize, impresa- rio, macroscopic, postdiluvian, and plausive) employs all fingers of both the hands at least once to type it on a standard qwerty key- board. Go ahead, try them out. Some interesting facts about words in this category: ● Only about two of every thousand words in the English lan- guage fulfill this criterion. ● Each word has to have a p, since that’s the only letter typed with the right pinkie. 216 ANSWERS bansw01.qxd 7/21/05 12:33 PM Page 216 ● The word plausive was the only one in the above five words where each finger was used once and only once.It might appear this is rare but here are many other words in that category: aphorise, apomicts, autopsic, bakeshop, biplanes, captions, captious, clasping, displant, dystopia, earlship, elapsing, esophagi, haplites, harelips, impalers, impearls, jackpots, lempiras, meropias, outspeak, pactions, palmiest, panelist, pantiles, parsonic, pintados, piroques, plainest, plashier, plaudits, plausive, pleasing, poniards, postique, pralines, pyralids, pyrexial, saponite, satinpod, scalping, septimal, spandril, spicular, spirulae. What do these words mean? Perhaps we will explore them in a future book. Chapter 50 All of the words result in other words when beheaded: rotund, raggle (a groove cut in masonry), runnel (a small stream), innate, ability. Here is a complete sentence that transforms into another when its words are beheaded: Show this bold Prussian that brings slaughter, slaughter brings rout! It becomes: How his old Russian hat rings laughter, laughter rings out! Chapter 52 Who is El Ratón Miguelito? Mickey Mouse! The anagram of armada that is another term from Spanish is ramada (an open shelter roofed with branches). ANSWERS 217 bansw01.qxd 7/21/05 12:33 PM Page 217 bansw01.qxd 7/21/05 12:33 PM Page 218 There is more out there on the Net. Here are some selections: Wordsmith.org:The magic and music of words. The meeting place of more than half a million word lovers in some two hun- dred countries. www.wordsmith.org By Anu Garg The Oxford English Dictionary:The grandest dictionary of the English language. www.oed.com Editor: John Simpson World Wide Words: English from a British viewpoint. www.worldwidewords.org By Michael Quinion Verbatim:A language quarterly. www.verbatimmag.org Editor: Erin McKean 219 Web Resources: More Fun with Words bsource.qxd 7/21/05 12:39 PM Page 219 The Vocabula Review: An online magazine about the English language. www.vocabula.com Editor: Robert Hartwell Fiske AskOxford: Language lore from the editors of Oxford University Press. www.askoxford.com Word Ways: A journal of recreational linguistics. This is hard-core stuff. www.wordways.com Editor:A. Ross Eckler 220 WEB RESOURCES bsource.qxd 7/21/05 12:39 PM Page 220 aestival, 67 agelast, 6 alembic, 44 ambit, 67 ambsace, 76 amesace, 76 amicable, 133 amigo, 212 amphigory, 29 amphigouri, 29 anon, 22 antebellum, 193 aporia, 99 apparat, 155 archimage, 184 armada, 214 assize, 89 assoil, 20 astrobleme, 98 baksheesh, 116 beastings, 183 beestings, 183 bellicose, 194 biennial, 42 biestings, 183 bissextile, 80 Blighty, 155 blighty, 155 bobby, 54 bogart, 170 brad, 55 brassy, 167 cadogan, 10 casus belli, 195 cataract, 56 catch-22, 129 cavalier, 191 221 Index of Words bindex.qxd 7/21/05 12:42 PM Page 221 ceteris paribus, 197 chandler, 96 Chautauqua, 24 checkmate, 15 cheval de bataille, 191 cheval-de-frise, 189 chevaux de bataille, 191 chevaux-de-frise, 189 Chinese wall, 72 chutzpa, 32 chutzpah, 32 cineast, 173 cineaste, 173 cinematheque, 171 cingular, 136 clepe, 21 cloture, 19 cockamamie, 142 cockamamy, 142 collyria, 59 collyrium, 59 collyriums, 59 conspectus, 29 conurbation, 179 conversant, 89 cruciverbalist, 7 cryptonym, 158 cumshaw, 115 dasypygal, 201 decimate, 102 deep-six, 128 deltiology, 148 demagog, 102 demagogue, 102 depone, 152 derby, 12 derring-do, 51 desultory, 185 diplopia, 75 disembogue, 213 distrain, 152 doppelgänger, 78 double entendre, 76 draggle, 205 dragoman, 154 dragomans, 154 dragomen, 154 dreary, 57 duende, 213 duopoly, 95 Dutch auction, 74 eagre, 41 egregious, 103 eighty-six, 124 86, 124 emptor, 94 en banc, 151 endgame, 17 endue, 41 equitant, 186 erudite, 140 estival, 67 estoppel, 36 exonumia, 148 222 INDEX OF WORDS bindex.qxd 7/21/05 12:42 PM Page 222 exonym, 156 extemporize, 174 facinorous, 200 fain, 112 fartlek, 88 feisty, 103 fen, 112 fin de siècle, 82 fin-de-siècle, 82 frangible, 134 French leave, 72 gainsay, 23 gambit, 15 gaumless, 145 Gibraltar, 25 glossal, 92 goldbrick, 165 gormless, 145 Greek calends, 81 Greek kalends, 81 gudgeon, 62 hapax legomena, 108 hapax legomenon, 108 harridan, 191 hearken, 23 helpmeet, 50 high muckamuck, 208 high-muck-a-muck, 208 high-muckety-muck, 208 high-mucky-muck, 208 hinterland, 154 Hobson’s choice, 190 honcho, 117 hors de combat, 187 houri, 46 hyperbole, 109 ides, 80 idiopathy, 119 impregnable, 85 impresario, 175 imprest, 41 inconnu, 63 indite, 140 indolent, 132 irade, 67 Irish bull, 73 jeune premier, 171 jihad, 46 juju, 163 Kilkenny cats, 26 kvetch, 34 lability, 206 laches, 37 lambent, 183 lanate, 68 leaden, 168 lief, 112 loco, 213 loricate, 100 INDEX OF WORDS 223 bindex.qxd 7/21/05 12:42 PM Page 223 losel, 6 lucent, 136 MacGuffin, 172 macroscopic, 175 magnum opus, 30 manito, 209 manitou, 209 matronym, 159 McGuffin, 172 meed, 111 mellifluous, 86 menology, 82 mensch, 33 menschen, 33 mensches, 33 metaphor, 108 metaplasm, 110 metronym, 159 minnow, 62 mittimus, 38 monestrous, 19 mononym, 157 monopsony, 95 muck-a-muck, 208 muckety-muck, 208 mumbo jumbo, 164 nadir, 45 nares, 90 naris, 90 nebbish, 7 nevus, 92 niddering, 48 nom de guerre, 192 noms de guerre, 192 nosegay, 58 nosology, 119 notaphily, 149 nummary, 95 nutriment, 20 nyctalopia, 121 obsidian, 49 officious, 104 opsimath, 5 orihon, 29 orotund, 204 orrery, 10 oust, 84 Oxfordian, 11 oxter, 91 parol, 151 passible, 18 Pax Romana, 25 pentimenti, 141 pentimento, 141 pinnate, 205 placebo, 120 plausive, 176 polemic, 193 pollex, 91 pollices, 91 postdiluvian, 176 powwow, 209 224 INDEX OF WORDS bindex.qxd 7/21/05 12:42 PM Page 224 prudential, 136 pudency, 99 pythoness, 183 qua, 197 quacksalver, 43 randy, 52 rapscallion, 133 redoubt, 184 remontant, 100 remora, 63 Rock of Gibraltar, 25 roman à clef, 28 Roman holiday, 73 sachem, 208 sacrilegious, 83 saltant, 179 sangfroid, 154 sang-froid, 154 saponaceous, 201 satchel, 77 scalawag, 145 scallawag, 145 scallywag, 145 schlep, 35 schlepp, 35 sciolist, 146 scion, 134 scission, 84 scripophily, 147 scrofulous, 143 seltzer, 26 sennight, 22 sequela, 118 sequelae, 118 shlep, 35 shlepp, 35 silver bullet, 166 sixty-four-dollar question, 124 $64 question, 124 smorgasbord, 116 sobriquet, 140 solatium, 37 soubriquet, 140 spavined, 187 spoor, 163 stalemate, 16 stat, 197 sui juris, 38 suppurate, 138 taboo, 117 talisman, 47 tardigrade, 181 tarry, 60 Tattersall, 187 tattersall, 187 ted, 53 teknonym, 158 telic, 178 terra firma, 198 tin ear, 168 tony, 52 tope, 64, 65 INDEX OF WORDS 225 bindex.qxd 7/21/05 12:42 PM Page 225 . PM Page 220 aestival, 67 agelast, 6 alembic, 44 ambit, 67 ambsace, 76 amesace, 76 amicable, 133 amigo, 212 amphigory, 29 amphigouri, 29 anon, 22 antebellum, 193 aporia, 99 apparat, 155 archimage,. Chapter 38 Endonyms and exonyms Livorno: Leghorn Moskva: Moscow Hellas: Greece Eesti: Estonia Alemanha: Portuguese for Germany Kanada: German for Canada Litwa: Polish for Lithuania Inglaterra:. How his old Russian hat rings laughter, laughter rings out! Chapter 52 Who is El Ratón Miguelito? Mickey Mouse! The anagram of armada that is another term from Spanish is ramada (an open shelter