- LIH-muh-zeen: What his former friends couldn't believe Billy Ray Valentine was riding around in during Trading Places.
- PAH-ruh-dee: Like Airplane! and Blazing Saddles.
- ARR-uh-guns: believing you're smarter than Dr. Jacque Bailly
- VEHR-bee-uhj: what this week is full of.
- THUH-row: "Please see him, Jeffrey. He's a good man, and ..."
- SEH-muh-teh-ree: Where Stephen King's pets go.
- reh-BUT-uhl: "I'd like to save two minutes for ..."
- AH-floo-uhnt: again, like Billy Ray Valentine, especially after that FCOJ insider trading deal. If challenged, I can use all of these words in a sentence relating to Trading Places.
- uh-BISS: The James Cameron movie everyone forgot.
- WAHR-unt: the lite metal band we'd like to forget ("Heaven", "Down Boys").
- KYOO-buh-kull: where my red Swingline stapler is.
- suh-SEED: What you can't do from the Union, constitutionally. Even if you're Texas.
- IZ-muss: Panama! Pa-na-ma-huh!
- uh-SIGH-luhm: a place of refuge. What lies in the shadow of the statue?
- SEh-duhn-teh-ree: lazy.
- kuhn-JEHN-uh-tuhl: blame your parents.
- day-CORE: blame the person who picked out that wallpaper.
- SKAY-leen: blame whoever drew that messed-up triangle.
- VAH-sihl-uh-tore-ee: what you can't be at the microphone.
- MOR-ayz: the unwritten rules about how to behave.
- KEE-wee-tahs: the polis.
- mih-KAW-buhr: I hope you read David Copperfield.
- KWO-muh-do: manner
- KALK: "linguistic borrowing that consists of the imitation in one language of some part of the peculiar range of meaning of a particular word in another language "
- ah-nuh-kuh-REK-suhs: longitudinal ridging and splitting of the finger and toe nails.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
NO, I WILL NOT GIVE YOU A LANGUAGE OF ORIGIN: Here's the twenty-five words which counted in yesterday's preliminary part of the Bee. One point each:
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