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:
  • 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.
Check your answers here.

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