Language & Grammar discussion

My guess......C

D....I watch American sitcoms

D... I copy the work of my neighbors.

Forget supressing the laughter-- that brought out a full out chortle and snort :) Though I Do like your snurk, Donna :) I'll have to use that!

Christophenes or chayote

A)fruit
B)vegetable
C)cheese
D)spice

D - wild guess, have no idea

Nope--but I'd have guessed the same if I didn't know too that's why I put it there :p

my guess.....its fruit

It sounds like a cheese to me!! Does that make me cheesy?

B Chayote's a squash.

B it is :) It's a Caribbean veggie that's quite good cold in a salad or alone with garlic.

A French letter

A)diaphragm
B)vibrator
C)condom
D)spermicide

Que?

Too easy....C!!!!

C

Why a "French Letter"?

C it is! No clue as to why it was called "a French letter" though--anyone know?

Only the English called it a 'French letter'.
J

Ok I understand the French (they obviously imported the first ones from France ) but why a letter?

To all those who answered for meshugenah, the answer was indeed, oddly however a is partially right as there is a heavy metal group who goes by the same.
As for a french letter?
I'm guessing....B, vibrator. Woot.

Not touching THAT one.

Here's another good one from Greek.

omphaloskepsis
A)to contemplate one's navel
B)to look for the center of the world
C)to consider mathematics
D)to think about death

It's A and the correct way to write it is omphaloskopisis

Oh dear, that was horribly pedantic wasn't it?

On the whole "French letter" thingie (whoops, not a Freudian slip, I promise)...the French called condoms "English letters", no doubt due to the great love these two countries had (and still have) for each other. The letter bit, and I'm just guessing at this part, but I understood that they were packaged in small letter-like wrappings as these were the days before our normal sized letters...
J

My husband, the retired OBGYN, came home one day and told me a patient had told him,

"I can't be pregnant. My husband always uses condominiums."

I guess you'll have to bring that up with Meriam-Webster and the Oxford Dictionaries then.

LOL Ruth! He must've had quite the private chuckle after!

Donna thanks for the support
Here is another one:
Perpendicular
A)Horizontal
B)At a right angle with the horizon
C)Slanting
D)Oval

Hee hee! I never knew that! Perpendicular as a word, I know(and I agree, it's B). As a time period, well, I took the liberty of looking it up here. (Sorry wikipedia-haters, but I figure it's good enough for casual or preliminary research.)

Cheat!!!! No peeking allowed!!!!!

That's OK then!

Thanks. I do try to fight the itch to look up words I don't know till someone else has posted its meaning. It's tough! (I'm the type to even interrupt romantic moments to look up a word!)

Your man would do well to read Romeo & Juliet, then:

"You kiss by the book." (Act II, Scene 2)

Hee hee. He liked your recommendation.

orogeny

1) oral hygiene
2) flagrant violation
3) mountain building
4) sexuality

4....I think.....it has been so long!

Debbie wrote: "4....I think.....it has been so long!"

Ah, Debs. It's 4. My geological past rears up to know this one.

But mountains do get built in orogenous zones.

On Venus, mounds are the orogenous zones.

ruth is right, it is the mountain building :P
the only reason I know is because I'm learning about that in geography at school right now..

GOBO

1. A female Hobo
2. An insert of cloth in a seam
3. A device to shield a microphone from sound
4. A wading bird

I'll take #4 (though #3 tempted me)

I will take #3. because that is correct ! right?

I will take #3 that is closest to the meaning, I think.

YES...it's 3 Carol!

I think it means a device to shield light but I suppose it could be anything. That was why I said that was the closest definition.

I don't know . I check Gabi , apparently it is.. There you go.

defalcate

1. to peel layers off a nail
2. the scraping of tartar from teeth
3. to misappropriate funds as a trustee
4. to renege on fiduciary responsibilities

I say #3 with a leaning to #1.

I think it's #1