[TR] Proper English for a Proper Car

[wbeech]

I believe Dave Templeton just referred to “Starting Fluif” in a post last month.  So how many times does a new word have to be used before Webster will recognize it as a real word?

Bill

 

 

From: Triumphs [mailto:triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of William Brewer
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2018 2:08 PM
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Subject: [TR] Proper English for a Proper Car

 

     I drove my TR3 to work the other morning. When I left my home at o'dark thirty it was in the mid-50's and I wore a leather coat. I live at about the mile high elevation in the southern Sierras. When I left my work in Mojave that afternoon, it was 109 degrees. The car interior felt hotter and hotter inside as I drove and I was looking forward to getting up the hill to cooler temperatures.  Soon thereafter I ran across a new proper English word - "Calescent" which means "growing warm; increasing in heat". I also enjoy using the word "Recalcitrant" to describe the TR's too-fast-a-shift from 1st to 2nd, "recalcitrant" meaning "resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant". A synonym could be "balk".

     Another word that has come in handy many times, especially at parties, is "calipygous". I use it in conversation whenever possible. Usually, ladies say "thank-you" for the compliment and then go home and look it up.

 

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/callipygous

 

    A word I haven't seen used on the Triumphs list recently would be "Fluif". I can't remember who used that misspelling two decades ago, but it has still stuck in my vocabulary. Who was that? Are you still on the list?  I think that his name was Joe-something.

 

    Have a good Friday. Triumph over conformity.

 

     Bill in Tehachapi

     Anglophile, Logophile

 

 

 

 

 

 

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