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</head><body>It was Joe Curry, many many years ago in a misspell in a post! It caught on and never left!<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"> On August 17, 2018 at 2:08 PM William Brewer <billbrewer59@yahoo.com> wrote:
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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.
<span>The car interior felt hotter and hotter inside as I drove and </span>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
<span><span class="ydp70ea1781css-9sn2pa ydp70ea1781e10vl5dg6"><span class="ydp70ea1781one-click">"resisting</span> <span class="ydp70ea1781one-click">authority</span> or <span class="ydp70ea1781one-click">control;</span> <span class="ydp70ea1781one-click">not</span> <span class="ydp70ea1781one-click">obedient</span> or <span class="ydp70ea1781one-click">compliant</span></span></span>". A synonym could be "balk".
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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.
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<a href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/callipygous" target="_blank">https://www.dictionary.com/browse/callipygous</a>
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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.
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Have a good Friday. Triumph over conformity.
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<span> </span>Anglophile, Logophile
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