speaking of fish when i was a teenager i worked on a sport fishing boat out of los angeles when the boat was moving between spots to fish i would drag a lure and catch different types of tuna fillet them & chop into pieces cover with soy and people where eating it in less then ten minuts from pulling it out of the water it was fillet & eaten with out cooking yuk.i had a great time fishing but i will not eat them
At last exams just 9-11 students made it, though most of them were working at such jobs before ………..school is different then just put this or that together and write down what you found.
I think I can make it but we will see at Juli/August
Once in Asia after eating some chicken, oh my, mai dee – not good at all. Shall spare the details however felt really unwell for a few days.
Salmon is tasty. I hear Salmon farms actually put dye into the feed so as to enrich the colour of the fish, which is not good. Eat with ones eyes! Is hard to beat in any case.
Love Tuna, mayo, onion and sweetcorn on toast, dam the world feels a better place after a few rounds of that. The Thais certainly know how to cook up some of the best seafood, ever. In fact, I would go as far as saying that Thai cooking is the best the world over. Never two dishes ever the same. Becoming a bit of a dab hand at it too. Met some Thai students at Reading Uni who help me with both language and cooking. Pat (hello/ sawadee) showed me some amazing dishes which made my taste buds over loads with delight. Hungry now…..
Hmmm, must book ticket to Thailand. Promised myself to spend a week in Chang Mai as have reputal cooking classes. In the mean time, I guess The George Cafe will have to do!!
Marina,
You are asking about the word “leap”
Well allow me to shoot for the moon and get mangled and allow my resilence of muscle to reform the bone structure and sping up to normalcy again. Kind of like bungy jumping theoretically speaking of course
Naturaly speaking the salient is when an animal jumps or leaps
Saute’ – a french past praticiple(to share) of sauter is (leap)witch is pronounced satire in latin
A huge percent of fish for consumption are now farm raised. Salmon, shrimp (all shell fish)…if it’s wild you’d know by the taste if it’s inexpensive (& in U.S.) it’s farm raised.
Wild Salmon used to be in every river in California, even the so called L.A. river, and California brown bears would fish them, same bear that’s on the state flag. This was, of course, before Cadillacs & Oldsmobiles took over.
Well now you done gone went and done it. Tore open a number nine can o’ worms, that is. Good thing though. I was just a-fixin’ to head on down to the crawdad hole anyway!
Wow. Sure, sure. I’ll tell you in a second. First, could you just write down the phone # of whoever sold you those brownies? I’d really like to get their recipe.
continuing the trend i hope after you had your date thePenthouse pet dog-of-a-lesbian who thought you knew Du tch meant something other than “split the bill”, but you didn’t and forgot how much to tip that you didn’t get salmonella poisoning…
Orgin is unknown. One theory is it is a derivation of a persons name. Jasbo Brown was a musician who traveled along the Mississippi playing blues/cabaret varient style of music. He ended up in Chicago ultimately. The style evolved from “Jasbo” to “Jazz”; as one theory goes. Others involve varients of Gullah words for excitement and/or jumping.
PETA don’t impress me.
Assigning human characteristics
toi animals is a job for Disney!
Animal ethics – COME ON!
They just want a cut of that
ASPCA money cha-ching!
Sorry roadrunrnch, have been moving these past 2 weeks.. and trying to get settled.. plus I got a new camera and trying to figure out how to work it….. I will get settled in shortly, I promise!
Don’t let life pass you by while you get settled in, Marina.
As a lifelong mover, I know that you never finish settling in until the day you move on again.
Have fun. Be happy. Mwah.
(Why don’t you have a kissy-kissy emoticon? I’m sure that we’d all wear holes in our screens clicking on it for you.)
In the last two weeks I just moved from Southern Cal. to Paris…yippy for me…and I’m basically settled, but what was I thinking? Well, being unsettled is better than being restless, or is it the other way around?
Marina’s busy, no doubt. Me? I’m planting my nose in my old French text book Color me dumb or stangely ambitious…
Well of COURSE I watched “Wild Kingdom,” I mean because who doesn’t? But all that other stuff I said about man-made biological threats compounding the already grave plight of the world’s anadromous fish populations is verifiable. In fact, I do have a little schooling in these matters.
Try googling ‘genetically modified organism.’ After checking in on the latest ‘frankensalmon’ developments, get a load of what Monsanto, Astra-Zeneca, Con-Agra, and some others have done to perpetuate their corporate stranglehold on the seed stock for the global human population’s food supply from now into the indefinite future. It’s eye-opening, to say the least.
A marriage of economy and utility? Wit and wisdom, or entropy and futility? A marriage of punctual puns and tardy circumspection? A marriage of colloquial twang and imminent doom? Crusty euphemism and feisty pugilism? Hahaha, no, I’ve actually never been selected for groom duty, Bob, ya feathery wee winged wiseacre. Thanks for your input, though. Have a Rolling Rock on me!
You’re a gentleman and a scholar, Sir, and I guess, coming from Kentucky, a fine judge of racehorses.
Good looking, too. (for a shrunken head)
Cheers, have one yersel’.
Well, if you’re talking about what the difference is between the two when it comes to what they mean for the spoken language, then here we go:
Pronounce – This describes the general consensus on what the technically correct sound that each letter or each syllable makes in a word.
Enunciate – This describes how well you speak each letter or syllable in a word.
For example: one person can pronounce “Oregon” like “Or-eh-gehn” or like “Or-uh-gone”, but their enunciation is judged solely on how well they articulate those sounds.
Dear teacher,
Thank you soooooooooo much for this one! One of my students asked me this question, and I didn’t kow how to answer…..
Amicalement
Don Felipe Gonzales amateur de saule
Pennslytucky9 you must be some kind of road scholar. With a comment like you made a little further down about the salmon being bred in captivity. I just can’t believe the words that flowed from those mountain man lips..I am at awe with you. Or did you watch Wild Kingdom or something.
Hey,
I would just like to request a word :]]
It’s : Syzygy
Rather strange word meaning, alignment of 3 celestial bodies in a straight line. Was told it by my tutor at uni and wanted to know the origin.
Many thanks
Nikki.
Also love the lesson very good :]
x
HEY
I actually owned a company in the UK called Syzygy Products Ltd and researched the meaning of this bizzare word extensively before forming the company.
I don’t strictly agree with your meaning though. I would say that it is the gravitational balance that keeps these celestial bodies that keeps these 2 or more items in harmony. I don’t agree with the straight line theory, as most of the celestial bodies orbit, and the line is one of the many dimensional gravitational plains that keep the balance together.
Anyway the origin of the word was in 1656 from the Greek word Syzigia (yoke, pair, union of two, harmonious conjunction) and refers to the 3 harmonious components of an egg originally, namely the yoke suspended in the centre of the albumen within the shell.
Formed from the 2 ancient words Syn (together) Zygon (yoke).
Obviously Astronomy put a new slant to the meaning later, but the basic theory is the same
Thanks for the Quick reply :]]
Now i no more about the word.
But I still believe my meaning to be correct as in Astronomy. an alignment of three celestial objects, as the sun, the earth, and either the moon or a planet: Syzygy in the sun-earth-moon system occurs at the time of full moon and new moon.
But that is when the pronunciation is siz-i-jee (spelt frenetically).
Where as when the Pronunciation is sĭz’ə-jē (spelt frenetically) means your gravitational orbit theory.. So maybe they are both correct.
But this was my tutors definition:
syzygy
Noun
The straight line configuration of 3 celestial bodies (as the sun and earth and moon) in a gravitational system.
But yes anyway thanks for the reply and now i no more about the word :]]
You are very welcome Nikki. That is what I remember that I read when I found the word 10 years ago in a dictionary and decided to adopt it as a company name, and I am not too bad at etymology but don’t assume that I am right, as this perfection is more Marina’s domain as we all know.
You have me wondering now…my memory is failing…OED Oxford English Dictionary is the ultimate source and doesn’t list it online despite me finding it in the same paper version 10 years ago.
Your theory about both being right is very polite and definately makes sense, I need to visit a library or find my old 70,000 word OED . You really have me going now….
PS Although the gravity holds everything together it has no relevence whatsover to the word itself of course. Although it was originally from egg yokes the balance however appears to be on one plain between 2 or 3 bodies and therefore on a straight line disproving my theory that it is on one all dimensional plains as a general harmony.
Well done I say
Please tell me Nikki that you are a girl because we need more girls to prove my theory that we are not all a load of perverts that only watch to get an eye full. All the Nikki’s in the UK are girls and males are Nicky.
Syzyzy Syjojy …….oh bugger it sausages I have hod chew many dwinkz.
Little Hamstosh cant hold their liquor
I went on my Hamster’s Imaginary English Dictionary
Syzygy (n) (adj) The alignment of three morning nutritious bodies on a plate in a charming smiley face. Usually comprised of 2 eggs, a rasher of bacon and a sausage.
Hey,
Thanks for replying ever so quickly.
Is strange how many meanings i can find for the word yet there is no one which holds more ground than the other, still i am sticking with the theory that we are both correct as words can have more than one meaning.
And to answer your question i am a Guy not a girl i am afraid, Nikki tends to be female within the UK but my full name is Nicholas and i am known as Nikki as my hero is Nikki Sixx (Bass player for Motley Crue) and people started calling me Nikki due to my style of dress and such..
I shall Join the forum more often, sounds good.
Hi marina, I’d like to request the word apache.
Sense I am “hot for tech” I’ve came across the apache web server program several times, and I know it’s named after an Indian tribe.
There is also a helicopter model with the same name…
I’d like to know what the significance/origin of the name is
u can check my movies at http://www.youtube.com/hotfortech
(And yes I was inspired by you, when I name and opened my YouTube account )
sniperskaya, I read that as well.. but my understanding is that most of the Salmon eaten is of the farmed kind anyway.. so it may not have as detrimental an effect on price some people think.. but who knows?
Marina, Look into what salmon farming has and is doing to our native wild salmon population.Farm raised has no where near the goodies or flavor for you that wild salmon does[they feed them pellet type food].Patagonia’s catalog had a great article on it several years back.King in the spring and summer is the best tasting of all!
All the best Teacher, Scotthorn
Genetically-Modified salmon for farming are generally much faster-growing and quickly grow to an enormous size.
Scotthorn aptly points out how farmed salmon also lack flavor and color, so coloring is often added to make them look real. They pose a serious threat to native populations if (WHEN) they get loose because female fish tend to select mates based upon large size, and the GM salmon are easily twice the size of their naturally-occurring competitors so their recent genetic modifications will soon infect the entire gene pool. One of the more recent modifications will allow them to breed in SALT WATER instead of heading up freshwater streams to spawn as they always have.
When these get out into the biosphere, (because of the aforementioned size differential and the competitive advantage it brings to breeding) it will only be a matter of time before the salmon stop running upstream to breed. A massive collapse of many other animal populations which rely on the annual salmon run will follow: eagle, bear, otter, mink, and hundreds of other species reliant on the flood of nutrients brought up into the headwaters by the mating salmon will perish, falling like dominoes.
BTW, “frankensalmon” have escaped into Norwegian waters so we will soon see the ramifications of this genetic manipulation in the world’s oceans as the new giants outbreed the smaller, naturally-occurring males. Brace for impact.
Oh hell guys the Earth is get ready to go back to the Dynos. Man is a complete flop. We started out on the top of the food chain, and now We are sorry for just being at all. ie It Mans fault for every thing bad, but all the good is ……….lies. ok I;ll stop.
I could only wish you were right about going back to the dinosaurs: I believe (permit me to wildly conjecture here) that the next “geologic layer,” as it were, that will will be laid down by an animal (as opposed to a plant community) species will be that of the social insects. We’re talkin’ the ants, wasps, and bees here. In my view, they are most likely to be the next “mammal” because we mammals are basically the next “dinosaurs” if we don’t somehow manage to grab the wheel and take our foot off the accelerator.
I think the social insects have the best chance of surviving the major species die-offs to come because they are small, omnivorous, guided by a unified will to succeed as a group, fear nothing, and can operate underground for indefinite periods. In these ways they are similar to the original tiny mammals who lived during the last days of the dinosaurs, some 65MYago), plus, they have a short breeding/gestation period and so generations pass by quickly, not like us humans with our 15-30-year generations. The benefit of the short gestation period is that if climatic or other conditions change rapidly, genetic traits for variations in size or characteristics will begin to naturally “select” the next round of survivors, based upon whether the characteristics they have are conducive to, or contrary to survival under the new conditions. It is also important to add that mutations that occur which help them to survive will be more quickly absorbed into the gene pool, so the end result is that they have a better chance of evolving toward a form most suited to their immediate environment. Those that lack the latest and coolest adaptations will decline and eventually disappear. And the faster your species can adapt to change, the better off you’ll be.
Bottom line, time to ease up on the throttle and grab the wheel before it’s over the cliff we go. I’m gonna start thinking about raisin’ some chickens to help keep up a fresh layer o’ poop on the garden.
Insect would rule the world if not for the lack of leadership. They are content with maintaining the status quote. By not standing out and keeping the playing field level, ie( no winners so no losers.) they are happy just to serve the QUEEN. There are some of Us like this, For extra credit, Can you name the forms of Government that use these ideals?
Ah, but there is where you are incorrect. Leadership is something the ants, bees, and wasps do have, and it’s programmed in on an instinctual level. It’s built-in instead of coercive or greed-driven like ours. Remember, I’m talking about the social insects here, not just any old insects. When we’re gone, they’ll still be tirelessly communicating together and cooperating to achieve common goals. And the underlying scenario is that the mammals and large land animals would have already long since died out, so what’s left? Any guesses?
INCORRECT maybe, imprecise yes. sorry. What I should have said; The leadership is not intent on ruling the world. Their leadership’s intent is to care for it’s young. Some ants do conquer others, but for food or slaves. Not world supremacy. More likely Bacteria will end up being left in the end game.. Too start again, again, etc—–>>>inf There are hours of back and forth argument, but in the end Humans intent to destroy them selves is not common in other species. except Fire?
Wow, some good interaction here, Roadrunnerranch. Thanks!
I’m just speculating though. You are correct in pointing out that bacteria will be a strong contender, always was, and will continue to be. And it is true that self-awareness (which eventually leads to oppression of other species, as in animal husbandry and agriculture) and eventual aspiration toward world domination is a trait unique to humans. Excellent observations! 50 million years after the mammals are extinct, who knows how well the social insects will have adapted? I just think they’re most likely to predominate because they have already developed excellent survival strategies of organization, communication and leadership hierarchy. Can’t really think of any other critters that come close, though I’m interested to hear more peoples’ impressions. I’m not sure what you mean about fire…
there’s an old ecological dogma that given enough time and enough food, a population will pollute its environment beyond the carrying capacity of the environment…
aren’t we all glad to know that science has this figured out already?…
now if we could only reach the masses…
oh, wait…maybe the price of gas will help them understand…
Gas is just what we feed our toys. Wait ’til cars are a memory and the price of food goes the same way! Maybe then we’ll start to see some humans reach over to turn off the alarm clock.
Conversation between two blondes, overheard in a dance hall sometime in the fifties:-
1st Girl. I hear your new boyfriend is in the army.
2nd Girl. Yes, he’s in the King’s African Rifles.
1st Girl. Is that a good regiment?
2nd Girl. I think so. They have white officers with black privates.
1st Girl. OOOO! VERY exotic!
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speaking of fish when i was a teenager i worked on a sport fishing boat out of los angeles when the boat was moving between spots to fish i would drag a lure and catch different types of tuna fillet them & chop into pieces cover with soy and people where eating it in less then ten minuts from pulling it out of the water it was fillet & eaten with out cooking yuk.i had a great time fishing but i will not eat them
*kiss* *kiss* *kiss* *kiss* *kiss* rate/look.
smells fishy…hows school?
I’m fine……school is more or less fine
At last exams just 9-11 students made it, though most of them were working at such jobs before
………..school is different then just put this or that together and write down what you found.
I think I can make it but we will see at Juli/August
Thanks tedt…..good fortunes to you, I hope .
Peace out of my Pie
I must be like farming; all depended on Mother nature
Once in Asia after eating some chicken, oh my, mai dee – not good at all. Shall spare the details however felt really unwell for a few days.
Salmon is tasty. I hear Salmon farms actually put dye into the feed so as to enrich the colour of the fish, which is not good. Eat with ones eyes! Is hard to beat in any case.
Love Tuna, mayo, onion and sweetcorn on toast, dam the world feels a better place after a few rounds of that. The Thais certainly know how to cook up some of the best seafood, ever. In fact, I would go as far as saying that Thai cooking is the best the world over. Never two dishes ever the same. Becoming a bit of a dab hand at it too. Met some Thai students at Reading Uni who help me with both language and cooking. Pat (hello/ sawadee) showed me some amazing dishes which made my taste buds over loads with delight. Hungry now…..
Hmmm, must book ticket to Thailand. Promised myself to spend a week in Chang Mai as have reputal cooking classes. In the mean time, I guess The George Cafe will have to do!!
Marina,

You are asking about the word “leap”
Well allow me to shoot for the moon and get mangled and allow my resilence of muscle to reform the bone structure and sping up to normalcy again. Kind of like bungy jumping theoretically speaking of course
Naturaly speaking the salient is when an animal jumps or leaps
Saute’ – a french past praticiple(to share) of sauter is (leap)witch is pronounced satire in latin
Greg
Farm raise even though it helps is not the answer. When they get out of the farm they damage other salmons.
Interesting. Everyone had asked themselves that question once.
A huge percent of fish for consumption are now farm raised. Salmon, shrimp (all shell fish)…if it’s wild you’d know by the taste if it’s inexpensive (& in U.S.) it’s farm raised.
Wild Salmon used to be in every river in California, even the so called L.A. river, and California brown bears would fish them, same bear that’s on the state flag. This was, of course, before Cadillacs & Oldsmobiles took over.
wOOt! The stars are back. Fixed the bug I guess.
I am going to pretend I was teacher’s pet again because as it happens my first name IS Shane!
MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA! (It feels so goooood to hear you say it, btw!!)
-))
very nice post, well done
??????????teach, when you say ” There you go ” GO? “There you are”. or “There It is”. or “That’s It.” maybe , TA DA, There you GO!
I never thought about the word : GO
This is a very useful word.
GO is a true multitasker.
There are a hundred usages
A word worth a look by HFWs
Also curious the triple go went gone etymology.
Well now you done gone went and done it. Tore open a number nine can o’ worms, that is. Good thing though. I was just a-fixin’ to head on down to the crawdad hole anyway!
ummm, do you catch crawdads with worms–#9 or otherwise & if so is there some art to it, send me the link, or a letter or an Art Linkletter.
Wow. Sure, sure. I’ll tell you in a second. First, could you just write down the phone # of whoever sold you those brownies? I’d really like to get their recipe.
Hi Marina,
I reqest word “summer-salt”
A very SALIENT request – it’s another “leaping” word.
Somer-sault. Nothing to do with salt or summer.
continuing the trend i hope after you had your date thePenthouse pet dog-of-a-lesbian who thought you knew Du tch meant something other than “split the bill”, but you didn’t and forgot how much to tip that you didn’t get salmonella poisoning…
betcha wish the trend would stop, ‘eh?…
ok…:wink:
Funny that salmonella is in the news again for the tomatoes. Love the channel!
Hi Marina,
I would like to find out the origin of the word “Jazz”.
Thanks
Ya me 2
Orgin is unknown. One theory is it is a derivation of a persons name. Jasbo Brown was a musician who traveled along the Mississippi playing blues/cabaret varient style of music. He ended up in Chicago ultimately. The style evolved from “Jasbo” to “Jazz”; as one theory goes. Others involve varients of Gullah words for excitement and/or jumping.
Guys , Think She got any hate mail from Animal superiority groups?
ie PETA , for saying it’s OK to eat salmon.
there you go, another………..hey ” rights ” there is a word , the most misunderstood and misused word next to …….lied.
PETA don’t impress me.
Assigning human characteristics
toi animals is a job for Disney!
Animal ethics – COME ON!
They just want a cut of that
ASPCA money cha-ching!
Careful,
tiger-the-vicious might read that.
Don’t make him get off his wheel.
Teach , You must be a very busy little thing of late. Your absents in the posts is noted. May [ i ] WE ask , whats up?
Sorry roadrunrnch, have been moving these past 2 weeks.. and trying to get settled.. plus I got a new camera and trying to figure out how to work it….. I will get settled in shortly, I promise!
Don’t let life pass you by while you get settled in, Marina.
As a lifelong mover, I know that you never finish settling in until the day you move on again.
Have fun. Be happy. Mwah.
(Why don’t you have a kissy-kissy emoticon? I’m sure that we’d all wear holes in our screens clicking on it for you.)
He’s right, You need to throw some scraps to us seagulls or We might FLOCK OFF.
Bob, i already do wear out my screen clickin’ on Marina…
i mean, she’s kinda right there when u click the vid play button, right?…
and Marina, i’ve been movin’ in for two years now…oops…almost three…Life’s for livin’, go have fun while you are young…
sure as hell wish i had…
In the last two weeks I just moved from Southern Cal. to Paris…yippy for me…and I’m basically settled, but what was I thinking? Well, being unsettled is better than being restless, or is it the other way around?
Color me dumb or stangely ambitious…
Marina’s busy, no doubt. Me? I’m planting my nose in my old French text book
Bienvenue a Paris, ami. Bonne chance!
i wanted to know the origin of these words. you can pick one:
hostile
prejudice
paradox
thanks HotForWords!
I request the word “summer-salt”
-Homidog11
i’d like to know the origin of the word “booze” commonly used to refer to alcohol
love your channel
keep it up
i want to know about the word PATRIOT
Hey check out this site on salmonella. Just as we were discussing it. Here crops up a case involving tomatoes.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24951023/
Hi Mike,
Well of COURSE I watched “Wild Kingdom,” I mean because who doesn’t? But all that other stuff I said about man-made biological threats compounding the already grave plight of the world’s anadromous fish populations is verifiable. In fact, I do have a little schooling in these matters.
Try googling ‘genetically modified organism.’ After checking in on the latest ‘frankensalmon’ developments, get a load of what Monsanto, Astra-Zeneca, Con-Agra, and some others have done to perpetuate their corporate stranglehold on the seed stock for the global human population’s food supply from now into the indefinite future. It’s eye-opening, to say the least.
She’s psychic too.
Pronounce vs. enunciate When do you use one over the other?
Thanks,
Ben
I now enunciate you Man and Wife. Hmmm. You’re right, natoreus. HotForWords must investigate.
your right , it should be- I NOW CONDEMN YOU……….
NOW I know what sort of marriage he has.
A marriage of economy and utility? Wit and wisdom, or entropy and futility? A marriage of punctual puns and tardy circumspection? A marriage of colloquial twang and imminent doom? Crusty euphemism and feisty pugilism? Hahaha, no, I’ve actually never been selected for groom duty, Bob, ya feathery wee winged wiseacre. Thanks for your input, though. Have a Rolling Rock on me!
You’re a gentleman and a scholar, Sir, and I guess, coming from Kentucky, a fine judge of racehorses.
Good looking, too. (for a shrunken head)
Cheers, have one yersel’.
I lost $10 at churchill downs. :/
My 2 favorite tips:
1. Don’t bet on the races.
2. Don’t fry bacon in the nude.
Well, if you’re talking about what the difference is between the two when it comes to what they mean for the spoken language, then here we go:
Pronounce – This describes the general consensus on what the technically correct sound that each letter or each syllable makes in a word.
Enunciate – This describes how well you speak each letter or syllable in a word.
For example: one person can pronounce “Oregon” like “Or-eh-gehn” or like “Or-uh-gone”, but their enunciation is judged solely on how well they articulate those sounds.
Does that make any sense?
Why Hello Thar!!!
I’d like to request a word: “Undergrad”
Thanks!!!
Dear teacher,
Thank you soooooooooo much for this one! One of my students asked me this question, and I didn’t kow how to answer…..
Amicalement
Don Felipe Gonzales amateur de saule
shane what do you mean bey expelled
i would like to request a word. it is transvestite
Yes! Finally the teacher’s pet!
For a while there I thought maybe I had been expelled and didn’t know it.
Congratulations, Shane! Here’s your expusion notice, btw…
Oops. Your expuLsion notice.
Pennslytucky9 you must be some kind of road scholar. With a comment like you made a little further down about the salmon being bred in captivity. I just can’t believe the words that flowed from those mountain man lips..I am at awe with you. Or did you watch Wild Kingdom or something.
Pretty Girls love a BAD BOY
No hope for Buzzword and aLx then.
They don’t want to use the word “bad” so they can’t be bad.
Hey,
I would just like to request a word :]]
It’s : Syzygy
Rather strange word meaning, alignment of 3 celestial bodies in a straight line. Was told it by my tutor at uni and wanted to know the origin.
Many thanks
Nikki.
Also love the lesson very good :]
x
HEY
I actually owned a company in the UK called Syzygy Products Ltd and researched the meaning of this bizzare word extensively before forming the company.
I don’t strictly agree with your meaning though. I would say that it is the gravitational balance that keeps these celestial bodies that keeps these 2 or more items in harmony. I don’t agree with the straight line theory, as most of the celestial bodies orbit, and the line is one of the many dimensional gravitational plains that keep the balance together.
Anyway the origin of the word was in 1656 from the Greek word Syzigia (yoke, pair, union of two, harmonious conjunction) and refers to the 3 harmonious components of an egg originally, namely the yoke suspended in the centre of the albumen within the shell.
Formed from the 2 ancient words Syn (together) Zygon (yoke).
Obviously Astronomy put a new slant to the meaning later, but the basic theory is the same
Thanks for the Quick reply :]]
Now i no more about the word.
But I still believe my meaning to be correct as in Astronomy. an alignment of three celestial objects, as the sun, the earth, and either the moon or a planet: Syzygy in the sun-earth-moon system occurs at the time of full moon and new moon.
But that is when the pronunciation is siz-i-jee (spelt frenetically).
Where as when the Pronunciation is sĭz’ə-jē (spelt frenetically) means your gravitational orbit theory.. So maybe they are both correct.
But this was my tutors definition:
syzygy
Noun
The straight line configuration of 3 celestial bodies (as the sun and earth and moon) in a gravitational system.
But yes anyway thanks for the reply and now i no more about the word :]]
Many Thanks
Nikki
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You are very welcome Nikki. That is what I remember that I read when I found the word 10 years ago in a dictionary and decided to adopt it as a company name, and I am not too bad at etymology but don’t assume that I am right, as this perfection is more Marina’s domain as we all know.
You have me wondering now…my memory is failing…OED Oxford English Dictionary is the ultimate source and doesn’t list it online despite me finding it in the same paper version 10 years ago.
Your theory about both being right is very polite and definately makes sense, I need to visit a library or find my old 70,000 word OED . You really have me going now….
PS Although the gravity holds everything together it has no relevence whatsover to the word itself of course. Although it was originally from egg yokes the balance however appears to be on one plain between 2 or 3 bodies and therefore on a straight line disproving my theory that it is on one all dimensional plains as a general harmony.
Well done I say
Please tell me Nikki that you are a girl because we need more girls to prove my theory that we are not all a load of perverts that only watch to get an eye full. All the Nikki’s in the UK are girls and males are Nicky.
Talking about eyeful I found a very descriptive meaning on
http://www.answers.com/topic/syzygy?cat=technology
Eeeh they never had the internet 10 years ago sheeesh…
I also found a source to reinforce my origin memory which howver spot on.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=syzygy&searchmode=none
Please join the forum more for some eloquent fun with a bunch of lunatics and punoholics.
Regards Markie
Syzyzy Syjojy …….oh bugger it sausages I have hod chew many dwinkz.
Little Hamstosh cant hold their liquor
I went on my Hamster’s Imaginary English Dictionary
Syzygy (n) (adj) The alignment of three morning nutritious bodies on a plate in a charming smiley face. Usually comprised of 2 eggs, a rasher of bacon and a sausage.
Love Tig
Hey,
Thanks for replying ever so quickly.
Is strange how many meanings i can find for the word yet there is no one which holds more ground than the other, still i am sticking with the theory that we are both correct as words can have more than one meaning.
And to answer your question i am a Guy not a girl i am afraid, Nikki tends to be female within the UK but my full name is Nicholas and i am known as Nikki as my hero is Nikki Sixx (Bass player for Motley Crue) and people started calling me Nikki due to my style of dress and such..
I shall Join the forum more often, sounds good.
Many thanks.
Nikki
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Hi marina, I’d like to request the word apache.
Sense I am “hot for tech” I’ve came across the apache web server program several times, and I know it’s named after an Indian tribe.
There is also a helicopter model with the same name…
I’d like to know what the significance/origin of the name is
u can check my movies at http://www.youtube.com/hotfortech
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(And yes I was inspired by you, when I name and opened my YouTube account
Isn’t that what you need on your inner tube when your bikey runs over a hedgehog ?
What an apache ?
whoooo whooo whooo
Marina, I hate to break the news to you, but salmon is going to get a LOT more expensive. I think Ella’s prices are still the same…
Salmon Fishing Banned Along U.S. West Coast
Donna Gordon Blankinship in Seatac, Washington
Associated Press
April 11, 2008
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080411-AP-disappearin.html
sniperskaya, I read that as well.. but my understanding is that most of the Salmon eaten is of the farmed kind anyway.. so it may not have as detrimental an effect on price some people think.. but who knows?
p11!
proofread this!
Marina, it could be time to lock up the lox! Or maybe not…
http://www.fishfarmer-magazine.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/1658/Seafood_bank_says_salmon_prices_continuing_to_fall.html
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Marina, Look into what salmon farming has and is doing to our native wild salmon population.Farm raised has no where near the goodies or flavor for you that wild salmon does[they feed them pellet type food].Patagonia’s catalog had a great article on it several years back.King in the spring and summer is the best tasting of all!
All the best Teacher, Scotthorn
Genetically-Modified salmon for farming are generally much faster-growing and quickly grow to an enormous size.
Scotthorn aptly points out how farmed salmon also lack flavor and color, so coloring is often added to make them look real. They pose a serious threat to native populations if (WHEN) they get loose because female fish tend to select mates based upon large size, and the GM salmon are easily twice the size of their naturally-occurring competitors so their recent genetic modifications will soon infect the entire gene pool. One of the more recent modifications will allow them to breed in SALT WATER instead of heading up freshwater streams to spawn as they always have.
When these get out into the biosphere, (because of the aforementioned size differential and the competitive advantage it brings to breeding) it will only be a matter of time before the salmon stop running upstream to breed. A massive collapse of many other animal populations which rely on the annual salmon run will follow: eagle, bear, otter, mink, and hundreds of other species reliant on the flood of nutrients brought up into the headwaters by the mating salmon will perish, falling like dominoes.
BTW, “frankensalmon” have escaped into Norwegian waters so we will soon see the ramifications of this genetic manipulation in the world’s oceans as the new giants outbreed the smaller, naturally-occurring males. Brace for impact.
Oh hell guys the Earth is get ready to go back to the Dynos. Man is a complete flop. We started out on the top of the food chain, and now We are sorry for just being at all. ie It Mans fault for every thing bad, but all the good is ……….lies. ok I;ll stop.
Haha! roadrunrnch,
I could only wish you were right about going back to the dinosaurs: I believe (permit me to wildly conjecture here) that the next “geologic layer,” as it were, that will will be laid down by an animal (as opposed to a plant community) species will be that of the social insects. We’re talkin’ the ants, wasps, and bees here. In my view, they are most likely to be the next “mammal” because we mammals are basically the next “dinosaurs” if we don’t somehow manage to grab the wheel and take our foot off the accelerator.
I think the social insects have the best chance of surviving the major species die-offs to come because they are small, omnivorous, guided by a unified will to succeed as a group, fear nothing, and can operate underground for indefinite periods. In these ways they are similar to the original tiny mammals who lived during the last days of the dinosaurs, some 65MYago), plus, they have a short breeding/gestation period and so generations pass by quickly, not like us humans with our 15-30-year generations. The benefit of the short gestation period is that if climatic or other conditions change rapidly, genetic traits for variations in size or characteristics will begin to naturally “select” the next round of survivors, based upon whether the characteristics they have are conducive to, or contrary to survival under the new conditions. It is also important to add that mutations that occur which help them to survive will be more quickly absorbed into the gene pool, so the end result is that they have a better chance of evolving toward a form most suited to their immediate environment. Those that lack the latest and coolest adaptations will decline and eventually disappear. And the faster your species can adapt to change, the better off you’ll be.
Bottom line, time to ease up on the throttle and grab the wheel before it’s over the cliff we go. I’m gonna start thinking about raisin’ some chickens to help keep up a fresh layer o’ poop on the garden.
Peace.
Insect would rule the world if not for the lack of leadership. They are content with maintaining the status quote. By not standing out and keeping the playing field level, ie( no winners so no losers.) they are happy just to serve the QUEEN. There are some of Us like this, For extra credit, Can you name the forms of Government that use these ideals?
Ah, but there is where you are incorrect. Leadership is something the ants, bees, and wasps do have, and it’s programmed in on an instinctual level. It’s built-in instead of coercive or greed-driven like ours. Remember, I’m talking about the social insects here, not just any old insects. When we’re gone, they’ll still be tirelessly communicating together and cooperating to achieve common goals. And the underlying scenario is that the mammals and large land animals would have already long since died out, so what’s left? Any guesses?
INCORRECT maybe, imprecise yes. sorry. What I should have said; The leadership is not intent on ruling the world. Their leadership’s intent is to care for it’s young. Some ants do conquer others, but for food or slaves. Not world supremacy. More likely Bacteria will end up being left in the end game.. Too start again, again, etc—–>>>inf There are hours of back and forth argument, but in the end Humans intent to destroy them selves is not common in other species. except Fire?
Wow, some good interaction here, Roadrunnerranch. Thanks!
I’m just speculating though. You are correct in pointing out that bacteria will be a strong contender, always was, and will continue to be. And it is true that self-awareness (which eventually leads to oppression of other species, as in animal husbandry and agriculture) and eventual aspiration toward world domination is a trait unique to humans. Excellent observations! 50 million years after the mammals are extinct, who knows how well the social insects will have adapted? I just think they’re most likely to predominate because they have already developed excellent survival strategies of organization, communication and leadership hierarchy. Can’t really think of any other critters that come close, though I’m interested to hear more peoples’ impressions. I’m not sure what you mean about fire…
there’s an old ecological dogma that given enough time and enough food, a population will pollute its environment beyond the carrying capacity of the environment…
aren’t we all glad to know that science has this figured out already?…
now if we could only reach the masses…
oh, wait…maybe the price of gas will help them understand…
Gas is just what we feed our toys. Wait ’til cars are a memory and the price of food goes the same way! Maybe then we’ll start to see some humans reach over to turn off the alarm clock.
hello hot for words i would like to ask where the word confused comes from and its proper origin
Hey TongueTwisler here
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Dear Marina, i was just wondering if you could find out why regular soldiers in the army are known at privates
Hope to hear a reply from you soon.
Kind regards TongueTwisler
Conversation between two blondes, overheard in a dance hall sometime in the fifties:-
1st Girl. I hear your new boyfriend is in the army.
2nd Girl. Yes, he’s in the King’s African Rifles.
1st Girl. Is that a good regiment?
2nd Girl. I think so. They have white officers with black privates.
1st Girl. OOOO! VERY exotic!
jokes are not found in the handbook, Bob…see the response below…
lol, where did you get that one from Bob
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cause it’s a real good one
The old ‘uns are the best, I keep telling myself as I get ever older.
hmmm sometimes the old ones are just old. (I liked above though)