Comments on: Phoney

By: leonard

leonard — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:34:48 +0000

hi back…back with a hi dean, john b. good.

By: leonard

leonard — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:34:34 +0000

soul smart

By: leonard

leonard — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:32:24 +0000

You have nuts? Quote
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” – Antoine de Saint Exupery …do you T.A.’s pick the HOTforWords quotes?

By: moshimoshi

moshimoshi — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:46:11 +0000

I love your love of words But I think you’ve jumped the gun with this one. Faux is the more likely precursor of phoney. ‘That’s terribly faux’ (as people indeed used to say) becomes ‘that’s terribly phoney’. The fawney-rig idea is colourful and memorable but it’s folk etymology and unlikely. When you think about it, it doesn’t make much sense that a cant word (criminal slang) would be widely known. Cant is meant to be code. It also doesn’t make sense that it would reappear in a new spelling in a new country over a century later with nothing in between. There’s no occurrence of fawney being used to mean fake in general, it only describes this type of fraud in a very limited setting. All the references to this etymology in dictionaries are prefaced with ‘possibly’. Generally if the etymology involves an entertaining story, someone’s just made it up. Faux on the other hand does simply mean fake.

By: James

James — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:26:25 +0000

HAHAHA Marina said fanny… tee-hee

By: leonard

leonard — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 04:08:57 +0000

Random lesson—i thought a person that talks to much on a telephone was a phoney?

By: lividemerald

lividemerald — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:47:32 +0000

A phoney thing happened on the way to the phorum…..

By: school_dean_hot4.u

school_dean_hot4.u — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:41:10 +0000

By: stokesjrj1

stokesjrj1 — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:06:25 +0000

poor attitude

By: runawayscott

runawayscott — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:29:26 +0000

Could you wear that outfit when you make me teacher’s pet?