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Some randomness from Talia:
Interesting words from the Psion dictionary:
Lollapalooza.
Logorrhoea - presumably verbal diorrhoea.
Loyola, Luanda, Lymphoma.Lamella, Lamina, Latifundia.
Leukaemia.
Lhasa.
Liana - a jungle creeper, living in the canopy between the trees, never touching ground - or only vaguly associated with it.
Lufthansa - a beautiful name for an airline.
Lusaka, Lemma, Loa.
Mangel-wurzel.
Marmoreal, Maturational, Kinshasa.
Kasha, Neurasthenia, Oxymora.
Pachysandra, Pamplona, Panatela.
Papilla, Parenchyma, Paronomasia.
Pyorrhoea, Purina, Proscenia.
Propylaea, Prolegomena, Pretoria.
Praia, Ponderosam, Phylloxera.
Philodendra, Petrofina, Quokka.
Retsina, Sacraria, Salamanca, Samna, Sapodilla, Susquehanna...
Tuatara. Tularaemia. Trichina. Tirana. Tegucigalpa. Uraemia.
Yenta.
Zeugma.
And all these end in 'a'. (or l, or i, but just a few.)
Falafel... Folderol...
dashiki, kabuki, kaki, saluki, sukiyaki, teriyaki.
caravanserai. I'm sure I've seen this one before...
Anyway, that's quite enough.
((Anyone telling me what some of these mean would be welcomed :-) ))
Interesting words from the Psion dictionary:
Lollapalooza.
Logorrhoea - presumably verbal diorrhoea.
Loyola, Luanda, Lymphoma.Lamella, Lamina, Latifundia.
Leukaemia.
Lhasa.
Liana - a jungle creeper, living in the canopy between the trees, never touching ground - or only vaguly associated with it.
Lufthansa - a beautiful name for an airline.
Lusaka, Lemma, Loa.
Mangel-wurzel.
Marmoreal, Maturational, Kinshasa.
Kasha, Neurasthenia, Oxymora.
Pachysandra, Pamplona, Panatela.
Papilla, Parenchyma, Paronomasia.
Pyorrhoea, Purina, Proscenia.
Propylaea, Prolegomena, Pretoria.
Praia, Ponderosam, Phylloxera.
Philodendra, Petrofina, Quokka.
Retsina, Sacraria, Salamanca, Samna, Sapodilla, Susquehanna...
Tuatara. Tularaemia. Trichina. Tirana. Tegucigalpa. Uraemia.
Yenta.
Zeugma.
And all these end in 'a'. (or l, or i, but just a few.)
Falafel... Folderol...
dashiki, kabuki, kaki, saluki, sukiyaki, teriyaki.
caravanserai. I'm sure I've seen this one before...
Anyway, that's quite enough.
((Anyone telling me what some of these mean would be welcomed :-) ))
Thanks!
Date: 2001-11-30 03:02 am (UTC)From:It seems that quite a lot of these pretty words are used for 'nasty' icky medical things tho... it almost seems a waste.
Also, they all seem pretty obscure things to put in the Psion dictionary, which claims to be a compact set of words you may have to add technical terms to... I wonder who they got / what source they used to compile it?