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• Yappy22 733 Posts

  Sun, Aug 7 2011 1:34 PM

  Circumlocution seems to be the style of this thread.  LOL.

• LizzieRossetti 1,545 Posts

  Sun, Aug 7 2011 2:44 PM

  Well Wgt Admin started it...

   

  Lizzie xx

• thebigeasy707 5,885 Posts

  Sun, Aug 7 2011 6:33 PM

  PeterHopper:

  thebigeasy707:

  Noun

  compromisation (plural compromisations)

  1. The act of compromising

   

  Indeed there is buddy...or at least there is in the English dictionary :)

  TBE

  Good for finding that TBE. 

   

  I wouldn't trust your wiki source though. No other dictionary can find it.

  Indeed, the OED the Oxford English Dictionary which describes itself as the definitive gouide to the English language states '

  No dictionary entries found for ‘compromisation’.

  http://photo.pds.org:5004/noresults?browseType=sortAlpha&noresults=true&page=1&pageSize=20&q=compromisation&scope=ENTRY&sort=entry&type=dictionarysearch

   

  The known nouns in common use would be 'compromise' or at a push 'compromisal'.

   

  The wiki entries offer only that supposed definition. In fact you may have used the word for only the second time in history after the person who invented that Wiki entry.

  Fairly interesting all the same.

   

   

   

  you won't find Knob Jockey in the OED either :)

  TBE

• Yappy22 733 Posts

  Sun, Aug 7 2011 6:46 PM

  LMAO..!!!!

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Sun, Aug 7 2011 6:50 PM

  

• navigater 1,319 Posts

  Sun, Aug 7 2011 6:55 PM

  there seams to be a bit of progressive politics at WGT

• PeterHopper 1,315 Posts

  Sun, Aug 7 2011 7:35 PM

  thebigeasy707:

  you won't find Knob Jockey in the OED either :)

  TBE

  Nope, but you will provide the usage to make it a future entry.

  Why be so rude? I wasn't being over serious questioning your use of a word that doesn't exist. Your wiki source peaked my interest a little.

   

• andyson 6,415 Posts

  Sun, Aug 7 2011 7:40 PM

  What was this thread about anyway??

  Oh yeah.

   

  FREE MIO!!

• PeterHopper 1,315 Posts

  Sun, Aug 7 2011 7:45 PM

  You were right TBE Oxford didn't have it.

  Your fav source Wiki has it.

  Noun

  knob jockey (plural knob jockeys)

  1. (UK, offensive, slang) A male homosexual.

  Regretably, your a tad wide of the mark on your analysis of me. I may be a lot of things, but I am not a male homosexual, however pleasant that lifestyle might be.

• PeterHopper 1,315 Posts

  Sun, Aug 7 2011 7:47 PM

  andyson:

  What was this thread about anyway??

  Oh yeah.

   

  FREE MIO!!

  It was a fair few years before they let Mandela out. I reckon Icon is looking to beat that.