POLL: TOP 100 ENGLISH LANGUAGE WORDS CHOSEN BY ILE

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we should do an ilx poll top 100 words, like gear/stevem's top 100 stylee

-- ken c (pykachu10...), November 25th, 2004. (ken c) (later)

As some of you know, both ILM and ILC have recently had polls, voting for the best records of the nineties and the naughties, and the best comics of all time. Now's the time for ILE's own poll, and, by Ken's suggestion, I've chosen the one thing that surely interests us all: words. The poll will proceed as follows: every ILXor gets to nominate the maximum amount of four English-language words (you can nominate less if you want to) on this thread. The words should be ones you like, on any basis whatever - it could be the meaning of the word, how it sounds, how it looks like, or some other reason. If someone has already nominated your favourite word, choose another one. The nominations will close next Thursday, that is, the 2nd of December. After that I will post the full list of nominees, and instructions on how to vote for them.

Let the nominations begin!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 25 November 2004 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Trousers

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 25 November 2004 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Is Jumanji a word? If not, I guess I'll nominate bumblebee to start with. I'll think of others later. So...

2. Bumblebee

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 25 November 2004 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd say you can nominate any word you feel is a real one. If people think it isn't, they wont vote for it.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 25 November 2004 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, but wouldn't that mean 'teh' or 'pwned' would win?

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 25 November 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll expect you to be honest and not vote for words you clearly know aren't real.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 25 November 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

3. Tubular

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 25 November 2004 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

By now I should point out that we can and should have more than 100 nominations, so even if you want to order the nominations numerically (you don't necessarily have to), they should continue beyond 100.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 25 November 2004 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

4. Underpants

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 25 November 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

5. Verisimilitude
5. Neophyte

― He's allergic to lettuce (Mark C), Thursday, 25 November 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

6. nincompoop
6. bastardisation
6. zither

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Good, good keep 'em rolling! Also, since English isn't my native tongue, would you please be kind enough to correct misspellings if you notice some.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, when the voting starts, I hope at least some of you can write comments on your favourite words.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

9. Shag. It means so much to me and my true love.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

10 Zoetrope
11 oblique
12 solifluction

― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

13. tittybiscuit

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

bollocks

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

15. Spermatozoon.
16. Dastardly.
17. Lupine.
18. Triskadekaphobia.

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

19. genuflect

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Have we had pussy yet?

― He's allergic to lettuce (Mark C), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

21. funkadelic

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Have we had pussy yet?

No, you want to nominate it?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

21. hullabaloo
22. tarradiddle
23. troglodyte

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

24. palimpsest
25. fugue
26. trump

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

perfidy
asymptote
copasetic

hi archel i'm back

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

27. Flaps

― He's allergic to lettuce (Mark C), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

31. Miscreant
32. Rennaissance

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Begs2Differ, I said four words maximum, please no cheating! I'll turn a blind eye to it for now and accept all your nominations, but don't anyone try this again!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi Matt!

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

27. Paladin
28. Clerihew
29. Meal
30. Funk

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

that was not a nomination

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

so does mark still want pussy now he has the flaps?

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

renaissance

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

poppycock

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Renaissance already nominated.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

injuns

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Renaissance makes a comeback!

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

RJG - I nominated renaissance already, though I spelled it wrong: I don't know if you're correcting my spelling or nominating not realising I had nomonated it. Or something.]

(x-post)

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

33. parallax
34. manatee
35. astringent
36. cake

Only 4 is no good at all. Within minutes I'll regret each of these.

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Is wangdangdoodle one word or three?

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

* Breakfast
* Holiday
* Fluent
* Sissy

― Hanna (Hanna), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll stick my head over the fence and nominate:

Plinth

wonderful word, such beautiful tongue action.
Go on, say it out loud and you'll see what I mean!

Cal
PS - Hello. Miss yous

― Calumn, Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Within minutes I'll regret each of these.

I'm saving one of my nominations in case I become inspired in the future. That way I'll have one I might not regret...

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

ok! since you're here cal

37. dobber

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

41. With. It has resonance and clarity. Plus you are never alone, with.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

ubiquitous
obsequious

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Only 4 is no good at all. Within minutes I'll regret each of these.

It's necessary to limit the amount of nominations so the list you choose your votes from won't be impractically long. Think hard before you nominate!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Cleave.

It has two meanings, which are the opposite of each other.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I was correcting, yeah.

I thought we were supposed to.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, you're supposed to. I'm sorry, I didn't realize it was a correction.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

probably helps to make it clear that a correction is a correction i guess.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Letters of the alphabet yet without a nomination: E, J, K, Q, R, W, X, Y.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I know I should have waited but they were in my head and I couldn't do anything about it. Now I'll have to create a new identity for every new 4 words I think of.

(I won't do that really, you know.)

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Shandy.
Bummer.
Haven.
Rheostat.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

(#?) Mutha

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Mugwump

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Mutha is okay Tiit, I'm not going to discriminate slang words, because it's hard to say what is slang and what isn't anyway.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 25 November 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Darling

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 25 November 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Why

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 25 November 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I count 54 now.

55. blaspheme

― Laura H. (laurah), Thursday, 25 November 2004 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

54 is a good result for four hours, keep 'em nominations coming!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 25 November 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

56. antidisestablishmentarianism
57. genuflect
58. yttrium
59. cock

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 25 November 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

60. keep

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 25 November 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

cobb-knobbler

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 25 November 2004 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

61 Piffle

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Thursday, 25 November 2004 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

i already did 'genuflect'!

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 25 November 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess that explains why I thought of that word!
57. ~~genuflect~~ proletariat

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 25 November 2004 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1358930,00.html

― nikolaus winter (bokkengro), Thursday, 25 November 2004 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

62. PONY

― nabiscothingy (nory), Thursday, 25 November 2004 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

63. skullduggery

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 25 November 2004 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

64. succulent
65. villainy
66. reverberate

― gem (trisk), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

67. calibrate
68. outcrop
69. wash

― Ian John50n (orion), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:42 (twenty-one years ago)

70. ghosts (is english unique in making the "sts" sound at the end of that word and others like it?)

― Ian John50n (orion), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:43 (twenty-one years ago)

do you mean only in plurals? because the 'st' sound is pretty common in french i think

― gem (trisk), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)

71. corporeal
72. mellifluous
73. spackle

― Laura H. (laurah), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:48 (twenty-one years ago)

ghosts/lusts/trusts/feasts... any words with that sound at the end. i like that sound.

― Ian John50n (orion), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:49 (twenty-one years ago)

there is a name for that sort of hissing sound isn't there, sibyllic or something? you're right, it's a cool sound.

― gem (trisk), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

aardvark(?)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 26 November 2004 02:06 (twenty-one years ago)

tits

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 26 November 2004 02:25 (twenty-one years ago)

ostensibly
hyacinth
anymore

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Friday, 26 November 2004 02:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Twat.

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Friday, 26 November 2004 02:30 (twenty-one years ago)

bupkis

― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Friday, 26 November 2004 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

nevertheless
eureka
fuck
banana

― a banana (alanbanana), Friday, 26 November 2004 03:17 (twenty-one years ago)

i kinda like the word 'boner'

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Friday, 26 November 2004 03:30 (twenty-one years ago)

snush.

― Snush = Snow + Slush (x Jeremy), Friday, 26 November 2004 03:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, I was just going to enter 'snush.' Seconded.

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 26 November 2004 04:27 (twenty-one years ago)

augur

― tremendoid, Friday, 26 November 2004 07:53 (twenty-one years ago)

parallax

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 26 November 2004 09:03 (twenty-one years ago)

88. parallelogram
89. combust
90. misanthrope

And I'm saving one.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Friday, 26 November 2004 09:13 (twenty-one years ago)

lascivious

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 26 November 2004 09:16 (twenty-one years ago)

-temerarious
-squirrel
-heresiarch
-refrigerator

― emil.y (emil.y), Friday, 26 November 2004 10:35 (twenty-one years ago)

spiggot

(saving other three for now)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 26 November 2004 10:41 (twenty-one years ago)

corrosive
dune
mischief

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 26 November 2004 10:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Oi Carsmile, you stole my word from last night! And it only has one 'g'.

splenetic
meretricious
phrenology
portmanteau

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 26 November 2004 10:47 (twenty-one years ago)

i said it should go on the list though, and you agreed ;P

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 26 November 2004 10:49 (twenty-one years ago)

So it's "spigot" with one "g"?

Colin, "parallax" has already been nominated.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 26 November 2004 10:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, here's the list of nominations so far, alpabetically ordered. I've added Mark C's pussy and Caitlin's boner there, though I wasn't sure whether they wanted them put in. If you want me to remove them, please say so.

aardvark
antidisestablishmentarianism
anymore
astringent
asymptote
augur

banana
bastardisation
blaspheme
bollocks
boner
breakfast
bupkis
bumblebee
bummer

cake
calibrate
cleave
clerihew
cobb-knobbler
cock
combust
copasetic
corporeal
corrosive

darling
dastardly
dune

eureka

flaps
fluent
fuck
fugue
funk
funkadelic

genuflect
ghosts

haven
heresiarch
holiday
hullabaloo
hyacinth

injuns

keep

lascivious
lupine

manatee
meal
mellifluous
meretricious
misanthrope
mischief
miscreant
mugwump
mutha

neophyte
nevertheless
nincompoop

oblique
ostensibly
outcrop

paladin
palimpsest
parallax
parallelogram
perfidy
phrenology
piffle
plinth
pony
poppycock
portmanteau
proletariat
pussy

refrigerator
renaissance
reverberate
rheostat

shag
shandy
sissy
skullduggery
snush
solifluction
spackle
spermatozoon
spigot
splenetic
squirrel
succulent

tarradiddle
temerarious
tits
tittybiscuit
triskadekaphobia
troglodyte
trousers
trump
tubular
twat

underpants

verisimilitude
villainy

wash
why

yttrium

zither
zoetrope

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 26 November 2004 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Correction: copacetic is more generally used than the 's' version. And it's a rubbish stoner word anyway.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 26 November 2004 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, I'll make the correction, if it's okay for whoever nominated it. What does it mean, by the way?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 26 November 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Schtuck.

― 3underscore (___), Friday, 26 November 2004 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Liz:x -- "copacetic" is rubbish and stoner now perhaps, but undeniably classick when invented/popularized by Cab Calloway and other old stoners in the 1920s.

feel bad for old slang
turned corny by overuse --
it was SO HIP once

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Friday, 26 November 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

spanish people pronounce it "copathetic"

[syn: copasetic, copesetic, copesettic]

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 26 November 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

pendulous
profligate
concatenate

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Saturday, 27 November 2004 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

juxtaposition

― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Saturday, 27 November 2004 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

"spanish people pronounce it "copathetic""

So does Biz Markie. Bitin'ass commies.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Saturday, 27 November 2004 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

buttnaked
dip
wet
dust
p dog
sherm

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Saturday, 27 November 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

river
cozy
twilight
love

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 27 November 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

usurper
analgesic

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Saturday, 27 November 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

quack
xylophonist
differentiation
crikey

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Saturday, 27 November 2004 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

hob
bereft
slobbery
fulsome

― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, 27 November 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I said 'cleave' earlier, so my other three are:

sestina
cunt
masquerade

― The Lex (The Lex), Saturday, 27 November 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

concomitant
trepidatious (even though it may not be a word)

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Saturday, 27 November 2004 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

(I like teeny's nominations)

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Saturday, 27 November 2004 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

ilk
opal
glamour
mosaic

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Saturday, 27 November 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

oh I forgot 'star' and 'dream'! oh well.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 27 November 2004 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

1. bass
2. spigot
3. glandular
4. lugubrious

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 27 November 2004 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

which word spelled "bass" do you mean?

― Maxwell von Bismarck (maxwell von bismarck), Saturday, 27 November 2004 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

as in "how low can you go, Death Row" &c.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 27 November 2004 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

pathogen
clitoral
aneurism
bile
cruel

― Snush (x Jeremy), Saturday, 27 November 2004 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

you just get four, i think

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 27 November 2004 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

pathogen
~~clitoral~~
aneurism
bile
cruel

― Snush (x Jeremy), Saturday, 27 November 2004 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

70. ghosts (is english unique in making the "sts" sound at the end of that word and others like it?)
-- Ian John50n

In that sound, you can hear the roots of hydraulic piston technology.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Saturday, 27 November 2004 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

kennelmaid

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 27 November 2004 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Roxy, "spigot" has already been nominated.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 29 November 2004 09:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I've began to think, maybe a top 100 is a bit too ambitious. We could settle for a top 50 only, it depends on how many nominations I get and how many words will actually receive more than one vote.

Anyway, all of you who've yet to come up with nominations, please do so, it isn't hard. If someone suspects this is all a joke, it isn't, I'm really gonna arrange the vote. The deadline for the nominations is Thursday this week.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 29 November 2004 09:59 (twenty-one years ago)

how many words have we had so far?

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 29 November 2004 11:19 (twenty-one years ago)

aplomb

More to come.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 29 November 2004 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

The current word count is 150, which looks good enough, since there's still four more nomination days left.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 29 November 2004 12:16 (twenty-one years ago)

ok, replace spigot with blast.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 29 November 2004 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

xenomorph
discombobulated
residue
arouse

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 29 November 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

minge
fuckdog
nibble
nighttime

― d.arraghmac, Monday, 29 November 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Any more, y'all?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

'mordor' spoken by vincent price.

― d.arraghmac, Tuesday, 30 November 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

have you nominated yet, tuomas?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Take out 'quack' and replace with 'quandary', thanks.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I nominate 'tossycock'

― alix (alix), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

flop

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I've had all mine, but I'd like "pus" and "fob" as well.

And the names of Steve Martin and his love interest in "The Man with 2 Brains" - a vague approximation might be Hruhfruhrr and Uh-uhmelmahay?

― Jesus Christ, Paraplegic (Mark C), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Hfuhruhurr and Uumellmahaye according to IMDB.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Tumescence

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

have you nominated yet, tuomas?

I thought that as the facilitator of the poll I would be disqualified to nominate or vote... Did Gear or Stevem vote in their ILM polls?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, maybe I'll try to come with up some nominations before Thursday.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Snǿw
Mööse
Såntå Clåǔs

― Jesus Christ, Paraplegic (Mark C), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

i thought santa was from antartica rather than finland

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Tintinnabulation

― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 30 November 2004 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

chump
lummox
portal
crumble

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

SHAZAM!
SHABOOM!
KAPOW!
HURRAH!

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG I forgot YEEEEEEEEEEEE-HAW!

Will someone nomiate that??

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm also disappointed that nobody has nominated mw-hahaha-hahaha!

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

yee-haw
beer
crypt (can this include the words "apocryphal" and "cryptic"?)
shit

― Maxwell von Bismarck (maxwell von bismarck), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 02:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd like to change 'portal' to 'haver'. Not that anyone is going to vote for either.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 04:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, I changed it.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 09:58 (twenty-one years ago)

it's all about 'bamboozle'

― twat, Wednesday, 1 December 2004 10:06 (twenty-one years ago)

dangle
fritter
pensive
fornicate

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I am worrying about a shazam/shaboom vote split.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

plethora
dilettante
schmuck
zoom

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

insouciance

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

antimacassar
delve
indubitably
maelstrom

― Richard Jones (scarne), Thursday, 2 December 2004 00:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, remember that this is the last day to nominate! I won't be collecting the nominations until tomorrow morning, so all you Americans will have the chance to vote until midnight as well. I'll put up the full list of nominations and voting instructions tomorrow.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 2 December 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

four weeks pass...

pony (in case a word was nominated twice)

― youn, Thursday, 30 December 2004 03:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, dear, I completely forgot this, since ILX went down a day or two after my last post. I'll post a voting thread as soon as I have the time.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 30 December 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

holster

― youn, Saturday, 8 January 2005 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

holy crap people,
brouhaha

― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Saturday, 8 January 2005 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Antimacassar, what a lovely word. I'm sure my gran had one.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Saturday, 8 January 2005 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

-soft
-like
-brine
-wax

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 8 January 2005 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

we are in terrible suspense! come back tuomas!

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 13 February 2005 03:10 (twenty-one years ago)

hoi-polloi should have been on there.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 13 February 2005 03:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I could run this poll if tuomas doesn't want to?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 13 February 2005 05:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmm, I thought ILX had grown weary of all the polls, but sure I can still arrange this. Just hold on a moment...

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 13 February 2005 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

Were the results ever posted?

― The Brainwasher, Saturday, 19 May 2007 00:22 (nineteen years ago)

tricotilamania

― negotiable, Saturday, 19 May 2007 00:32 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm, I thought ILX had grown weary of all the polls, but sure I can still arrange this. Just hold on a moment...

-- Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, February 13, 2005 3:59 PM (2 years ago)

heh.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 19 May 2007 02:13 (nineteen years ago)

thirteen years pass...

Recidivist

― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 14:13 (five years ago)

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