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I occasionally have to visit Merriam-Webster's website to check definitions and spellling and they have this embedded video feature where associate editors offer little grammatical/etymological tidbits and well... try as I might I just can't resist the sexy siren song of their logophiliac, nerd girl ways.





Sorry for the gender bias here with the poll question, but Pete just isn't very hot:

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You may have blown it with both of them, when they see how you spell Merriam.

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And Websters is written without an apostrophe, indicating that there are multiple Websters, rather than that Merriam-Webster, as an organisation, is in posession of these assembled hotties. Webster's. That's how it should be. Shocking stuff.

You should read the site, brainpanhandler, instead of just looking at the pretty ladies and the shiny plastic man.

My favourite of the three is Amanda Knox's big sister, in the middle there.

If its correct English your after, forget Mirriom Wabsters and ask a Russian:

JackRiddler wrote:.

You may have blown it with both of them, when they see how you spell Merriam.

That's a party hat and not a dunce hat you know. Maybe that happened because I was subconsciously expressing that I wanna marry 'em.

ahab wrote:And Websters is written without an apostrophe, indicating that there are multiple Websters, rather than that Merriam-Webster, as an organisation, is in posession of these assembled hotties. Webster's. That's how it should be. Shocking stuff.

You forgot to address my neologism, logophiliac. It's not even in the dictionary.

brainpanhandler wrote:

JackRiddler wrote:.
You forgot to address my neologism, logophiliac. It's not even in the dictionary.

It just keeps getting worse. To be honest, I'm disgusted. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?

I remember back in primary school, when I was the best speller there had ever been on earth. My vocabulary used to make teachers weep. I had it all layed out ahead of me then - the world was my oyster. The money, the power, the girls, the booze - it was all mine for the taking.

I took the booze.

I voted with Emily, she has a sexy confidence, and she was down in the polls. But my mind belongs to Marina Orlova!

MacCruiskeen wrote:If its correct English your after, forget Mirriom Wabsters and ask a Russian:

Peter's piece about Latin sneaking into English is fascinating, I'm glad I watched it (I was at first going to skip over Pete), it's totally synchronous with my current reading. (I love it when that happens.)

Until I 'got internet' in '96 I used a 1947 Merriam-Webster "Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary" handed down by my dad. I had newer dictionaries but that one was my favorite. I still have it, can reach it from here, but seldom if ever use it. Now there are websites that show entries from several different online dictionaries, which is very cool.

For Scrabble™ I use an Official Scrabble™ Dictionary, it's slightly old but that's okay because I completely disagree with the new "official" rule allowing proper nouns. To me, that rule is just one more sign that this world is going to Hell in a handbasket.

I like Kory's neck. She looks like a more robust female; Emily seems a bit frail for me. But ... I love them all (the females, that is).

I like physically strong women.

Elvis wrote:For Scrabble™ I use an Official Scrabble™ Dictionary, it's slightly old but that's okay because I completely disagree with the new "official" rule allowing proper nouns. To me, that rule is just one more sign that this world is going to Hell in a handbasket.

At the risk of turning this small section of the web into an excerpt from The Telegraph's letters page, I totally concur. It's like allowing spitting and eye-gouging into chess. Just imagine getting beat by some arsehole triumphantly laying down the word "Enron." Or "BP"! There would be blood.

Mr. Butts must be spinning in his grave.

AhabsOtherLeg wrote:

Elvis wrote:I completely disagree with the new "official" rule allowing proper nouns. To me, that rule is just one more sign that this world is going to Hell in a handbasket.

At the risk of turning this small section of the web into an excerpt from The Telegraph's letters page, I totally concur. It's like allowing spitting and eye-gouging into chess. Just imagine getting beat by some arsehole triumphantly laying down the word "Enron." Or "BP"! There would be blood.

I knew you were a good fellow. It's just Wrong. It's not Scrabble, whatever it is; they can call it "Stupid Game" or "Proper Noun Word Mix-up" or whatever they like, but it's not Scrabble, not really.

--an angry reader

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But I meant it as a party hat! Really! As in, partying cos I funnied very dry, and now the Merriam girls think am clever and the one like maryann gonna marryam me!

I like that... naughty haughties.

I think this might be Kory's best look, although she should probably never wear that color if her hair is the same color.



She's so perky.

Emily needs to part her hair on the other side. Somehow it just doesn't look right parted on the right.

brainpanhandler wrote:I like that... naughty haughties.

I think this might be Kory's best look, although she should probably never wear that color if her hair is the same color.

Her make-up is way better in that one, overall, although they're still doing it too much by-the-book and not enough by-the-Kory. But she should definitely always wear a nice, warm lipstick that's two shades darker than natural color in a subtle sort of a way when on camera. Her mouth probably looks lovely in person, but her upper lip photographs thin.

Also, I'd like to see her try wearing blouses with soft collars and/or rounded necklines when she has her hair up, if she's comfortable in them. And if she's getting her eyebrows shaped (which I think she must be in view of their shape), she should stop lining them up with the inner corners of her eyes and start lining them up just a skosh outside the bridge of her nose.

Because you're right. She is perky. But you can sort of see that there's a piquant little touch of devilry in there, especially when she arches her (presumed to be poor, brutalized) eyebrow. Basically, she's got a really cute naturally-pointy-like-Kim-Novak-in-Bed-Book-and-Candle thing going on there. Shame to just let it go to waste. And she can wear any color but green, afaic. If they change the lighting, I may reconsider. But as things stand, green is just totally out of the question.

Emily needs to part her hair on the other side. Somehow it just doesn't look right parted on the right.

I think the main problem is just that she's uncomfortable. So nothing looks quite right.

But entirely apart from that, she absolutely, non-negotiably has just got to lose those glasses. Or at the very least, those frames. Because they're just destroying her, and she's really very pretty. Not that you can see it. But she is. In a more regularly pretty way than Kory is, even. Perfect oval face, lovely browbone and chin, long neck, nice full mouth and (from what little can be safely inferred) pretty, nicely spaced almond-shaped eyes.

I mean, I don't find any of them hot, personally speaking. But look:





Try imagining that expression on her face in another context, for another reason (without the glasses), and I think you'll see what I mean. She's got it going on, potentially. It's just hidden.

And that kind of makes me want justice for Emily. So I say: Contacts, lip gloss, a little brow-liner, no turtlenecks until she's more relaxed and animated on camera, and lots of muted dusky colors in the rose/brown/mauve range when it comes to wardrobe. Velvets and soft wools when possible.

Plus, it goes without saying that both of them should be wearing eyeliner, too, for the love of all that's holy. Because they're on TV, that's why. I mean, what part of that is Merriam-Webster failing to grasp?

I'm skipping Pete, but I mean no offense to him or anything like that. It's just easier to style women.