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Unusual Words and Their Uses

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02-26-2014, 02:20 AM

(02-26-2014, 02:05 AM)ChristopherSea Wrote:
(02-26-2014, 01:18 AM)milo Wrote:
(02-25-2014, 11:46 PM)ChristopherSea Wrote: Oh my, you can feel the gas pain in that word!

There was a time when antidisestablishmentarianism was the longest word that I knew, but it doesn't measure up to hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian!

Can anyone use these two in a fixed-meter poem?
pshaw

Octasyllabically
Christopher Sea challenged
all of us poets to
write formal verse.

Fitting ridiculous
opposite concepts like
anticontrarian -
ism , what's worse?
Ha ha, bravo!

points for guessing the form.
Double points for using the other in the same form.

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Unusual Words and Their Uses - by travis.reeder - 02-24-2014, 06:35 AM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by kingmicahde - 02-24-2014, 06:41 AM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by newsclippings - 02-24-2014, 06:48 AM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by travis.reeder - 02-24-2014, 07:11 AM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by Brownlie - 02-24-2014, 10:30 AM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by travis.reeder - 02-24-2014, 10:45 AM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by justcloudy - 02-25-2014, 03:29 AM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by ChristopherSea - 02-25-2014, 03:42 AM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by tectak - 02-25-2014, 04:02 AM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by travis.reeder - 02-25-2014, 06:42 AM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by milo - 02-25-2014, 07:50 AM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by kindofahippy - 02-24-2014, 12:50 PM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by Erthona - 02-25-2014, 07:54 AM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by rowens - 02-25-2014, 10:52 AM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by newsclippings - 02-25-2014, 11:08 AM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by ChristopherSea - 02-25-2014, 11:46 PM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by milo - 02-26-2014, 01:18 AM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by ChristopherSea - 02-26-2014, 02:05 AM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by milo - 02-26-2014, 02:20 AM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by ellajam - 02-26-2014, 01:06 AM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by shemthepenman - 02-26-2014, 02:53 AM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by ellajam - 02-26-2014, 02:57 AM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by Erthona - 02-26-2014, 03:27 AM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by milo - 02-26-2014, 03:29 AM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by ellajam - 02-26-2014, 03:43 AM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by ChristopherSea - 02-26-2014, 04:15 AM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by milo - 02-26-2014, 04:21 AM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by ellajam - 02-26-2014, 04:37 AM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by milo - 02-26-2014, 06:16 AM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by ChristopherSea - 02-26-2014, 07:49 PM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by milo - 02-26-2014, 10:56 PM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by ChristopherSea - 02-27-2014, 01:03 AM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by milo - 02-27-2014, 02:20 AM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by ChristopherSea - 02-27-2014, 02:26 AM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by milo - 02-27-2014, 02:44 AM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by ChristopherSea - 02-27-2014, 02:46 AM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by Erthona - 02-26-2014, 04:28 AM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by ChristopherSea - 02-26-2014, 04:31 AM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by ChristopherSea - 02-27-2014, 06:23 AM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by ChristopherSea - 03-03-2014, 10:23 PM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by milo - 03-03-2014, 11:26 PM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by ChristopherSea - 03-03-2014, 11:40 PM

RE: Unusual Words and Their Uses - by ChristopherSea - 03-17-2014, 01:39 AM

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