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| Ashdaw | Nov 27 2014, 12:01 PM Post #301 |
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| Warren C. E. Austin | Nov 27 2014, 01:20 PM Post #302 |
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| Trevor | Nov 28 2014, 03:13 AM Post #304 |
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boating |
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| Ashdaw | Nov 28 2014, 03:15 AM Post #305 |
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Cruising :zombie: |
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| Warren C. E. Austin | Nov 28 2014, 12:22 PM Post #306 |
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| Ashdaw | Nov 28 2014, 01:29 PM Post #307 |
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| Trevor | Nov 29 2014, 08:45 AM Post #308 |
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| Warren C. E. Austin | Nov 29 2014, 09:02 AM Post #309 |
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Embroidery. |
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| Ashdaw | Nov 29 2014, 12:59 PM Post #310 |
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Haberdashery |
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| Warren C. E. Austin | Nov 29 2014, 05:55 PM Post #311 |
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Didn't we already use that one very early on in the game? Maybe not. Be-spoke. |
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| Ashdaw | Nov 30 2014, 05:16 AM Post #312 |
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Hollered. I am not sure but will check. :) |
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| Ashdaw | Nov 30 2014, 05:27 AM Post #313 |
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I checked Warren and Haberdashery hasn't been used before, there are a couple of repeats but that one hasn't been among them. :no Edited by Ashdaw, Nov 30 2014, 05:28 AM.
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| Warren C. E. Austin | Nov 30 2014, 06:07 AM Post #314 |
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Call. Hollered. Now this one really had me stumped; for the first time I actually had to refer to the dictionary to find the connection with the prior word "Be-spoke", and can't find any. Bespoke /bɪˈspoʊk/ Word Origin verb 1. a simple past tense and past participle of bespeak. adjective 2. British. (of clothes) made to individual order; custom-made: a bespoke jacket. making or selling such clothes: a bespoke tailor. 3. Older Use. engaged to be married; spoken for. Origin 1745-1755 1745-55 for def 2 bespeak /bɪˈspik/ verb (used with object), bespoke or (Archaic) bespake; bespoken or bespoke; bespeaking. 1. to ask for in advance: to bespeak the reader's patience. 2. to reserve beforehand; engage in advance; make arrangements for: to bespeak a seat in a theater. 3. Literary. to speak to; address. 4. to show; indicate: This bespeaks a kindly heart. 5. Obsolete. to foretell; forebode. Origin before 900; Middle English bespeken, Old English besprecan. See be-, speak Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2014. Cite This Source British Dictionary definitions for bespoke bespeak /bɪˈspiːk/ verb (transitive) -speaks, -speaking, -spoke, -spoken, -spoke 1. to engage, request, or ask for in advance 2. to indicate or suggest: this act bespeaks kindness 3. (poetic) to speak to; address 4. (archaic) to foretell bespoke /bɪˈspəʊk/ adjective (mainly Brit) 1. (esp of clothing or a website, computer program, etc) made to the customer's specifications 2. making or selling such clothing, websites, etc: a bespoke tailor, a bespoke web designer Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Cite This Source Word Origin and History for bespoke bespoke adj. "custom or custom-made, made to order," of goods, as distinguished from ready-made, 1755, the same sense found earlier in bespoken (c.1600), past participle of bespeak, in a sense of "to speak for, to arrange beforehand," a sense attested in bespeak from 1580s. Now usually of tailored suits. bespeak v. Old English besprecan "speak about, speak against, complain," from be- + sprecan "to speak" (see speak ). A common Germanic compound (cf. Old Saxon bisprecan, Dutch bespreken, Old High German bisprehhan, German besprechen); originally "to call out," it evolved a wide range of meaning in English, including "speak up," "oppose," "request," "discuss, "arrange," and "to order (goods)" (1580s). The connection of the senses is very loose; some of them appear to have arisen quite independently of each other from different applications of BE- pref. [OED] Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper Cite This Source |
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| Ashdaw | Nov 30 2014, 11:04 PM Post #315 |
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The word bespoke is derived from the verb to bespeak, to "speak for something" I guess I used the wrong word thinking it was akin to bespeak. Phoned |
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