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Word Association; Mind exercise
Topic Started: Jul 12 2014, 04:47 PM (3,033 Views)
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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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Hollered.
I am not sure but will check. :)
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Nov 29 2014, 05:55 PM
Didn't we already use that one very early on in the game? Maybe not.

Be-spoke.
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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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
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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
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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]

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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.

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