Gruntled

[Gary the Enfield]

Ok, what about... Supercalifragilisticexpealidocuos? If one's merely califragilisticexpealidocous is one in a good place, or is one basically in limbo?

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious [sic] (you put an e after the p) is a nonsense word created by American songwriters - surely we are above that.

I'd say it matches our league position Monty, in so far as there's not much that is beneath us.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Ok, what about... Supercalifragilisticexpealidocuos? If one's merely califragilisticexpealidocous is one in a good place, or is one basically in limbo?

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious [sic] (you put an e after the p) is a nonsense word created by American songwriters - surely we are above that.

I'd say it matches our league position Monty, in so far as there's not much that is beneath us.

True. Reminds of the sign a few years ago at Liverpool's John Lennon airport. "Above us only the skies" underneath which some Red fan had spraypainted "Beneath us only West Ham".

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Okay ok.
Supercali...etc, discombobulate x both out, we don't want no Americanisms round hyere.

[Prufrock]

What about "establishmentarianism"? As in "disestablishmentarianism"? As in "antidisestablishmentarianism"?

[TANGODANCER]

(ab) scond
un( ravel)

[Lost Leopard Spot]

What about "establishmentarianism"? As in "disestablishmentarianism"? As in "antidisestablishmentarianism"?

There have been two concepts in my lifetime that go whoosh to me... Post-modernism, and Antidisestablishmentarianism. So no... whooshville.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

(ab) scond
un( ravel)

They have legs... will they run in the face of Montyology though?

[Gary the Enfield]

(con)verse
(con)vex
(con)cave

[Montreal Wanderer]

(ab) scond
un( ravel)

They have legs... will they run in the face of Montyology though?

Certainly not unravel as ravel is a perfectly good word meaning a knot or tangle (also wrote Bolero of course).

I think we can add abscond. From the Latin, the prefix Ab + the verb condo, condere - no equivalent in English.

[Montreal Wanderer]

(con)verse
(con)vex
(con)cave

Hmmm.

Converse is not made up of a prefix + verse - so no. Same with the other two. Anyway verse, vex and cave are good words.

[bobo the clown]

"Contradictory".

Now whilst some may wish to dic a tory I'm not sure that being in consistent is to be "dictory".



.... ^^^ & there's another "consistent". If you vary you aren't being "sistent".

[Prufrock]

That'll be because "con" (rather than "contra") doesn't indicate the opposite but "with". To be consistent means to stand with.

[bobo the clown]

Nobody likes a smart arse Pru.

Just saying.

[Gary the Enfield]

That'll be because "con" (rather than "contra") doesn't indicate the opposite but "with". To be consistent means to stand with.

Aren't cons the opposite of pros?

[Montreal Wanderer]

That'll be because "con" (rather than "contra") doesn't indicate the opposite but "with". To be consistent means to stand with.

Yes, but since 'con' is a prefix and 'sistent' is not an English word this must be admitted to Spotty's list

[Montreal Wanderer]

That'll be because "con" (rather than "contra") doesn't indicate the opposite but "with". To be consistent means to stand with.

Aren't cons the opposite of pros?

Indeed, but here pro means for and con is short for contra (against), not con (with).

[TANGODANCER]

That'll be because "con" (rather than "contra") doesn't indicate the opposite but "with". To be consistent means to stand with.

Aren't cons the opposite of pros?

Indeed, but here pro means for and con is short for contra (against), not con (with).

Cafe con leche, por favor....

[TANGODANCER]

(Ar)ticulate. And don't be throwing ani of your Hindi stuff at me.

[Gary the Enfield]

(Con)geal
(Con)glomerate
(Con)servative

[thebish]

What about "establishmentarianism"? As in "disestablishmentarianism"? As in "antidisestablishmentarianism"?

I doubt the first was ever a word as it is basically "how it always was in living memory" - the second arose in order to oppose the current state of affairs and the third arose to oppose those who opposed the current state of affairs...

I am a disestablishmentarian...

were the current state of affairs to be overturned - then establishmentarianism would begin to make sense as a word - and disestablishmentarianism would drop out of use, as would antidisestablishmentarianism - and a new word - antiestablishmentarianism could possibly appear to describe those who opposed those who opposed the current state of affairs...