Unusual talentsB3tans! Can you hum with your tongue? (Your Ginger Fuhrer can and he once demonstrated this to a producer on Blockbusters on the hope of getting on TV) Maybe you can bend your thumb in a really horrid way that makes it look broken. (Your Ginger Fuhrer's other special talent) What can you do? Extra points if you fancy demonstrating this with the odd pic or youtube vid.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 18 Nov 2010, 14:28)
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etymology is the same for both... just took different roads to get to EnglishSherbet:
from Turkish şerbet, Persian šerbet, from Arabic šarba ‘drink,’ from šariba ‘to drink.’
Sorbet is taking two extra steps:
French (sorbet) from Italian sorbetto.
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Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 13:18,
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Etymologically of descend and decease is the same (caedere)but they have entirely different meanings today.
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shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 15:47,
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i think my favouriteis cleft, two different etymologies for two words with near opposite meanings but the same spelling/pronunciation.
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Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 16:16,
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are you not thinking of 'cleave', rather than 'cleft'? Cleft is, I think, the past participle only for the 'splitting' one - the 'adhering' one is 'cleaved'. Other autoantonyms include the rather mundane 'fast'...
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Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 9:45,
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