<![CDATA[Words : Weblog]]> Elgg http://scribble.scran.ac.uk/words/weblog/ <![CDATA[Palindromes]]> http://scribble.scran.ac.uk/words/weblog/571.html http://scribble.scran.ac.uk/words/weblog/571.html Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:54:13 GMT TATTARRATTAT is one of the longest palindromes in the OED.  It was used by James Joyce in Ulysses (1922): "I knew his tattarrattat at the door."]]> <![CDATA[Furth]]> http://scribble.scran.ac.uk/words/weblog/395.html http://scribble.scran.ac.uk/words/weblog/395.html Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:41:09 GMT This is a real beezer.  It used to feature a lot in Inspectorate [HMIe] talk in Scotland where they would discuss "educational practices furth of Scotland".  You can still see it used on university web sites and in specialist areas like "Scottish Heraldry Furth of Scotland".

You'll need a dictionary like Chambers to see the meaning.  It means beyond or outside 

]]> <![CDATA[Anent]]> http://scribble.scran.ac.uk/words/weblog/393.html http://scribble.scran.ac.uk/words/weblog/393.html Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:32:41 GMT Believe it or not, this was in the Times Ed Supplement last week.  It's listed as archaic or Scots and is a preposition meaning Concerning or About. I had to look it up.  It was in a letter to the Editor.

Anent the email you sent me last week...

]]> <![CDATA[Adumbrate]]> http://scribble.scran.ac.uk/words/weblog/387.html http://scribble.scran.ac.uk/words/weblog/387.html Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:30:49 GMT I'll let you all guess what this means - no sneaky looking up dictionaries. The Latin scholars will probably get near the modern day meaning.

]]> <![CDATA[Honorificabilitudinitatibus]]> http://scribble.scran.ac.uk/words/weblog/329.html http://scribble.scran.ac.uk/words/weblog/329.html Tue, 20 Feb 2007 12:57:11 GMT This is the longest word used by Shakespeare. It appears in Love's Labour's Lost, Act V, Scene I. Means honourableness apparently.

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