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Ah, remember in your early teens when you were head-over-heels gaga over someone? When you were in “LUV”? Not love, but luv? Well, with Valentine’s Day right around the corner, we thought we’d share the luv by keeping this edition of the WGC short and (definitely) sweet. How easy is it to win a T-shirt? This easy:
All we ask you to do is comment with a word – a single word – that includes the letter sequence “LUV”. And if your word matches the one we’ve already selected, you’ll win the mental_floss T-shirt of your choice. Easy, huh? There are at least a couple hundred words to choose from, so I can’t imagine you’ll run short.
One entry per person, please. The correct word is sealed in our time-locked vault which cannot be opened in advance. (Okay, it’s on a Post-It note stuck to the side of our refrigerator.) We’ll reveal the answer (and the winner’s name) on Saturday, February 16, just before the next WGC goes live. So go on. Grab that dictionary and show us some LUV!
P.S. No, the word is not “antediluvian.” Sorry!
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effluvia
posted by Beth Rudowske on 2-9-2008 at 9:57 am
Alluvial
posted by Jack da Bomb on 2-9-2008 at 10:00 am
pluvial
posted by matthew393 on 2-9-2008 at 10:08 am
pluvial
posted by Jake Le Master on 2-9-2008 at 10:10 am
Fluvial
posted by Amy on 2-9-2008 at 10:15 am
helluva
posted by mor on 2-9-2008 at 10:15 am
or Colluvial
posted by Amy on 2-9-2008 at 10:15 am
alluvial
posted by erm on 2-9-2008 at 10:16 am
eluvial
posted by spix14 on 2-9-2008 at 10:18 am
illuvial
posted by kate on 2-9-2008 at 10:22 am
Fluviograph
posted by Empty Jay on 2-9-2008 at 10:27 am
antediluvian
posted by lauraebk on 2-9-2008 at 10:28 am
eluvium
posted by Brian on 2-9-2008 at 10:29 am
Pluvian
posted by Allison on 2-9-2008 at 10:30 am
luvely
posted by Wanda on 2-9-2008 at 10:30 am
Diluvium
posted by David on 2-9-2008 at 10:37 am
interfluvial
posted by katie on 2-9-2008 at 10:41 am
alluvium
posted by William on 2-9-2008 at 11:09 am
Interfluve
posted by Chris on 2-9-2008 at 11:15 am
pluvious
posted by Cat on 2-9-2008 at 11:19 am
Fluvarium, n. a freshwater interpretation centre in St John’s, Newfoundland, Canada.
posted by K on 2-9-2008 at 11:25 am
pluviose
posted by Rachel on 2-9-2008 at 11:26 am
effluvium
posted by Iain on 2-9-2008 at 11:33 am
ingluvial
posted by Marx on 2-9-2008 at 11:42 am
luvaridae
posted by Steve on 2-9-2008 at 12:03 pm
Fluvioglacial
posted by AMR on 2-9-2008 at 12:07 pm
Colluvies
posted by Jess on 2-9-2008 at 12:09 pm
pluviometer
posted by Mary Ann on 2-9-2008 at 12:19 pm
postdiluvian :p
posted by septer on 2-9-2008 at 12:25 pm
cheluviation
posted by Susan on 2-9-2008 at 1:03 pm
My favorite term for bad breath:
effluvium
posted by Dave G on 2-9-2008 at 2:24 pm
illuvium
posted by Mandy on 2-9-2008 at 2:47 pm
vectopluviometer
posted by Lisa on 2-9-2008 at 2:53 pm
Helluva
As in, “Mental Floss is one helluva good site!”
posted by Elphaba on 2-9-2008 at 3:22 pm
eluviate
posted by jenny on 2-9-2008 at 3:51 pm
pediluvy
posted by Bess on 2-9-2008 at 4:30 pm
luvaridae
posted by dcfullest on 2-9-2008 at 4:31 pm
Alluv
n 1: small ovoid fruit of the European alluv tree; important food and source of oil… :)
posted by Mark on 2-9-2008 at 4:59 pm
diluvian
posted by Bella on 2-9-2008 at 5:06 pm
compluvian
posted by Allan on 2-9-2008 at 5:20 pm
I wanted to go with helluva but i got beat to it!
so i’ll go with eluvia
posted by Katie on 2-9-2008 at 5:29 pm
It’s fair to assume that postdiluvians had probably lost that loving feeling after forty days and nights adrift on Noah’s Ark.
posted by Robin Karides on 2-9-2008 at 5:57 pm
i cant get this eluvia out of my shoes..
posted by snail farmer on 2-9-2008 at 6:35 pm
Abluvion
posted by Cole on 2-9-2008 at 7:45 pm
how about luvian
posted by ARJ on 2-9-2008 at 7:47 pm
abluvion
(men’s large Pluto)
posted by buddz on 2-9-2008 at 7:59 pm
luvly
posted by lois on 2-9-2008 at 8:25 pm
pluvianus
(idioms M)
posted by Anthony on 2-9-2008 at 8:46 pm
colluvium
posted by Wiley on 2-9-2008 at 9:54 pm
*Eluvees* Prezlee, thenk you veddy much
rhesus size XL please
posted by jonathan n. thomas on 2-9-2008 at 9:55 pm
fluvation :
A term applied to all the numerous activities of streams.
Pavlov, long sleeved womans small
posted by Amy on 2-9-2008 at 9:57 pm
alluvium
posted by Niki on 2-9-2008 at 10:00 pm
alluvia
posted by NIki on 2-9-2008 at 10:01 pm
diluvia
posted by Niki on 2-9-2008 at 10:02 pm
eluviate
Pavlov, long sleeve womans small
posted by Amy on 2-9-2008 at 10:03 pm
illuvia
posted by Niki on 2-9-2008 at 10:03 pm
oops! I misread, thought one entry per comment, my bad
posted by Amy on 2-9-2008 at 10:05 pm
astronomicodiluvian
posted by John C on 2-9-2008 at 10:15 pm
I’ll go with simple:
luvs
posted by dawn on 2-9-2008 at 10:18 pm
Luvian
1. An Indo-European language of the Anatolian family, attested in documents from the second and first millennia B.C. and now extinct.
2. A speaker of Luvian.
Do you speak Luvian?
Gregor Mendel, medium
posted by Ash on 2-9-2008 at 11:09 pm
Pluvian the croc bird
g\mendel XXL
posted by Chris Coultas on 2-9-2008 at 11:16 pm
‘Impluvium’, “the sunken part of the atrium in a Greek or Roman house”
posted by Paul on 2-10-2008 at 12:03 am
lluvia
posted by kate5405 on 2-10-2008 at 12:11 am
Fluvoxamine Maleate
Fluvoxamine helps ppl with an obsessive-compulsive LUV disorder (hehe I made that definition up…)
posted by Insolent Minx on 2-10-2008 at 10:32 am
ingluvitis
posted by Aemi on 2-10-2008 at 12:34 pm
pluviometric
posted by suzanne on 2-10-2008 at 5:36 pm
Luvale
1 a member of a people living mainly in eastern Angola and western Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire).
2 the Bantu language of this people, with around 600,000 speakers. Also called Lwena .
posted by tess on 2-10-2008 at 8:46 pm
Antediluvian
posted by ZenBlue on 2-10-2008 at 8:57 pm
Fluviatile
a. – Belonging to rivers or streams; existing in or about rivers; produced by river action
posted by ZenBlue on 2-10-2008 at 9:05 pm
Colluvia
posted by Bethany on 2-10-2008 at 10:16 pm
Diluvial
posted by Hal on 2-10-2008 at 11:07 pm
Mulva
posted by Borg on 2-10-2008 at 11:35 pm
Helluva
Sharing is Caring, men’s m
posted by Will R on 2-11-2008 at 1:23 am
luverly
as in “Fresh Fish! It’s luverly!”
Easter Island, Medium, Please.
posted by Stacy on 2-11-2008 at 3:34 am
alluvion
posted by chuurakagi on 2-11-2008 at 8:12 am
uvula
posted by Brandy on 2-11-2008 at 10:42 am
Illuviate
posted by Fran on 2-11-2008 at 12:14 pm