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argggg… I need to start reading the whole thing. I thought it had to start with AB and end in YZ
The closest I came was abyss.
…abyzzzzzz?
posted by Caitlin on 8-29-2008 at 8:35 am
Ok, this is picky, but isn’t analyzability also at least “remotely” common?
Other fun words that work:
hydrolyzable, dialyzable, plasmolyzable
What? You don’t use these in every day speech? Maybe I’ll go to Feyzabad to see if their vocabulary is any better.
posted by grammarnazi on 8-29-2008 at 10:55 am
Ok, this is picky, but isn’t analyzability also at least “remotely” common?
Other fun words that work:
hydrolyzable, dialyzable, plasmolyzable
What? You don’t use these in every day speech? Maybe I’ll go to Feyzabad to see if their vocabulary is any better.
posted by Craig on 8-29-2008 at 10:57 am
remotely common my ass!
posted by louise on 8-29-2008 at 11:47 pm
I thought that was just a rumor, Louise…
posted by Sandy on 8-30-2008 at 12:23 am