Word of the week

JCA2550

Playing around with Excel spreadsheets at work and I stumbled across a word I hadn't seen before....

Concatenation

Anyone else found a word that's new to them recently?

viz

Aegilopa. Each letter is higher than the previous, apart from the last, which returns to an A. Rather like a scale.

bertie

happy

Emp_Fab

May I be the first to offer my contrafibularities.

Fretwired

muckibus

Bellycaster

You're being Peptic and Frasmotic again, Emp.

octatonic

'Cuntychops'.

Islandape

I taught somebody at work the word Plagiarism this week when he asked why I insisted on having my name on a document.

JCA2550

octatonic said:

'Cuntychops'.

Ha! I sat in on a diciplinary hearing for a former work colleague several years ago, who'd addressed his female assistant manager (he was the manager) as "Cuntychops" he  thought he was being witty but, she took exception, lodged a complaint with HR and ultimately, it cost him his job. I was there to ensure fair play and it took vast amounts of gravitas and professionalism to not explode with nervous laughter.

JCA2550

Islandape said:

I taught somebody at work the word Plagiarism this week when he asked why I insisted on having my name on a document.

I bet they're using it all the time now?

chillidoggy

Drew.

Islandape

JCA2550 said:

Islandape said:

I taught somebody at work the word Plagiarism this week when he asked why I insisted on having my name on a document.

I bet they're using it all the time now?

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You have no idea how funny that is given the personality involved...

equalsql

JCA2550 said:

Playing around with Excel spreadsheets at work and I stumbled across a word I hadn't seen before....

Concatenation

Anyone else found a word that's new to them recently?

Being that I 'program' for a living this is an every day term that's used so when I mentioned to a workmate who just started progamming that he would need to 'concatenate the two strings' in response to his query.. he looked at me like I was speaking Dutch.  

>:D<

My new word for this week is not new but a different meaning to our favourite word this week 'C*nt'.  Not used as slang or insult ,but as  (at least in 19th and early 20th century Derbyshire) the name for an open leather pouch attached to a strap slung across the shoulder and chest, used to carry a long rounded grit/sharpening stone. The stone being used to sharpen the large two-handled scythes used by the labourers when out in the fields cutting down the crops at harvest time. C*nt was not considered an offensive word at  to the local populace at the time. However given the phallic shape of the stone its easy to see how the name for the pouch came about.   B-) 

snakemanStoo

Responsibility.

Don't know what it means, people just say it to me.

chillidoggy

"Cockbadger". Courtesy of Emp.

octatonic

JCA2550 said:

octatonic said:

'Cuntychops'.

Ha! I sat in on a diciplinary hearing for a former work colleague several years ago, who'd addressed his female assistant manager (he was the manager) as "Cuntychops" he  thought he was being witty but, she took exception, lodged a complaint with HR and ultimately, it cost him his job. I was there to ensure fair play and it took vast amounts of gravitas and professionalism to not explode with nervous laughter.

I think she may have had a point.

I can't imagine saying that at a place of work.

stickyfiddle

Cramplehammer. 

Not a real word but I want it to be one because it's fun to say.

mike_l

chillidoggy said:

"Cockbadger". Courtesy of Emp.

My apprentice has now been renamed "Cockbadger"

Flanging_Fred

Wassailing.

Never heard it before and the heard it twice in one day last week. It means to go around houses carol singing.

wibble

http://www.theguardian.com/media/mediamonkeyblog/2013/dec/18/countdown-channel-4-conundrum

strumjoughlamps

bafflegab