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JD

What's jstor?

Ting

I'd vote 睡觉(sleep) as the greatest mandarin word.

Jamison Town

Meanwhile, at dictionary.com: "Why the Hell is 'flong' trending?"

Ami

Library reference tool for searching journals. Now that I think of it, I don't recall seeing it advertised in libraries that weren't in a university

Brian

It’s no “feamyng” either

Matt Grayson

Hystricine - pertaining to porcupines!

Pete Hanson

Ooh. A useful Scrabble word as well.

Matt Grayson

And the most self referential word of all: Definiendum - the word being defined in a dictionary entry.

Jon Delfin

As a proud owner of a dord Webster's 2nd, I salute you.

Anonymous

Flong! It follows that a human who so perfectly corresponds to a stereotype as to reinforce and perpetuate it is that stereotype's flong.

ysth

The greatest word ever invented is kääntäjä

Mitchell Sealy

I don't think you can hold people accountable when they live up to a stereotype. When white people talk about black people liking fried chicken for example, they're dehumanizing black people. But when an individual black person likes fried chicken, he's just living his life, trying to enjoy what's pleasing to his taste buds without white people getting on his case about it.

JD

Claire slowly sliding onto the floor is something i feel on a spiritual level

Ian Wolfe

You are all utterly wrong. The best word ever is "corgi".

Brad Knowles

With respect, I must disagree with you. I believe that "kitten" beats "corgi".

Megan Lane

Spatchcock -- to cut open a chicken in a method similar to butterflying, to flatten it out for grilling.

Bagge

NO JSTORING WHILE HIGH!

AcheronYYC

Flong is pretty decent, but the best-sounding english word is actually syphilis.

BobC

A good buzz converts any furniture covering into a superfluid. Or maybe it does that to the one intoxicated. I'm not sure. More experimentation required!

Ben Russell-Gough

Jeph, you're basically just planning strip after strip of a stoned Claire and Tai being random, aren't you? Is Tai's hand just coincidentally behind Claire's head or is she trying to keep her on the couch by way of grabbing the back of her vest?

Dean Reilly

The best word is 'chunder'. It's Australian though, so you need to pronounce it non-rhotically to get the full effect.

Andrew

I hear they're implementing a custom captcha - single question: "how many unicorns are there in the room?" Any non-zero answer and it blocks you for a day :)

Andrew

I always liked 'flensing knife'. Without looking it up you can pretty much guess it has a very specific (and graphic) purpose.

Anonymous

I am partial to "gudgeon," the socket parts of a hinge, particularly because the piece that goes through the gudgeons, holding the hinge together, is the pintle, which means penis. It just figures that is what a bunch of carpenters would call it.

Myron A Barber

Prang. It's a car wreck in England. Also I'm quite fond of one of the words in Japanese for snake. Most say Hebi but an older way is Kuchinawa, which means rope with a mouth.

Kuragari

Library nerds and etymology. So much fun.

Trigon Manthree

All you people who don't share my personal preference for which is the best word are wrong and can kiss my ass. My personally-preferred word is better than yours. And that's final.

Elf Sternberg

I typed 'flo' into Google and 'flong' was literally the third thing offered. I'm guessing Google knows I read QC, and saw a bunch of other QC readers asking the same thing.

Joe

is stereotypography anything like Stereotomy??

Philippa

My favourite word is "snood".

Danny Beans

Plinth. Flange. Onomatopoeia.