Diverting my attention/the word 'eschew'

[Fnaar]

Having noticed the word 'eschew' twice today on these here forums, and being somewhat desperate to divert my attention from the work I should be concentrating on, I decided to do a forum search for this not exactly everyday word. Interestingly (??) it brings up 7 pages of results. Hencetoforth, I shall eschew this word.

 

[Beebo]

Bless you!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Coincidentally, the word ''fissiparous'' came up yesterday. I just did a search to confirm that it was the first time it had ever been used here.

 

[TheDoctor]

I've just had to defenestrate a wasp.

 

[accountantpete]

You'll just have to masticate instead.

 

[Fnaar]

You'll just have to masticate instead.

I'm eschewing that, till there's an 'r' in the month.

 

[machew]

I am incongruous to my bike​

 

[Fnaar]

I've just had to defenestrate a wasp.

"defenestrate a wasp" oh Lor!! Is that like "shoving a bee through the window", or "squashing a fly"?

 

[TheDoctor]

It's like shoving a wasp out of a window, yes...

 

[Archie_tect]

Through the glass.

 

[Melonfish]

Now you are just pursuing an untamed ornithoid without cause

oh and when i mentioned to the work mates that i had come over all esurient they looked at me like i was about to come out of the closet...

 

[Archie_tect]

Did you know there 7 morphological paradoxes?

 

[Archie_tect]

Paradox No. 1. The word is central to language, yet resists definition.
Paradox No. 2. We know words as wholes, yet we also know them by their parts.
Paradox No. 3. The derivation-inflection distinction is crucial, yet not clear-cut.
Paradox No. 4. Inflection is both paradigmatic and rule-governed.
Paradox No. 5. The lexicon is where the words of a language are listed yet there are some that should not be listed.
Paradox No. 6. Composition, the Mother of Complexity.
Paradox No. 7. Universal aspects of the arbitrary sign.

 

[Archie_tect]

Nos. 1, 3 and 5 defy any logic that I can see...

 

[ASC1951]

Coincidentally, the word ''fissiparous'' came up yesterday. I just did a search to confirm that it was the first time it had ever been used here.

Well I never - a hapax legomenon.

Like coming across

ραφανιδοω ​

[raphanidoo] in Aristophanes.
"PleaseSir whassimeanSir?"
"Er, you'll just have to go and look it up"