The last word of your mother tongue you have learnt ?

[Ciarán12]

An English acquaintance once opined that every city in the UK seems to have a different word for "the narrow space between two buildings". In Chicago it is a "gangway"; in St Louis we called it the "breezeway".

Here it's a "side passage-way"

[linguoboy]

An English acquaintance once opined that every city in the UK seems to have a different word for "the narrow space between two buildings". In Chicago it is a "gangway"; in St Louis we called it the "breezeway".

Here it's a "side passage-way"

Isn't "passage-way" also used in your variety to mean "corridor"?

[Ciarán12]

Isn't "passage-way" also used in your variety to mean "corridor"?

To me, "corridor" refers usually to something specifically indoors, I.e. the space between rooms in a building. "Passage-way" is something outdoors usually (though if someone referred to an indoor corridor as a "passage-way" I don't think I'd find it all that strange). Does "corridor" suggest something outdoors to you or is it more or less the same as for me?

[linguoboy]

To me, "corridor" refers usually to something specifically indoors, I.e. the space between rooms in a building. "Passage-way" is something outdoors usually (though if someone referred to an indoor corridor as a "passage-way" I don't think I'd find it all that strange). Does "corridor" suggest something outdoors to you or is it more or less the same as for me?

More or less, though I will say that "corridor" isn't really in my active vocabulary (except in the metaphorical sense of "territory providing access").

[vijayjohn]

ornithophobia

[Naava]

jutaaminen moving with the reindeer herd between the summer and winter pastures

[linguoboy]

Vatinian extremely strong [of hatred]

(Apparently Publius Vatinius was such a douchebag that we're still talking about it 2000 years later.)

[linguoboy]

rondeval circular hut (a Westernised version of a traditional African structure)

[Ciarán12]

recalcitrant

[linguoboy]

sonsy

[ReachingOut]

Ablution (act of washing/cleansing).

[vijayjohn]

sola scriptura

[linguoboy]

stigmarian

[vijayjohn]

ecumenopolis

[linguoboy]

samphire

[vijayjohn]

ഉദാര [uˈd̪aːɾa] - generous, liberal, noble, kind

[Ashucky]

A couple, actually:


upeči se - to decrease in size because of baking
ukuhati se - to decrease in size because of cooking

[linguoboy]

upeči se - to decrease in size because of baking
ukuhati se - to decrease in size because of cooking

Informally, you could translate those with “bake down” and “cook down”, respectively.

[vijayjohn]

നിർവ്വചിക്കുക [n̪irˈʋəd͡ʒikʲuga] 'to define, utter'

[Dormouse559]

Today on "Bizarre Wiktionary Entries":

fangjob

1. a lecherous mouth envelopment from someone with fangs
2. having fangs surgically created, like a nose job