Roger, the poikilotherm was actually dropped on me in the company of my family, the speaker’s family, and his moving vehicle when we were all at Cornell University and he was was driving to a pizza palace. As an MD I guess he assumed his awesomeness would be evident by my asking what that meant. Didn’t work. It’s a word in “the literature”, as is the word for warm-blooded wizzos like you and me. That Oberweser- item isn’t English of course. Its song can be found on pre-Vinyl-is-back!-frenzy LPs here and there. Some imported Austrian math teachers and I were joking about big words. One said that there was a common addition that ended with -mutzfabrik (hat factory). I suggested adding “parking lot reserved space.”
The words don’t have to be long, just used by speakers of our language. I like zarf.
PS Zarf is almost too easy to spell, as is “tetrapod”. All quadrupeds are tetrapods. Let’s get snavely.
Last edited by Allen Tice; 04-18-2021 at 01:38 PM.
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