Shadowkeir Posted 18 years ago
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prosilient
useful word meaning outstanding, standing forth etc.
bring it back into the Ocford enlgish dictionary people.
I use Chambers because I care about words.
bring it back into the Ocford enlgish dictionary people.
I use Chambers because I care about words.
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I'd not convinced that words such as this are particularly useful; I'd guess that only one in a thousand native-speakers would know what the word means (I certainly didn't, and I've done a lot of reading in my fifty-odd years), and I find the word about as useful as I would a chocolate teapot. Sorry, I just think the word should be left in obscurity, where it belongs.
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I'd not convinced that words such as this are particularly useful; I'd guess that only one in a thousand native-speakers would know what the word means (I certainly didn't, and I've done a lot of reading in my fifty-odd years), and I find the word about as useful as I would a chocolate teapot. Sorry, I just think the word should be left in obscurity, where it belongs.
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A fellow used this word at my costume shop to mean conspicuous from the stage.
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I'll take any new words I can get. Prosilient looks and sounds very pleasant. An aesthetic as well as a functional addition to our vocabulary.
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