History repeating

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Originally Posted by manker

I think we need to put these words in order of goodness. Deboard sounds like you're ripping up a floor, disembark is a solid term but evokes a maritime feel and alight is a rather lovely intransitive verb that will confuse approximately 92% of non-British people due to them thinking of fire.

So; alight > disembark > deboard.

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go choo choo > yours

'Deboard' isn't even a real word so it comes nowhere on the scale. I'll second Manky's motion for implementation of the word 'alight'. It gives the impression that when I get off the train in my putrid miasma, a railway gentleman is there to help me step lightly and delicately from the doorway.

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Originally Posted by Squeamous

'Deboard' isn't even a real word so it comes nowhere on the scale. I'll second Manky's motion for implementation of the word 'alight'. It gives the impression that when I get off the train in my putrid miasma, a railway gentleman is there to help me step lightly and delicately from the doorway.

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File it under my 100 infractions for making up words because I like the way they sound.

Detrain is a word, and it sounds shitty, they'refore I'm not using it.

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Originally Posted by mjmacky

File it under my 100 infractions for making up words because I like the way they sound.

Detrain is a word, and it sounds shitty, they'refore I'm not using it.

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Mightn't it be better if you didn't use any? x

Or as a Glaswegian clippie might say "Cummoangetaff"

Today I has mostly been having impure thoughts about Louise Mensch and was emmodderated on the Guardian for saying she was hawt.



Humourless bastards that they are :dabs:

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Originally Posted by Squeamous

'Deboard' isn't even a real word so it comes nowhere on the scale. I'll second Manky's motion for implementation of the word 'alight'. It gives the impression that when I get off the train in my putrid miasma, a railway gentleman is there to help me step lightly and delicately from the doorway.

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Deplane wasn't a real word until Fantasy Island, and Wendy wasn't a real name until Peter Pan, popular culture has so much to blame for corrupting our youth. :idunno:

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Originally Posted by Squeamous

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Originally Posted by mjmacky

File it under my 100 infractions for making up words because I like the way they sound.

Detrain is a word, and it sounds shitty, they'refore I'm not using it.

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Mightn't it be better if you didn't use any? x

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Trap your yap!

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Originally Posted by Artemis

and Wendy wasn't a real name until Peter Pan

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It made it popular but I don't think it invented the name.

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Originally Posted by mjmacky

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Originally Posted by Artemis

and Wendy wasn't a real name until Peter Pan

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It made it popular but I don't think it invented the name.

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One I remember studying, from J.M. Barrie's play Peter Pan (1904) it was created from the nickname fwendy. I checked the etymology anyway, there is one other possible source, the name Gwendolyn, normally shortened to Gwen which could be attributed to Wendy 'rarely' .