Re: COMELY My A@@

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Posted by graytst (Ranked 33 on Scrabble 2 (Zone) Ladder) on June 12, 2002 at 15:25:49:

In Reply to: Re: COMELY My A@@ posted by antimaven on June 12, 2002 at 06:46:32:

: The issue here is the level of vocabulary being considered, as, for example, formal, literary, colloquial, slang, etc. COMELY is indeed a relatively ordinary literary word; it is not particularly frequent in workaday conversation. I suspect, based on my personal observations, that its conversational usage is more frequent in Britain than in North America. (E.g., "Aye, she's a comely lass.")

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: Finally some scrabble-worthy comments on COMELY/COMELILY. COMELY is not in my speaking vocabulary and it is not, to my knowledge, in the speaking vocabulary of anyone I have spoken to in the last 60 years. It is in my reading (words I know) vocabulary, as opposed to recognition vocabulary (I've seen it but don't know what it means).

: But when I encounter a word like COMELY, which I THINK I know it's usage and definition, I always look it up later in the OSPD to see if they have any surprises for me - like COMELILY -and to double check my assumption that COMELIER and COMELIEST are good, and that COMELIES is a phony.

: Make a habit of doing this and you will get hundreds of surprises. Do it more and you'll get thousands of "surprises". ... ... ... Graytst.

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: : : : : The issue here is the level of vocabulary being considered, as, for example, formal, literary, colloquial, slang, etc. COMELY is indeed a relatively ordinary literary word; it is not particularly frequent in workaday conversation. I suspect, based on my personal observations, that its conversational usage is more frequent in Britain than in North America. (E.g., "Aye, she's a comely lass.") : : : : anti : : : : Finally some scrabble-worthy comments on COMELY/COMELILY. COMELY is not in my speaking vocabulary and it is not, to my knowledge, in the speaking vocabulary of anyone I have spoken to in the last 60 years. It is in my reading (words I know) vocabulary, as opposed to recognition vocabulary (I've seen it but don't know what it means). : : But when I encounter a word like COMELY, which I THINK I know it's usage and definition, I always look it up later in the OSPD to see if they have any surprises for me - like COMELILY -and to double check my assumption that COMELIER and COMELIEST are good, and that COMELIES is a phony. : : Make a habit of doing this and you will get hundreds of surprises. Do it more and you'll get thousands of "surprises". ... ... ... Graytst.

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