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Wednesday, January 25, 2006

From Merriam-Webster online: Bushite

The word you've entered isn't in the dictionary. Click on a spelling suggestion below or try again using the search box to the right.
Suggestions for bushite: 1. bushier
2. bushiest
3. botchiest
4. botchier
5. bushy
6. Boeotia
7. boyishly
8. bushtit
9. bauxite
10. botchy


http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Bushite

This was fun, and it suggests lots of good wordplay. "bauxite" is the closest, in terms of pronunciation--it's the raw material of aluminum (aluminium for you Brits). I like the fact the search engine offered up "botch" and "botchiest", the relevance of which should be obvious. Even "boyishly" could be seen from a certain perspective as more than just two words that sound similar. Somehow, it didn't come up with "buoyishly", or even "goyishly" (though they might both apply, if they existed as words).

I have to look up this "Boeotia", which was in ancient Greece (Q: is it still a place name in use?), and see if its historical example has any relevance to the current tyranny of Bushite misrule.

1 comment:

Chin Shih Tang said...

Oh, geez, I forgot to mention "bushtit"! Now, there's a word that seems almost too good to be true. I have to look that one up, too.