gox and wox
May. 6th, 2008 07:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prettygoodwordLet's do a two-fer:
gox - n., gaseous oxygen.
wox - n., (obs.) imperative form of wax.
That is, wax as in the waxing moon. "Wox, thou peevish moon!" Or something like that. For gox, compare with lox. I gotta say, if my mother allows gox during Scrabble while grumping about fax (she still insists it's an abbreviation), I'm gonna be annoyed.
---L.
gox - n., gaseous oxygen.
wox - n., (obs.) imperative form of wax.
That is, wax as in the waxing moon. "Wox, thou peevish moon!" Or something like that. For gox, compare with lox. I gotta say, if my mother allows gox during Scrabble while grumping about fax (she still insists it's an abbreviation), I'm gonna be annoyed.
---L.
