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Larry's Pretty Good Word of the Day
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yepsen
yepsen
Nov
.
13th
,
2008
07:25 am
prettygoodword
yepsen
- n., the amount that can be held in two hands cupped together.
I
really
want to know the etymology of that one.
---L.
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Date:
2008-11-13 02:26 pm (UTC)
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janni.livejournal.com
That
is a cool word.
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Date:
2008-11-13 02:27 pm (UTC)
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asakiyume.livejournal.com
Wow--that's the surname of the guy who wrote my book on apples, Roger Yepsen. Cool.
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Date:
2008-11-13 03:10 pm (UTC)
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Yepsen! Brilliant!
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Date:
2008-11-13 07:21 pm (UTC)
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A wonderful word indeed. Now I, too, want to find the etymology. Sadly (but not surprisingly), it's not in my Oxford Concise English Dictionary... but google showed me this page from
yourdictionary.com
, where I learned a synonym!
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Date:
2008-11-13 11:06 pm (UTC)
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prettygoodword.livejournal.com
Oh cool. Thankee.
---L.
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