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On 12/11/2023 at 07:26, Sleepy head said:

Can the mods tell me why my last two posts have been edited?

Must have been caught by the swear filter. 

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7 minutes ago, Ked said:

Propane.

Greek origin pro being first and pane being fat.

Amazing in a way.

 

https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=propane

 

"colorless gas occurring in petroleum," 1866, with chemical suffix -ane + prop(ionic acid) (1850), from French propionique (1847), from Greek pro "forward" (see pro-) + pion "fat" (see fat (adj.)), which was so named in reference to its being first in order of the fatty acids.

 

The principal Greek word for fat is lipos, as in liposuction.

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57 minutes ago, redjambo said:

 

https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=propane

 

"colorless gas occurring in petroleum," 1866, with chemical suffix -ane + prop(ionic acid) (1850), from French propionique (1847), from Greek pro "forward" (see pro-) + pion "fat" (see fat (adj.)), which was so named in reference to its being first in order of the fatty acids.

 

The principal Greek word for fat is lipos, as in liposuction.

Eh?

Hud oan ill see what I looked at

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1 hour ago, redjambo said:

 

https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=propane

 

"colorless gas occurring in petroleum," 1866, with chemical suffix -ane + prop(ionic acid) (1850), from French propionique (1847), from Greek pro "forward" (see pro-) + pion "fat" (see fat (adj.)), which was so named in reference to its being first in order of the fatty acids.

 

The principal Greek word for fat is lipos, as in liposuction.

 

 

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2 minutes ago, Tazio said:

Folderol. 
Impressively used by Fiona Apple in a lyric. 

😆

I've got half a dozen eh them at work.

Purely tick box stuff.

I now have a collective noun for them.

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2 hours ago, davemclaren said:

Must have been caught by the swear filter. 

 

It's a funny one that filter, minge is fine, but try fl@nge and it's all Oh no you don't potty mouth!

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1 hour ago, Ked said:

Rebuttal. 

 

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The "pane" in propane doesn't mean fat as you had in your original post. Close though. "Pion" is your man, as your second source stated.

 

Counter-rebuttal. :)

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4 hours ago, ǝǝɥʇᴉɯS said:

 

It's a funny one that filter, minge is fine, but try fl@nge and it's all Oh no you don't potty mouth!

That was indeed my experience. I wasn't clever like you though.

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For the day that's in it:

 

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

 

- W.B. Yeats

 

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16 hours ago, davemclaren said:

Must have been caught by the swear filter. 

 

3 hours ago, Ulysses said:

For the day that's in it:

 

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

 

- W.B. Yeats

 

 

Gullible.  :biggrin:  :wink: 

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