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joy2bill
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Word of the Day
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Oh dear, my worst nightmare has occured! I have been tagged!
Okay, thinking cap on.  Thank goodness my intelligent young son is with me.
Sorry change of word. Apparently pandiculation has been suggested before.
So, drum roll, please. The new word is:
sophomania
Please remember the rules of the game: don �t give any dictionary/internet definitions, we want your own creative (maybe goofy) ideas about what it could be.
I �ll try and choose the winner this time tomorrow.
Good luck
Joy |
12 Jan 2011
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MarionG
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so = very
pho = short for phony (not genuine, fake)
mania = craze, hype
sophomania = the short lived but intense hypes which seem to characterize our times.
Often it seems that taking part in the sophomania is more important than the actual �subject � of the hype. Drangonballs can be traded for Pokemons and Barbie pictures can be traded for Justin Bieber �s braces, as long as you know what the latest hype is, you �re cool. |
12 Jan 2011
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MoodyMoody
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Sophomania is a very common condition in high school and college freshmen. Freshmen are just starting out and don �t want to be stigmatized as beginners. They want to go to the next level: sophomore! So sophomania is the crazy desire to bypass the freshman year and become sophomores. It can also be used to describe the intense desire to date sophomores. |
12 Jan 2011
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edrodmedina
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Everyone knows that PHO is a Vietnamese noodle that is made into a great tasting soup with veggies and pork and meatballs and tripe. SO is of course the abbreviation for South. MANIA is a crazed state of mind. Put them all together and you get SOPHOMANIA: a crazy desire for South Vietnamese noodle soup. And that �s the truth. ED..Back to bed..
BTW...anyone have some true and tried recipes for pho??? We�re snowed in...
PS..Do I have a better chance of winning if I repeat the same entry???Several times. ;-) |
12 Jan 2011
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miss K.
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This word may have a double meaning. "Mania" stands for "passion". "Sopho" may mean "Sophocle" and those who really love his works and teaching have sophomania.
Teachers may also suffer�from sophomania. They love the SOPHOmores so much that they think them best, and spend most of their teaching time on them, and it �s sophomores who they like to teach.
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12 Jan 2011
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MoodyMoody
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Sorry for the multiple post, Ed. I was afraid it didn �t post at all. I �ve since removed the duplicate and triplicate entries. |
12 Jan 2011
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