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Birthday: The main noun of the phrase. A compound word, made of two nouns, the first of which, "birth" serves as more an adjective, describing the more nounly "day," indicating the day on which someone was birthed...
...interested to read your article of January 11 concerning the new co-ed social club "Philos." I wonder if its membership realizes that "philos" is, in Greek, a masculine adjective. Might I suggest "philon," which is the neuter of that adjective, or "philotes," which is a feminine noun meaning "friendship." Robert A. Oden...
...academe, and its sinful neologisms. Scientists have every right to spend all their time lolling in cafes thinking up fresh words: all those spanking new particles and objects have to be called something. But the sewage of cultural theory and philosophy is a pernicious influence, taking your average happy noun ('problem'), and disfiguring it with a meaningless suffix. Take a few more such words; apply prefixes at will; stir boldly for a decade; before long, an entire generation will have on its tongues an assortment of unaesthetic and utterly meaningless words. And there, comrades, lies the rub. Their complete uselessness...
...Game is capitalized as a proper noun because it is very, very proper. It is like The Country Club: everybody who matters knows that it is in Brookline. Most of these same people know that The Game is The Game...
...Hong Kong is not just a noun, its regulars insist. "`Kong' is definitely a verb, `to Kong,'" says Scocca...