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Thread ID: 50034 2004-10-08 05:50:00 WFTWE #123... Fard... A word open to serious marital misinterpretation... Billy T (70) Press F1
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279214 2004-10-08 05:50:00 Fard

To put on makeup, to fard your face :^O

I can just hear it now: Late leaving for a special
event and the makeup is still being applied.

"If you don't stop farding about in there we're gonna be late!"

Cheers

Billy 8-{) :)

Ah-well, I guess you have to have been married
a few years to appreciate this word. The riposte is:
You're not seriously thinking of wearing that are you?? 		Billy T (70)
279215 2004-10-08 06:29:00 Since the last WFTWE assignd me the honour of having wisdom is things relating to Islam, I would respectfully point out that:

fard

is also a word that describes something which is obligatory or compulsory on one of Muslim belief. It is a fard to pray 5 times a day, for instance. (Particularly for wayward souls such as Winston001 down in the land of the long white frost)

And I think that generally rules out having makeup on? Although, one should never jump to such conclusions I guess.

Unless you are French, in which case "cette femme est toujours très fardée" .... 		godfather (25)
279216 2004-10-08 10:06:00 Words fail me. You guys are fard too clever pour moi. ;) Winston001 (3612)
279217 2004-10-09 22:30:00 'Fard', also the Hilly Billy pronunciation for 'fired'. Someone told me once that Hilly-Billy pronunciation came from circa 17C English Gloucestershire, that I can believe. Terry Porritt (14)
279218 2004-10-10 05:36:00 Billy uses real words for WFTWE.

But fard is a 'makeup' one. ;\

Cheers. :D 		exLL (515)
279219 2004-10-10 06:13:00 > Someone told me once that Hilly-Billy
> pronunciation came from circa 17C English
> Gloucestershire, that I can believe.

Terry, this is sort of true. The Pilgrims sailed in 1620. The mountain regions, today home to the eponymous Hill-Billys, were not settled for another 100 years. American English had already taken root.

However apparently Hill-Billys, leading the insular lives they do, maintain the use and pronunciation of many Elizabethan words today. But so do other Americans, in regional pockets. So the Hill-Billy speech peculiarity is one of those interesting facts which has become exaggerated as if they alone have this linguistic curiosity.

I commend to you Bill Bryson's "The Mother Tongue". Very readable and it reveals that much of what we consider to be Americanisms, are in fact correct usages from the 16th and 17th centuries. :O 		Winston001 (3612)
279220 2004-10-10 06:15:00 Thank you aNTzy . You may not realise it but you were invaluable .

I am relatively new to PF1 but I am slowly learning the ropes . Today I finally got curious about WFTWE . I had been reading the posts for a while but what did WFTWE really mean? Obviously it was about words . Words For The Wise and Educated or Erudite seemed to fit the bill (especially as Godfather often joins in) but I wasn't certain .

I knew I could ask but then I thought that if I asked without first looking I might get whacked by WTF .

Google/Acroynms . Acronymfinder . com - over 350,000 acronyms - the webs largest searchable dictionary of acronyms and abbreviations . No problems here - WFTWE? Sorry, wftwe was not found in our database . 350,000 acronyms - you're kidding! Oh well, on to the next site . Five more sites and still no luck . I was getting worried .

Back to PF1 . SEARCH - WFTWE . Too many hits . Get precise - search for WFTWE#1 . No hits . It looks like I will have to run the risk of WTF after all . One more quick look around and then I saw it in WFTWE#102 - someone else had asked the question

Thank you aNTzy . It wasn't so hard after all . 		Raymondo (5284)
279221 2004-10-10 07:20:00 > Thank you aNTzy . You may not realise it but you were
> invaluable .
>
> I am relatively new to PF1 but I am slowly learning
> the ropes . Today I finally got curious about WFTWE . I
> had been reading the posts for a while but what did
> WFTWE really mean? Obviously it was about words .
> Words For The Wise and Educated or Erudite seemed to
> fit the bill (especially as Godfather often joins in)
> but I wasn't certain .
>
> I knew I could ask but then I thought that if I asked
> without first looking I might get whacked by WTF .
>
> Google/Acroynms . Acronymfinder . com - over 350,000
> acronyms - the webs largest searchable dictionary of
> acronyms and abbreviations . No problems here - WFTWE?
> Sorry, wftwe was not found in our database .
> 350,000 acronyms - you're kidding! Oh well, on to
> the next site . Five more sites and still no luck . I
> was getting worried .
>
> Back to PF1 . SEARCH - WFTWE . Too many hits . Get
> precise - search for WFTWE#1 . No hits . It looks like
> I will have to run the risk of WTF after all . One
> more quick look around and then I saw it in WFTWE#102
> - someone else had asked the question
>
> Thank you aNTzy . It wasn't so hard after all .

What the F***?! Weekly Edition . 'Nuff said . 		arachnophobia (6250)
279222 2004-10-10 07:40:00 Win. Thanks for that reference, I must try and get hold that book. Terry Porritt (14)
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