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April 20, 2006

Etymologic - try a quick multiple-choice guess-the-etymology game.
Betcha don't know the origin of "Amazon".

posted by fish tick at 02:08AM UTC [trackback] (24 comments total)

Wow, 7 out of 10...surprising!

And no, I don't know the origin of "Amazon"...

posted by cabingirl at 02:46AM UTC on April 20, 2006

That was fun. I did okay, but I was really just guessing. I did well with the phrases and poorly with the words.

posted by wingnut at 02:59AM UTC on April 20, 2006

I think they make half this shit up.

posted by Cardenio at 03:22AM UTC on April 20, 2006

3 of 10 on the first try, which is slightly better than guessing. Nearly suicidal I though I best try it again and I rather love linguistics. On the second go it was 8 of 10, and should have been 9 of 10 but I talked myself out of one I knew. I was trying to work the test rather than my knowledge.

Now I'll spend the rest of the night playing in search of that perfect 10 of 10 game so that I may declare myself Verbal Trivia Master of the Universe and sleep well.

With such a title I'll expect my peons to grunt me a good morning and deliver me a mimosa and jelly doughnuts in bed. Not that I like jelly doughnuts. They just have trouble understanding my requests with their meager language skills and didn't hear "nubile virgins" correctly.

posted by vandweller at 03:37AM UTC on April 20, 2006

I got 9 out of 10. but that sort of thing is right up my alley.

posted by Medusa at 03:41AM UTC on April 20, 2006

Did ok but I suspect that languagehat might have found some room for contention here.

posted by islander at 04:19AM UTC on April 20, 2006

9 out of 10 -- it got me on rankle.

posted by beeswacky at 05:53AM UTC on April 20, 2006

7 of 10.
ehh...

posted by Zanshin at 06:39AM UTC on April 20, 2006

I too got 9 out of 10. That rankle gets around.

posted by ooga_booga at 07:01AM UTC on April 20, 2006

8. I wrongly assumed that they would follow the incorrect but popular derivation of 'posh'...

posted by Plegmund at 07:08AM UTC on April 20, 2006

9. Foiled by a Cape Cod turkey.
Tons of fun, thanks fish tick.

posted by mothninja at 08:39AM UTC on April 20, 2006

MonkeyFilter: Foiled by a Cape Cod Turkey

posted by xott at 08:42AM UTC on April 20, 2006

7/10. Apparently I know very little of maidens, cocktails, and pandering.

posted by The Underpants Monster at 02:07PM UTC on April 20, 2006

Cool! I love it!

*bzzzzt* Dammit!
*bzzzzt* Dammit!
*bzzzzt* Aargh!
*bzzzzt* Fuck!

I hate it!

posted by petebest at 02:15PM UTC on April 20, 2006

*clak* take 2!

9 out of 10.

Meh. lousy stuipd no good dumb ol' crazy word thing

posted by petebest at 02:19PM UTC on April 20, 2006

note to self: don't invite the underpants monster and friends to next mixed-drinks party

posted by roryk at 02:48PM UTC on April 20, 2006

8/10 - medieval French terms trip me up. Not that this is a problem on a day-to-day basis.

posted by cobaltnine at 02:59PM UTC on April 20, 2006

9/10 nifty.

posted by Smedleyman at 06:23PM UTC on April 20, 2006

9/10. The Devil tripped me up.

posted by bobboggis at 09:05PM UTC on April 20, 2006

Ugh 3/10, "Miserable".

*clak* take 2!

7/10, "Good".

Ugh.

posted by techsmith at 09:33PM UTC on April 20, 2006

i "gotta go study".

posted by tennenho at 10:25PM UTC on April 20, 2006

I got 10 out of ten on my second attempt.

posted by Skrik at 10:38AM UTC on April 21, 2006

teacher's pet eh?

posted by petebest at 01:23PM UTC on April 21, 2006

Ye mean we get a second try?

posted by beeswacky at 01:32AM UTC on April 22, 2006

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