Luke warm

[jimmyb01]

When something is a little warm, why LUKE ?

[Ewood27]

If you click here you will be taken to a page with an explanation. I didn't know it either!

[Hippy]

From Old Norse. The word "hlyr" meant warm, mild. We get the word "lee" meaning the sheltered (from the wind and weather) side of something from the same source. This word changed to "hleow" in Old English. The first usage to mean tepid was late 16th century "lew-warm" to describe warmth from the sun and the action of warming something.

[Hippy]

Oh, EW. Simultaneous in excelsis omnibus!

[Ewood27]

Synchography rules - yeah!

[Quizmonster]

As I actually coined the word right here on AnswerBank a few months ago, I'd really appreciate it if others would use the original spelling...synchrography. Without the first 'r', it doesn't really hang together in my view.

Of course, if you prefer an r-less and even newer coinage, feel free, but it ain't never gonna sound right!

[pinus]

But it had previously appeared here http://www.ummagurau.com/writing/anime/evaarc/trilogy1.txt You'll need to scroll down :-)

[Quizmonster]

Well I'll be darned! Here's a quote from the site linked-to by Pinus...

"Then she was dreaming a purple dream somewhere down a dream of water and marks and fat penguins and then they awoke her."

I do hope there is no similarity - other than the fact that we both independently came up with the concept of synchrography - between that writer's brain and mine!

A Google search on 'synchrography' offers four websites, three of them from right here on AB and another which goes on about 'synchrogaphy'...ie where it's the second 'r' that's omitted!

I have to apologise, Pinus, for never before having seen these websites, published in 1995 and 1998. (I don't think I even knew how to switch a computer on in them days!) Nevertheless, I now happily acknowledge that I was not the first to come up with the word. Cheers

[bernardo]

Great minds think alike.
"Synchrography" in Volapük is probably "otonaedapenam" or some such word.

[Ewood27]

Sorry, QM. Typos also rule, it seems!

[Quizmonster]

Cheers, E. No offence to your good self intended on my part originally, of course.