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[Cohiba]

Here are 15 words beginning with the letter F.
How many do you know the meaning of? I realize
that cheating is easy in this case. But try it without
the dictionary.

floret
floriculture
florid
Florida
florist
floss
flotage
flotation
flotilla
flounce
flounder
flour
flourish
floury
flout

BONUS: Which word has 4 distinct meanings?

[Bulsajo]

I'd be really surprised- given we are 'all' university grads and/or ESL teachers- that anyone would fall below the 10-15 word category (AND be willing to admit it here).










Zyzyfer would probably be an exception.

[Zyzyfer]

I think I know what Florida means, but that's about it.

[Cohiba]

I'm a Uni grad, but I have a B.Sc. I took one English
course my whole time at University. So I know a lot
of science related words, but words like in the list, well?

But ask me the meaning of "heteroscedasticity", no probs.

[Bulsajo]

I would consider 8-9 of them to be common usage, so I didn't think it would be much of a stretch for ESL instructors to get 10+...
But maybe I'm wrong.

[steroidmaximus]

I knew the meaning of all, and I guess flounder for the 4 distinct meanings

checking. . .

damn, I suck

[tzechuk]

I know them all, except Flotilla.. what does it mean?

[Bulsajo]

I thought that was one of the 'common usage' words!
So, I guess you don't do much yachting?

[keithinkorea]

Too easy. I'd be suprised if most of us could explain all these words reasonably well without resorting to using a dictionary, plus probably a great deal more.

[pegpig]

I'm thinking of an 'f' word now and it has numerous meanings.

[blunder1983]

Fan?

[keithinkorea]

[pegpig]

No, unfortunately my mind is all mushy these days. It was the most familiar of them all. I'd like to post something sent my way a few years ago explaining it's many uses, but the *beep* would come up about 30 times or so and I'm afraid it would lose it's pizazz. Plus, it would get deleted well before hardly a few had had a chance to enjoy/be annoyed. Perhaps if I'm feeling a little ballsy later....

[lastat06513]

one time, at the last class at this one institute.
I made a list of all the "prime" English words that students "needed" to learn.
I thought they would be disgusted by it, but they wanted to learn more.

I heard there are over 1,400 uses for the "f" word.

Could that be true???

[Qinella]

I didn't know "floret" or "flotage". Is "flotage" pronounced flow-tahjh?

My guess for the 4 meanings is flounder.