OOh, fun! I went to Merriam-Webster's online dictionary to look up the plural of "spoonful"(spoonsful? or spoonfuls?) *
and ended up playing their "Name That Thing" quiz a whole bunch of times.
I did well, but only because the quiz is multiple choice. I have a decent passive vocabulary, but if it'd been write-in, I'd have written "thingamabob" over and over.
Naw, I'd have guessed.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeFQBRsh3cRI4h0o6lQ-cUcfT25MYf_42cnQTGVbv0n4_wPgw-UXUa6m5WMOy-JLK2nm8bVd4IAQoIV1Zt8sL2exZ6ZLfWT6oYB_YXzKvTFb7229EWi2peRnUZ78Rf12bqE6HpPvYtlQC3/s1600/Screen+Shot+2015-07-26+at+5.40.15+PM.png)
Let's see...
"equator"?
(for girdle)
"bobsled" (for luge)
"zipper teeth" (correct)
"under-bridge?" (I do know septum, but doubt I'd have come up with it)
"ampersand" (the only one I'd be 100% sure of)
...and "that boat Funny Girl sings on at the end of "Don't Rain on My Parade"--um, um...
TUGBOAT!"
(close enough)
I liked the quiz because I was learning something (not sure I'll retain any of it).
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* In the past, spoonsful, now spoonfuls is ascendent.
and ended up playing their "Name That Thing" quiz a whole bunch of times.
I did well, but only because the quiz is multiple choice. I have a decent passive vocabulary, but if it'd been write-in, I'd have written "thingamabob" over and over.
Naw, I'd have guessed.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeFQBRsh3cRI4h0o6lQ-cUcfT25MYf_42cnQTGVbv0n4_wPgw-UXUa6m5WMOy-JLK2nm8bVd4IAQoIV1Zt8sL2exZ6ZLfWT6oYB_YXzKvTFb7229EWi2peRnUZ78Rf12bqE6HpPvYtlQC3/s1600/Screen+Shot+2015-07-26+at+5.40.15+PM.png)
Let's see...
"equator"?
(for girdle)
"bobsled" (for luge)
"zipper teeth" (correct)
"under-bridge?" (I do know septum, but doubt I'd have come up with it)
"ampersand" (the only one I'd be 100% sure of)
...and "that boat Funny Girl sings on at the end of "Don't Rain on My Parade"--um, um...
TUGBOAT!"
(close enough)
I liked the quiz because I was learning something (not sure I'll retain any of it).
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* In the past, spoonsful, now spoonfuls is ascendent.
That was fun, thank you.
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