This script is going to involve a lot of C&P. "If user input is a, then enter into table a, else if b, then b…"
Strange, vim's shell script syntax highlighting is…incorrect? BBEdit's highlighting is accurate. Hmm.
Navicat has become painfully slow handling my DB, beachballing on every click and with a painful input lag that brings me back to the days when 1GB of memory was a lot.
Which suggests that it may be time to start using the command line more. Could write a bash script to insert records, actually, once I can be sure that I've understood "SELECT lastinsertrowid()" properly.
@kdfrawg A subject of much discussion [skorks.com], preceded, in this link, with a discussion of what a rhyme is.
@kdfrawg The question came to me when I read about the construction that allows for verbs to be derived from adjectives by suffixing -en (e.g. wide -> widen). I was trying to think, in terms of regex, how one might find a list of all of these verbs in a corpus, given a complete list of adjectives in English. At some point in that thought process, I realised that I was struggling to find adjectives ending in vowels other than y or e.
I don't particularly see the immediate significance of such a question, but I guess that's the general way of things in academia — the dictionary-grammar model wasn't questioned all that much until people like the construction grammarians came along and (in some cases, literally) turned that concept on its head.
@kdfrawg None taken — I posted the question because I don't consider my vocabularly nearly large enough to be sure.
Yellow, ending in "w", is a consonant — for that, I'll refer you to the original criteria "doesn't end in a consonant, y, or e".
One other issue is finding out whether there is such a thing as an adjective that has always been an adjective, i.e. not derived from a noun. "Black", for example, often referred to ink as well as the colour itself; for example, if I remember correctly, "orange" is derived from a noun ("naranga" in Sanskrit).
@kdfrawg In "sea salt", "sea" is a noun that has come to be used as an adjective, so doesn't quite conform to my amendment "not derived from other word classes".
"Extra" is suggested to be either an abbreviation of "extraordinary", which makes it similar to "Rasta" and "Rastafarian", or from the Latin adverb "extra".
A friend suggested "impromptu", and another "in situ".
Interesting.
The former is derived from a prepositional phrase ("in promptu"), and the latter still is one, unless it's written as "in-situ", but then is it an adjective or a prepositional phrase put into a modifier position with its orthography modified to conform to English norms?
Perhaps the question should be if there are any adjectives that don't have these endings and that weren't derived from other word classes.
Someone else suggested "yellow", a comment which I won't bother to respond to…