Hi Folks,

 

This evening, I have been thinking up my favorite HEAD words....and so.....

What are yours?

 

Head of a penis?

Giving head?

Perchance?

 

NO!

 

Get your minds out of the gutter, please!

 

I am talking linguistically here, as usual.

Nothing naughty.

 

 

 

Big RED Dog!

Such a NICE Head word.

 

For example: Wow!  He's got a BIG Red Dog, a-hangin' there.....between....

 

English is such a wonderful language, and so very versatile, that one or two words, juxtaposed in the right way....can mean almost anything, depending upon word order, etc.

 

My friend Chomsky wrote about head words, but never gave any head, is my guess.

 

I love the English language.

And, where does one find the BEST of the English language?

Why.....in the UK.....OF COURSE.

 

My life is all about my interest in language.

And, the field of Linguistics is all-encompassing, covering many interdisciplinary fields of knowledge and research.

 

You gots your Linguistics of Physics, even....

 

https://oge.mit.edu/linguistics-is-basically-physics/

 

So, then....

What are your favorite HEAD words?

 

Giving, receiving, what?

 

And, the colored girls go......

 

Humans.

Most humans were born with a brain.

This is their only redeeming characteristic, in fact.

Otherwise, humans might not be worth much.

 

Do you love wordplay?

 

It was getting a bit boring around here....

I think......

 

Anyone here interested in the Topic of HEAD WORDS?

Like me?

 

Let me hear from you, then....!

 

Regards,

Gamma

 

 

 

but you don't smoke...

 

 

21 minutes ago, stoner said:

but you don't smoke...

 

 

 

Right.

I'm not, nor have I ever been....

A pot HEAD.....

 

Still, HEAD words, I do like.....

 

 

3 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Still, HEAD words, I do like.....

 

what's the red heads name again ? 

7 minutes ago, stoner said:

 

what's the red heads name again ? 

 

The question you gotta ask yourself is:

 

Is "pothead" a HEAD word, or not....

THIS is the linguistically inclined question posed in this Topic.

 

Well, is it, Punk?

 

(As Clint Eastwood might have said....)

 

 

 

This topic is just so....MIT....

 

 

 

I think you're a Head case! 

17 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Well, is it, Punk?

 

dickhead is a head word.  

25 minutes ago, CharlieKo said:

I think you're a Head case! 

 

Nice one!!!!!!!

 

Love it!

 

(Thank you. Your comment really makes my day.  NO JOKE!)

 

 

Head job 

Who remembers the Australian 1980's band called ...The Radiators? 

 

They had a song number 1.... 1981 called Give me head 

"Oh you got me screaming at 100 degrees....

5 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

Head job 

Who remembers the Australian 1980's band called ...The Radiators? 

 

They had a song number 1.... 1981 called Give me head 

"Oh you got me screaming at 100 degrees....

It didn't make the top 100 in Australia. 

 

 

10 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Hi Folks,

 

This evening, I have been thinking up my favorite HEAD words....and so.....

What are yours?

 

Head of a penis?

Giving head?

Perchance?

 

NO!

 

Get your minds out of the gutter, please!

 

I am talking linguistically here, as usual.

Nothing naughty.

 

 

 

Big RED Dog!

Such a NICE Head word.

 

For example: Wow!  He's got a BIG Red Dog, a-hangin' there.....between....

 

English is such a wonderful language, and so very versatile, that one or two words, juxtaposed in the right way....can mean almost anything, depending upon word order, etc.

 

My friend Chomsky wrote about head words, but never gave any head, is my guess.

 

I love the English language.

And, where does one find the BEST of the English language?

Why.....in the UK.....OF COURSE.

 

My life is all about my interest in language.

And, the field of Linguistics is all-encompassing, covering many interdisciplinary fields of knowledge and research.

 

You gots your Linguistics of Physics, even....

 

https://oge.mit.edu/linguistics-is-basically-physics/

 

So, then....

What are your favorite HEAD words?

 

Giving, receiving, what?

 

And, the colored girls go......

 

Humans.

Most humans were born with a brain.

This is their only redeeming characteristic, in fact.

Otherwise, humans might not be worth much.

 

Do you love wordplay?

 

It was getting a bit boring around here....

I think......

 

Anyone here interested in the Topic of HEAD WORDS?

Like me?

 

Let me hear from you, then....!

 

Regards,

Gamma

 

 

Get your minds out of the gutter, please!

 

Well, you started it!!

 

49 minutes ago, ChrisKC said:

 

 

As you say.

 

Anyway, the head of the compound noun handbag is bag, due to the fact that a handbag is a bag, and not a hand.

 

Analogously, you can hang out with an old-bag, but she is still a bag.

 

The head words of both compound nouns, in these cases, are bags.

 

 

 

Sorry. No idea what you're talking about. 

12 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Hi Folks,

 

This evening, I have been thinking up my favorite HEAD words....and so.....

What are yours?

 

Head of a penis?

Giving head?

Perchance?

 

NO!

 

Get your minds out of the gutter, please!

 

I am talking linguistically here, as usual.

Nothing naughty.

 

 

 

Big RED Dog!

Such a NICE Head word.

 

For example: Wow!  He's got a BIG Red Dog, a-hangin' there.....between....

 

English is such a wonderful language, and so very versatile, that one or two words, juxtaposed in the right way....can mean almost anything, depending upon word order, etc.

 

My friend Chomsky wrote about head words, but never gave any head, is my guess.

 

I love the English language.

And, where does one find the BEST of the English language?

Why.....in the UK.....OF COURSE.

 

My life is all about my interest in language.

And, the field of Linguistics is all-encompassing, covering many interdisciplinary fields of knowledge and research.

 

You gots your Linguistics of Physics, even....

 

https://oge.mit.edu/linguistics-is-basically-physics/

 

So, then....

What are your favorite HEAD words?

 

Giving, receiving, what?

 

And, the colored girls go......

 

Humans.

Most humans were born with a brain.

This is their only redeeming characteristic, in fact.

Otherwise, humans might not be worth much.

 

Do you love wordplay?

 

It was getting a bit boring around here....

I think......

 

Anyone here interested in the Topic of HEAD WORDS?

Like me?

 

Let me hear from you, then....!

 

Regards,

Gamma

 

 

 

You love English because it's your mother language? If you would speak fluently French eg (or Italian or German) and would dive deeper than "Armour toujour" then you would recognise who simple and poor English language is, actually. But go on with your stories. Make me smile every time.🙏

Porkhead pighead stonehead knucklehead 

Headwinds

21 minutes ago, Thingamabob said:

Sorry. No idea what you're talking about. 

 

I am not talking about COXHEAD's headwords, and the need to not be confused by the similarity of the two terms "headword" and "head".

 

Here is the difference:

 

a.  COXHEAD'S headword list excerpt:

 

 

b.  a "head" is defined as this....

 

 

c. It's crucial not to confuse the two, which I often do....or did....

 

Before I learned the difference.

 

Hope this helps, some...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This man has a very square head.

 

 

 

It has all gone over my heed  .......

 

regards worgeordie

37 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

It has all gone over my heed  .......

 

regards worgeordie

 

I have GREAT respect for professor COXHEAD.

 

Her early research has influenced many.

 

But, still....

 

Headwords are not "heads", linguistically speaking, as I have clearly stated above.

 

Regards,

 

Note: Professor Coxhead is a real researcher who produced one of the better-known Academic Word Lists...which contains many headwords, I might add...

 

 

 

9 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

I have GREAT respect for professor COXHEAD.

 

Her early research has influenced many.

 

But, still....

 

Headwords are not "heads", linguistically speaking, as I have clearly stated above.

 

Regards,

 

Note: Professor Coxhead is a real researcher who produced one of the better-known Academic Word Lists...which contains many headwords, I might add...

 

 

 

This thread is a head trip so I’m heading on out of here. 

2 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Analogously, you can hang out with an old-bag, but she is still a bag

 

how is she with handjobs ? 

 

And let's not forget the BBC's propagandist for the Red Shirt movement, Richard Johnathan Head.

 

30 minutes ago, stoner said:

 

how is she with handjobs ? 

 

Hard to say, linguistically speaking.

 

For one, handjob is a compound noun, obviously.

 

But, which is the head in the word handjob?

 

Still, let me refer you to what I have already stated:

 

 

 

So then, what is your best guess?

 

a.  a handbag is NOT similar to a handjob.

 

b. a handjob is not a job....(at least for most people)

 

c. a handjob is not a hand, for anyone.

 

d.  Therefore, I would go with saying that the head of a handjob is the word JOB.

 

MY JUSTIFICATION for my choice?

 

It's simply that....

 

1. The stem JOB is the head since it determines the basic meaning of the compound.

2. The stem HAND only modified this meaning.  (Because, one can think of other similar jobs, but not using the hand.)

 

So, yes.....

For sure....

 

Job is the Head, linguistically speaking.

 

And, also, one might note, giving head is also a job.  But, this has nothing to do with this compound noun, in this case.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

c. a handjob is not a hand, for anyone.

 

sure it is. someone is lending you a hand in the most literal sense. aka handy.

what about <deleted>. 

16 minutes ago, stoner said:

 

sure it is. someone is lending you a hand in the most literal sense. aka handy.

 

Sorry.

Lend a Hand....is a verb phrase and also an idiom.

 

So, this does not qualify as a stem of a compound noun.

 

So solly Sir.

 

 

15 minutes ago, stoner said:

what about <deleted>. 

 

I cannot comment upon what I cannot see.

So solly Sir.

 

4 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

I cannot comment upon what I cannot see.

So solly Sir.

 

 

won't let me.

 

what about gluebag.