Timo Sirainen put forth on 3/26/2010 7:36 AM: > On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 20:01 +1000, Noel Butler wrote: >>>>> "dovehole" - you go inside dovecot via a hole, right? >>>> >>>> That is downright pornographic. "dovehole" - "lovehole"? >>>> >>>> "dovenest" isn't totally horrible (close), but "dovehole" is ... >>>> just not >>>> right at all. >>> >>> dovetail >> >> +1 > > Tail just doesn't make much sense to me. Also it's not completely free > of pornographic associations either. :)
No, no, totally free of pornographic connotation. Dovetail is a type of woodworking joint. That's what the vast majority of people on planet earth will associate "dovetail" with anyway. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dovetail_joint > So my last idea: doveless. "It's less of a dovecot process." To me it > seems closer to perfect as anything I've seen so far. Or how about just "dovel", a crafty word smithing merge of dovecot+shovel? Although I'm unsure of any parallels between the work done by this thing and that performed by a shovel. ;) Still, it's catchy. -- Stan
