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Richard

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Travisle..... To travel to an island!
« on: July 21, 2006, 11:35:30 AM »
What do you all think?  I made this one up the other day and I really like it.

"John and I will travisle to Hawaii next year."
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Angela

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Travisle..... To travel to an island!
« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2006, 07:59:28 PM »
Well, it's not an apronym, but it's kind of funny! See if you can spread it.
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Tony

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Travisle..... To travel to an island!
« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2006, 06:45:38 AM »
There's also trav-ell —> to go, but not go very far! :)
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Angela

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Travisle..... To travel to an island!
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2006, 10:16:35 AM »
Tra-vol -- to travel by plane (vol is French for flight)
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Angela

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« Reply #4 on: July 23, 2006, 11:04:44 AM »
Travelo: to travel by bike (velo means bicycle in French)

I should really stick to one language.
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tony

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Travisle..... To travel to an island!
« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2006, 09:11:27 AM »
Travail: to go into labour in the taxi on the way to the maternity hospital.

Travelk: to go by sleigh
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Angela

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Travisle..... To travel to an island!
« Reply #6 on: July 24, 2006, 10:13:10 AM »
Traveil: Goin' to the chapel and we're gonna get married...
Travole: Travel underground
Travill: Travel by ambulance
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Tony

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Travisle..... To travel to an island!
« Reply #7 on: July 24, 2006, 11:55:26 PM »
Travale - to stagger home drunk.
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Angela

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« Reply #8 on: July 25, 2006, 02:53:46 AM »
>>> On 24 July 2006 11:55:26 UTC, Tony wrote:

> Travale - to stagger home drunk.

When I first read that the 'ale' did not occur to me, and I thought it was a particularly obscure pun referring to the French verb 'avaler' which means 'to swallow'.

Now that I see both possibilities it seems even cleverer, and therefore more likely that you intended for them to both be there, and probably also the English meaning of avale, and vale, where home might be located. Or am I reading too much into this? I could be making things a lot lager than they are when there's beerly anything there.
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tony

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Travisle..... To travel to an island!
« Reply #9 on: July 26, 2006, 03:54:34 AM »
Angela wrote:

> Or am I reading too much into this?

Give that woman a cigar! waaaaaay too much. All I was alluding to was ale = booze.
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Angela

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Travisle..... To travel to an island!
« Reply #10 on: July 26, 2006, 03:55:36 AM »
TRAVISLE: To Realise A Voyage Into Small Land's Exotica
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tony

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« Reply #11 on: July 29, 2006, 10:45:59 AM »
Trav - to sink, two-thirds of the way through a voyage!

ravel - to be carried away from the Guillotine!

Travois - to have a window seat (my first bi-lingual entry here)
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Angela

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« Reply #12 on: July 29, 2006, 10:49:44 PM »
Perhaps you mean travoir... Travois sounds like what somebody would call a native of Trav :)

Travellum: A fancy travelogue
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tony

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Travisle..... To travel to an island!
« Reply #13 on: July 30, 2006, 10:18:09 PM »
Angela wrote:

> Perhaps you mean travoir... Travois sounds like what somebody would call a native of Trav :)

I know what I meant!
A travois is that triangular sled-like arrangement of poles attached to a horse for hauling people or things. In the Westerns of my youth the "Indians" made much use of them.

Travillain' light: a slim, escaped convict.
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