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(not a) wotd: article of mine in the Globe about outsourcing your handmade gifts this holiday season: http://is.gd/azVY |
(not a) wotd: Sarah Silverman coins a word on her show tonight: ozay. http://is.gd/afhZ |
Wotd: thirteenth-stepping: dating a fellow AA member. |
wotd: melologue: "A mixture of speech and song; a recitative; a melodrama." [Century Dictionary] |
wotd: burrowing: the practice by which political appointees accept demotions in order to get protected civil-service jobs. (Thx Joey!) |
wotd: Saxbe fix: reducing the pay of a civil service job to allow a lawmaker who previously voted for a pay raise for that job to take it. |
wotd: nebenformen: alternate, older, or lesser forms of a word, such as 'clitch' for 'clutch'. http://tinyurl.com/5t7awk |
not a wotd: send in your suggestions for the American Dialect Society's Word of 2008! tinyurl.com/5kbjkg (and @fritinancy, I'll be there) |
wotd: pangenome: the idea of the biosphere as an interconnected network of continuously circulated genes. (<Victor Tetz via New Scien ...... |
wotd: epigonion: an ancient Greek musical instrument, stringed like a harp but also having a soundboard, like a guitar. |
wotd: rinker: a roller-skater, someone who frequents a roller rink. |
wotd: Purkinje phenomenon: the tendency of blues and greens to look bright in dull light, and yellows and reds to look dull. http://tiny ...... |
Dm timoreilly: you are my favorite twitter news source! I hear more good ideas from you than from anywhere else ... |
wotd: romanette: in legal documents, the set of lower-case roman numerals used to enumerate clauses, e.g. (i), (ii), (ix), etc. |
wotd: synanthropic: of an animal, adapted to live in environments created or altered by humans. |
wotd: catupiry: "Catupiry is a Brazilian creamy cheese from Minas Gerais with a very high fat content." http://tinyurl.com/6q56t3 |
Wotd: buron: a cross between a bureaucrat and a moron (supposedly coined by Donald Trump in 2000). (cited in The Economist) |
wotd: finickety: a blend of finicky and persnickety ... seen in, of all places, The Economist. |
wotd: tetraflexagon: what you probably called a 'cootie catcher' as a kid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... |
(not a) wotd: giant list of word games, as reviewed in VERBATIM: http://tinyurl.com/5cnjk4 |
