wotd: literonic: of a word, being found mainly in written texts; not heard in speech often or at all. [coined by Ann McNamee] about 8 hours ago from twhirl |
wotd: psychoradiator: a fictional mind-control device (from Philip K. Dick's "The Radiant Dome") about 8 hours ago from twhirl |
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wotd: melologue: "A mixture of speech and song; a recitative; a melodrama." [Century Dictionary] 10:49 AM Dec 3rd from twhirl |
wotd: burrowing: the practice by which political appointees accept demotions in order to get protected civil-service jobs. (Thx Joey!) 11:58 AM Dec 2nd from twhirl |
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. 7:18 AM Dec 2nd from twhirl |
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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) 11:21 AM Dec 1st from twhirl |
wotd: pangenome: the idea of the biosphere as an interconnected network of continuously circulated genes. (<Victor Tetz via New Scien ...... 1:26 PM Nov 29th from twhirl |
wotd: epigonion: an ancient Greek musical instrument, stringed like a harp but also having a soundboard, like a guitar. 1:13 PM Nov 26th from twhirl |
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Dm timoreilly: you are my favorite twitter news source! I hear more good ideas from you than from anywhere else ... 3:14 PM Nov 21st from txt |
wotd: romanette: in legal documents, the set of lower-case roman numerals used to enumerate clauses, e.g. (i), (ii), (ix), etc. 2:10 PM Nov 19th from twhirl |
wotd: synanthropic: of an animal, adapted to live in environments created or altered by humans. 12:11 PM Nov 18th from twhirl |
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