The Daily Bug

Posted by: palmettobug53, 8:45 PM GMT on January 22, 2012

As many of you know, I'm a big reader. Being a big reader, I like to think that I have a larger than average number of words (and their definitions) in my lexicon.

I don't have to run for the dictionary as often as I did in my younger years. Even then, sometimes I couldn't be bothered to stop reading long enough to look things up. I could get the general idea, if not the specific meaning, just from the context of what I was reading.

I have worked more crossword puzzles than I can shake a stick at. I have played innumerable games of Scrabble. The Word Power quiz in Readers Digest is one of the first things I look for when the new issues arrive in the mail.

At work, I receive a 'Word of the Day' from Merriam-Webster. It helps to start my day off with something other than a work email and I often learn something new. They give the definition, the use in a sentence and the origin. They also include a quiz, using a word that was in an earlier email. A little brain exercise!

Words intrigue me.

While reading the Sunday paper today, I ran across an article about Wayne State University's Word Warriors. They are "retrieving some of the English language's most expressive words from the dank closet of neglect, in hopes of boosting their chances of a return to conversation and narrative."

Here are their top 10 words for 2012:

Antediluvian

Erstwhile

Execrable

Frisson

Parlous (I really like this one!)

Penultimate

Sisyphean

Supercilious

Transmogrify

Truckle

To see the list and their definitions, click here.

Aren't those cool? LOL

How many of them could you define before you looked at the website?

Truckle threw me. I knew the definition as a noun but I didn't know it was also a verb.

At their website, you can nominate words to be considered for revival.

As for us, let's share our favourite words and see how many we can come up with?

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Updated: 8:57 PM GMT on January 22, 2012

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Kitty in the House!

Posted by: palmettobug53, 1:47 PM GMT on January 01, 2012

Greetings and Happy 2012 to everyone! It's the biggest white rabbits X3 month of the year!Thanks to Sandi, Rob, Pros, Karen, weatheringpoints and ylee for their last posts on my previous thread.Due to some type of outage here at WU yesterday a.m., I could not make my usual morning post. The rest of the day was very busy. I nodded out in my chair and missed the midnight countdown. I woke up about 12:15, said "Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit" and crawled off to bed.It ha...

Updated: 3:16 AM GMT on January 03, 2012

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I'm Dreaming of a Green Christmas

Posted by: palmettobug53, 2:04 PM GMT on December 17, 2011

"Don't tear the paper; we can save it for next year. Keep those bows. Save the boxes."Every time I unwrap a present, Christmas or otherwise, I flash back to Christmases at my grandmother's house. The members of Mama's family were big believers in re-using the things that most of us throw out today, without a second thought. Packages were opened very carefully. Wrapping paper was smoothed out and folded up. Bows were stored in bags. Boxes that held shirts, swea...

Updated: 7:17 PM GMT on December 17, 2011

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Still clueless.....

Posted by: palmettobug53, 4:19 PM GMT on November 03, 2011

Just needed to get the Halloween blog down and something new up.I'm just flinging up a clean thread during my lunch break here at work. I've no ideas, really. Maybe we can share some recipes, now that the weather is cooling off.HPShopping Coupon Code

Updated: 4:46 PM GMT on December 04, 2011

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Halloween Movies

Posted by: palmettobug53, 12:14 AM GMT on October 17, 2011

What's your favourite Halloween movie?Mine is, and has always been, Arsenic and Old Lace.

Updated: 12:19 AM GMT on October 17, 2011

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