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June 27, 2012
Producing geese
The Wordnik Word of the Day for June 27, 2012 is
anatiferous
http://www.wordnik.com/words/anatiferous
(adj) Producing geese; that is, producing the cirripeds formerly called tree-geese or goose-mussels, which adhere to submerged wood or stone, but were formerly supposed to grow on trees, and then to drop off into the water and turn into geese.
‘Anatiferous’ comes from the Latin ‘anas,’ duck, plus ‘ferous,’ producing, containing. The Old EnRead More...
June 23, 2012
i hear a word of the day
The Word of the Day for June 24 is:
borborygmus bor-buh-RIG-mus noun, plural borborygmi
: intestinal rumbling caused by moving gas
Examples:
The hall was very quiet as the test-takers concentrated on the task at hand, and Cara hoped that her embarrassing borborygmus went mostly unnoticed.
"'Both men are presenting the classic symptoms [of severe typhoid fever] — fever, sudden prostration, abdominal distress, delirium, right lower quadraRead More...
June 22, 2012
a word to die for
The Wordnik Word of the Day for June 22, 2012 is
necrolatry
http://www.wordnik.com/words/necrolatry
(noun) Worship of the dead; worship of the spirits of the dead, or of ancestors; excessive veneration or sentimental reverence toward the dead.
‘Necrolatry’ comes from the Greek ‘nekros,’ dead body, corpse, dead person, plus ‘latreia,’ worship, service paid to the gods, hired labor.
Example:
Perhaps what had attracted her moRead More...
June 21, 2012
What do the hieroglyphs have to say?
YOU HAVE TO STOP THIS, apparently. Out now in England. Is no island safe?
Click on the hieroglyphs to see what we mean.
June 12, 2012
what a monster
A sock monster. Thanks, Agent ME!
June 11, 2012
Ray Bradbury 1920 - 2012
Writer Ray Bradbury passed away on June 5th.
Bradbury, a master of science fiction whose imaginative and lyrical evocations of the future reflected both the optimism and the anxieties of his own postwar America, died on Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 91.
Read the rest of the article here.
June 8, 2012
Quicksand
What exactly is quicksand? Click here to find out what _may_ one day save your life.
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June 6, 2012
Questionnaire? Question-smell.
Glass Petal Smoke invited Mr. Bosch to take part in answering a Sensory Questionnaire. Naturally, he ignored the email until he realized that the assignment came with a hefty payment of chocolate cookies. OK OK, and he likes that it is all about the sense of smell.
Check out the whole questionnaire by clicking below.
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June 1, 2012
breakfast
The Wordnik Word of the Day for June 1, 2012 is
curate's egg
http://www.wordnik.com/words/curate&#... egg
(noun) A thing which has good and bad parts. Chiefly British.
This term comes from a story in Punch, a British weekly magazine, about a curate who, having been served a bad egg by his bishop, said that parts of it were excellent.
This word of the day leads us to another piece of news, both British, and about something which has good and bad parts ...
May 31, 2012
YOU 'AVE TO STOP THIS!
That's right, as you probably guessed, that means that tomorrow is the official UK publishing date of YOU HAVE TO STOP THIS, the fifth book you shouldn't be reading.
Continue to ignore it, but now in the Queen's English.
