OED Word of the Day
Forget about Reader’s Digest’s Word Power. You can now increase your vocabulary through the online OED emailing you a word of the day. Today’s word is twelve-incher. I didn’t even know that was a word, but I think I could have figured out what it meant. Apparently O. Henry was the first to use it in print.
Merriam Webster word of the day from a few days ago: septentrionic. I’m glad a fellow logophile is spreading an intelligible appropriation of the English language.
Have you read “The Professor and the Madman: The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary”? Its a great rainy afternoon read - and a fascinating one at that!
Comment by Paul Roberts — March 15, 2006 @ 9:50 pm