Words make swoon, especially when they’re chock-full of history and pop culture references. So my inner word nerd was jumping for joy when I stumbled upon Wordnik, which is “based on the principle that people learn words best by seeing them in context. We’ve collected more than 4 billion words of text (web pages, books, [...]
Categories: etymology, langauge, new words
Tagged: dictionary, etymology, word nerd, wordie, wordnik, words
I am allergic to coasters. my tables have suffered from this laziness, although, I would surely convert to a coaster craver if I had these lovely, lettered gems. These bamboo beauties are “four inches in diameter and set in Baskerville semibold.”
I would brew a nice pot of tea and set the delicate [...]
Categories: word nerd gift, words
Tagged: coaster, letters, typographic coaster, words
after some lively conversation with friends about my previous post’s word choice (hooray), I have another thought I’d like to share.
Interjections are accessories for a sentence. I would maybe even say that they are the word icing on the cake. That being said, today’s language has become highly abbreviated and interjections were the first to [...]
Categories: words
Tagged: conversation, hooray, interjection, language, words
There are some words that truly bring to a smile to my face, and “hooray” is definitely one of them. It not only carries a sense of joy with its meaning, but also with its pronunciation. Like a slice of lemon to a meal or the color red to a wall, “hooray” brightens any sentence.
Our [...]
Tagged: battle-cry, etymology, hooray, language, merriam webster, online etymology dictionary, words
Hallmark has been telling our nearest and dearest how much we love them, how old we think they are, or why we’re excited about the “insert name of event here” that they’re experiencing. But have you ever been able to share your love for a fellow word nerd in scrabble talk? Yeah, I didn’t think [...]
Categories: words
Tagged: bearpaw paper and crafts, cards, scrabble, words
When I think of concourses at an airport, magazine stands, food carts and colliding suitcases come to mind. Although, if you happen to be walking through Concourse J in the Miami International Airport, then your inner word nerd will be delighted to see phrases from the book The Everglades: River of Grass by Marjory Stoneman Douglas. [...]
Categories: words
Tagged: everglades, installation, miami international airport, river of grass, words
A rabbit is pulled from a hat, your card is instantly guessed, an object disappears from a hand and appears behind your ear, and a woman who was split in half is put back together. All magicians usually end the previous entertainment experiences with one memorable word, “abracadabra.” I never truly payed much attention to [...]
Tagged: abracadabra, aramaic, cabalistic, etymology, magic, magical, words
We all have a favorite word, or at least a word we use so much that our friends can’t wait to throw a thesaurus at us. So why not celebrate that favorite word in a non permanent way that you won’t regret in the morning (“bubba” in blue ink on your right arm doesn’t look [...]
Categories: etymology, wear your words, words
Tagged: brookadelphia, charm, etymology, necklace, words
I’ve been known to throw some slanguage around now and then, what can I say, I’m from Philly. I thoroughly enjoy scholarly pieces just as much as the pop culture blogs overflowing with the newly created words of the moment. So I thought I would start a weekly “sunday slanguage” post to spice up the [...]
Categories: etymology, sunday slanguage
Tagged: etymology, language, merriam webster, online etymology dictionary, slang, slanguage, words
The last “Wear your words” post was all about the infamous “t-shirt,” but this time I thought we would slip into or actually under something a little more comfortable, a fabulous blanket. The blanket that I am referring to is a truly special nighttime accessory, as it is composed of layers of fabric that can [...]
Categories: etymology, wear your words, words
Tagged: bedtime story, platform 10, royal college of art, wear your words, words
Some people intently watch ESPN to see which players will be drafted to their favorite teams, while I anticipate the time when Merriam-Webster adds new words to the dictionary (I am an utter word nerd and proud of it).
The last word party kicked off in 2006, when Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition was filled to [...]
Categories: new words
Tagged: dictionary, language, merriam webster, new words, words