Found Words

12/08/2022

I agree with Macquarie on this one. Its odd jumble of letters roll easily off the tongue, appear balanced on reading, and sound almost musical on hearing it pronounced. Not to mention so very fitting for the times we find ourselves living in. I'd make a tattoo out of this one!
What makes a word beautiful to you?

The word means an intricate and perplexing state of affairs. It's one of our list of beautiful words. http://ow.ly/oInt30soINO

11/08/2022

Maybe not my favourite but definitely top 5!

29/05/2022

The English language is definitely messy. In these examples though, no tipfinger makes perfect sense; who has ever gone from A to B on their fingertips?

Grammar collection - https://shop.forreadingaddicts.co.uk/search?q=grammar

26/01/2022

The rule of ablaut reduplication!

01/06/2020

This word of the week is from the US but like all the other problems they have right now, Australia is just looking in a mirror that magnifies the same problems that exist here on our own scale.

We don’t call this “looting” because it is being done quietly in nice marbled office buildings in Washington and New York.We don’t call this “looting” because the looters wear designer suits and are very polite as they eagerly steal everything not nailed down to the floor

03/02/2019

13/01/2019

I remember reading about the removal (of these nature words) with a sinking heart. The metaphor was unmissable.

But there is hope: Remember our words and our love for the natural world, then let that momentum roll baby!

Thanks to Seed Vault for original share.

"The Lost Words" uses "spells" to conjure the birds, animals, and plants at risk of being forgotten.

17/12/2018

Have you heard ze news?

Trophy-hungry logophiles have always rushed to memorise hoards of vocabulary whenever the new list of permissible Scrabble words is published.

14/06/2018

Ghost words; the words that were never words...or were they?

This morning Susan Butler spoke to Adam Spencer about ghost words in dictionaries, that is, words which have crept in by mistake. The example was given of dord which appeared in Webster's New International Dictionary (second edition). The chemistry editor had written an entry for D or d, as a contra...