shonky
Such a great sounding word, too. Shonky.
Archive for Specific Words
What’s the crack?
Is it pathetic Anglophilia if it's Irish?
Blag, Blagger, Blagging
Does the US need a version of this one? Or can we just use the Brits, but in a funny accent?
Word aversion
orthogonal
Mx
The other day, Mary Anne linked to an article that claimed that the new gender-neutral title “Mx” was being officially added to the OED. I'm not linking to that article...
because
Half the people on my Facebook friends list have linked to an article by Megan Garber in the Atlantic titled “English Has a New Preposition, Because Internet,” about the growing...
Most disappointing spam of the day
Spam subject line: Strange 11-Letter Word That Doubles Your Metabolism Wow! A strange word, a long word, and a word that has an effect on the real world, all in...
South Asia
Before I met Mary Anne, I had never heard the term “South Asia.” And I keep running into white Americans who either aren't familiar with the term or misinterpret it,...
Fancy words from the NY Times
Interesting blog entry from the New York Times about the words that readers look up most often using their website's dictionary function; there's a list of the top 50, arranged...