This week's theme: blend words. vespiary (VES-pee-er-ee) noun
A nest or colony of wasps. [Blend of Latin vespa (wasp) and apiary (a place where bees are kept).] Italian scooter company Piaggio named their first product Vespa because they felt it looked and perhaps sounded like a wasp. -Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org) "[William Bullitt] had moved into Charles Bedaux's Château de Candé, a perfect vespiary of Nazi spies and collaborators." Charles Higham; The Duchess of Windsor: The Secret Life; John Wiley & Sons; 2004. Sponsored by: Pimsleur Language courses, proven fast and effective. Save 10% with coupon AWADSP06 at checkout. http://awad.pimsleurdirect.com Always find the right word with the Visual Thesaurus. Wordsmith readers save 10%. Try it free! http://www.visualthesaurus.com/?code=4p7&ad=aw ............................................................................ There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration. -Andrew Carnegie, industrialist (1835-1919) Why bother studying American dialects? Join us in an online chat with Joan Hall, chief editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English. Tue, Nov 14, 2006, 6 pm Pacific (GMT -8) at http://wordsmith.org/chat Remove, change address, gift subs: http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscriber.html Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/vespiary.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/vespiary.ram Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/vespiary.html This message was sent to "[email protected]".
