Have you ever opened a dictionary to look up a word, only to find yourself distracted by another word on the page? The definition of that word steers you to yet another, some two hundred pages ahead, and before you know it your fingers are cavorting as if in a random dance on the leaves of the lexicon.
This week's words in AWAD are chosen by following precisely that route. I think Brownian movement (yes, that's an eponym you may like to look up) is the best way to describes what happens when a linguaphile casually opens a dictionary. omnifarious (om-ni-FAR-ee-uhs) adjective Of all kinds or sorts. [From Late Latin omnifarius, from Latin omni- (all) + -farius.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=omnifarious -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "I am having an affair. My wife knows about it. How could she not, considering all the afternoons I'm away from home, working at satisfying my extracurricular passion? From all this I experience emotions quite omnifarious, from joy to anger to frustration to deep love. And it's been going on for 30 years. It's golf I'm talking about." Hubert Mizell; Only One Sport is Worthy of Undying Love; St. Petersburg Times (Florida); Aug 16, 1988. Sponsors' messages: Subscribe to http://delanceyplace.com -- a carefully selected non-fiction book excerpt free to your email each day. It's the thinking person's daily quote. Perfect your French, German, Italian or Spanish with Champs-Elysees audio magazines, the final step to fluency! http://ads.champs-elysees.com/wsmith5 ............................................................................ For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions. -Michel De Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592) Discuss this week's words on our bulletin board: http://wordsmith.org/board Remove, change address, gift subs: http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscriber.html Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/omnifarious.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/omnifarious.ram Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/omnifarious.html This message was sent to "[email protected]".
