AWADmail Issue 284
Dec 9, 2007
A Compendium of Feedback on the Words in A.Word.A.Day
and Other Interesting Tidbits about Words and Languages
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From: Anu Garg (words wordsmith.org)
Subject: Interesting stories from the net
At a Loss for Words:
http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/index_feature.html
National Language:
http://xkcd.com/84/
Words of the Year:
Locavore:
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/13/oxfords-word-of-the-year-and-runners-up/
Sterbetourismus:
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/front/detail/Death_tourism_tops_Swiss_word_list.html?siteSect=105&sid=8501442&cKey=1197014609000&ty=st
http://tinyurl.com/38bn8x
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From: Gordon Tully (gordon.tully gmail.com)
Subject: Re: A.Word.A.Day--serotine
Refer: http://wordsmith.org/words/serotine.html
The word immediately calls to mind a patent "medicine" sold just after the
2nd World War in the U.S., called "Serutan", which is "natures" spelled
backward. It was advertised as a pick-me-up, and was very popular with old
people. As well it might be: it contained a hefty amount of grain alcohol.
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From: Israel P (israelp pikholz.org)
Subject: Ree: A.Word.A.Day--superficies
Refer: http://wordsmith.org/words/superficies.html
Faster than a speeding mullet.
More powerful than a loco killer whale
Able to leap tall white sharks with a single bound.
Look, down in the water, not a bird, not a plane, it's
> superficies (soo-puhr-FISH-ee-eez) noun
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From: Dee Sugar (zeess aol.com)
Subject: Words to the Why's?
Words are my wings,... and fueled by you
My world's become smaller; easier to view.
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When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language
correctly, -- as that a sentence must never end with a participle, -- and
perceive how implicitly even the learned obey it, I think -- Any fool can make
a rule And every fool will mind it. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and
author (1817-1862)
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