Deborah Edwards-OñoroHappy 32nd anniversary for Wordsmith.org!
Today's A Word A Day:
windbag - a person who talks pompously or excessively.
Today's A Word A Day,
trialogue: a discussion in which three parties participate.
This week's A Word A Day theme:
"There’s a word for it.
When power concentrates, language bends, doubt spreads, joy fades, and pressure mounts, the dictionary raises its hand.
Naming the chaos won’t fix it, but it does give us a shared vocabulary, which is sometimes the first form of resistance."
Today's word: despotocracy.
I love learning something new from A Word A Day:
"Zucchini is in the etymology, but etymology is not destiny.
These days zoodle often means any vegetable noodle, even when no zucchini is involved.
If that bothers you, feel free to say swoodles (sweet potato), coodles (cucumber), or broodles (broccoli).
Just don’t let the terminology spiral out of control, or you might end up with an impasta on your plate."
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice. -Jerry Coyne, biology professor (b. 30 Dec 1949)
Today's A Word A Day: opsomaniac.
Not a word I've ever used.
But I know that craving for a particular food.
Preserve & increase beauty...Quoted in today's #AWordADay :
'Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.' ~Susan Sontag
(Time again to reread Illness as a Metaphor)
Today's Word A Day is gallio, named after Gallio.
Not to be confused with Gallileo.
The theme for this week's words are epynyms: words named after people.
And how rare it is for that to happen.
Though it's possible U.S. Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh will have an epynym named after him, given his written October 2025 opinion.
And it won't be a positive legacy.