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League of the Lexicon Oct 13, 2023

Part 2 in our series of World Word Records...
And in case you're wondering:
1) 'Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis' is a lung disease.
2) 'Scraunched' means 'crunched'.
3) 'Strengthed' means 'strived'.
4) 'Uncopyrightable' means, well, what you think.
5) 'Aegilops' is an ulcer in the eye. Or a type of grass.
6) 'Strengths' is the plural of 'strength'.
7) 'Euouae' was a term used in medieval music.

League of the Lexicon Oct 12, 2023

This one's for the lexicographers...

League of the Lexicon Oct 6, 2023

For those in need of distraction, here are some curiously useless world record-holding words. (I remain unconvinced about the existence of 'subbookkeepers', but you can't argue with a world record!)

League of the Lexicon Oct 5, 2023

League of the Lexicon Oct 4, 2023

Slang offers a gazillion ways to say you're drunk. Here are some of our favourites:
1/ Woofled.
2/ Bit by a barn weasel.
3/ Comboozelated.
4/ Dripping tight.
5) Full-cocked.
6) Banjaxed.
7) Had a full cargo.
8) Harry Honkers.
9) Snoozamorooed.
10) Well-bottled.
What do you say?

League of the Lexicon Oct 2, 2023

Feels like the right way to start the week.

League of the Lexicon Sep 29, 2023

Have you come across a 'squib' that's dry? A 'shod' neither 'rough' nor 'slip'? Can one 'wend' more than one's way? Does anyone do moderate 'dudgeon'? Can your 'fettle' be lousy, your 'shrift' long or your 'shebang' divided? Can only a tone be 'dulcet'?
I. Must. Know.

League of the Lexicon Sep 28, 2023

Bad day? Perhaps you're feeling let down by co-workers, or maybe life's getting on top of you. Whatever your woes, this selection of Shakespearean insults will reach the parts other insults fail to reach. See if you can include one in an email today. We guarantee it will make you feel better.
If you have any favourites you'd like to recommend, please share. As the title suggests, there'll be more...

More for word lovers at http://www.leagueofthelexicon.com.

League of the Lexicon Sep 27, 2023

This is a paean to printers' marks, emblems used by printers from the 15th century to identify and promote their work. This was graphic design before #graphicdesign.
Music by kind permission of the wonderful #PaulODette.

League of the Lexicon Sep 26, 2023

Happy birthday, T. S. Eliot. Born this day, 1888.
Here's an extract from Four Quartets, a work that still gives me shivers 30 years after I first studied it at school. (If you've ever wondered, T. S. is for Thomas Stearns.)
#TSEliot #Poet #Poetry #fourquartets