"That's a great deal to make one word mean," Alice said in a thoughtful tone. "When I make a word do a lot of work like that," said Humpty Dumpty, "I always pay it extra."

Monday, 6 September 2010

Abbozzo

   An abbozzo is a preliminary sketch, rough drawing or early model.

Sunday, 5 September 2010

Jentacular

   
Jentacular means of or pertaining to a breakfast taken early in the morning, or immediately on getting up.

Saturday, 4 September 2010

Agraffe

 


An agraffe is a clasp consisting of a hook which fastens on to a ring; the term is also used for a certain piano part and for the wire that holds the cork in a champagne bottle.

Friday, 3 September 2010

Brontide

   
Brontide is long, low, rumbling thunder. The term is also used for low, rumbling thunderlike sounds of short duration not originating from thunderstorms but believed to be of seismic origin.

Thursday, 2 September 2010

Blandiloquence

   
Blandiloquence is mild, flattering speech.

Wednesday, 1 September 2010

Hagiographer

   
A hagiographer is the author of a worshipful or idealizing biography; especially used for those writing about saints. The study of saints is called hagiography.

An autohagiographer is someone who writes sumgly about their own achievments.

Guggenheim

 
Guggenheim is a word game.

The Rules of Guggenheim

Players choose a set of five different categories; for example - places, girl's names, vegetables, cars and sports.

Then they choose a word of five or six letters; e.g. PRAISE.

Each player then has to provide a word for each category starting with each letter of the target word.




Scoring is either one point for each word provided or one point for each word no-one else fills in that space for, each blank counting minus 1 point.

Tuesday, 31 August 2010

Leucippotomy

 

Leucippotomy is the art of carving white horses in chalk upland areas, particularly as practiced in southern England.

Sunday, 29 August 2010

Adoxography

 
Adoxography is fine writing in praise of trivial, minor or base subjects; much practised by lawyers at our expense.

Orthography

   
Orthography is the accepted way of spelling and writing words.