I love Radiolab’s podcasts, and I especially love this one. I’ve listened to it several times, and each time it fills me with a sense…
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Vest-Pocket Vocabulary Pleonas’tic, adj. containing unnecessary words. Word in the Wild: Say what you will about Aunt Vera’s cell phone addiction, but I still prefer…
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Gonna catch a big one! For as long as I can remember I’ve been completely fascinated by lexicography. I remember the second time* I went…
Well, it’s been a diuturnity since I last posted, but the radio silence it finally over. School is now out forever (or at least until I get the itch to take another class), and I”m glad to be blogging again. So without further ado here’s this week’s Vest-Pocket Vocabulary, which is all about radio silence.
Biblioma′nia, n. a rage for curious books.
Word in the Wild: Recent studies show that readers of the Word Blog suffer disproportionately from bibliomania.