Archive for March, 2010
Recently saw a spam subject line that I thought said "Succeed in a truth economy." Which brought all sorts of interesting science fictional ideas to mind. Until I saw that...
Sometime around the beginning of March, I came across the word theophory, which Wikipedia says is "the practice of embedding the name of a god or a deity in, usually,...
Yet another in the long list of dictionaries/glossaries available online: a Publishing Dictionary, in which literary agent Jessica Faust provides definitions of a few dozen publishing-related terms....
According to the Dictionary of Occupational Titles, a manugrapher's job is to trace and paint advertising material, including lettering. Which is pretty much what one might expect from the roots...
The alphabet game involves trying to find a written instance of each letter of the alphabet while traveling by car. Sometimes the rules require that the letters appear only on...
Recently encountered an annotated transcription of a podcast from 2007 covering a wide variety of Australian slang terms....
Recently happened across two useful online glossaries, probably while editing a story: Glossary of military terms and slang from the Vietnam War. Wiktionary's Glossary of military slang....
MW10 says that inanition is (among other definitions) "the exhausted condition that results from lack of food and water." Useful word! Seems like the adjective form should be "inane" (as...
Nice post from last month at HotCoffeeMississippi about various names for Islam forms of modest dress, including all the ones in the title of this entry. The BBC provides a...
According to Wikipedia, "terroir" is "the special characteristics that geography bestow[s] upon particular varieties" of wine, coffee, and tea, based on "the assumption that the land [where] the grapes [or...