Do all y’all subscribe to a Word of the Day? Which one?\r\n
My favorite is the OED, available for free as an RSS feed<\/a> or by email (from The Oxford English Dictionary homepage<\/a>. I like it in part because they often chose obscure, obsolete or regional words, quite often ones I have never heard of, and I can read the entire OED entry, with the etymology and quotations and pronunciation recording and whatnot. Sometimes the entry can lead me to a different word of even greater awesomeness. F’r’ex, today’s (in honor of Valentine’s, I assume) is lovewende<\/a>, which is pretty good, but the suffix links to wrongwende<\/a>, which is a lovely<\/i> word.\r\n I also subscribe to the Wordsmith<\/a> A.Word.A.Day, which less frequently has utterly awesome words (in my opinion) but usually has an interesting weekly theme or even a puzzle. This week’s theme is People who became verbs<\/i> and today’s word is hooverize<\/a>, which evidently is entirely different from hoover<\/i> as a verb, and a thing I did not know before today<\/a>.\r\n There are plenty of other ones that may be more to your taste! Wordnik<\/a> glories in obscure words; today’s is peart<\/i>. Merriam-Webster’s<\/a> has a podcast; today’s is frolic<\/i>. Dictionary.com<\/a> aims for topicality; today’s is ship<\/i> (in the fanfic use of the term). The New York Times<\/a> version (in association with vocabulary.com) has a link to a recent article in which the word appears and a multiple-choice question about its usage; today’s is chaplain<\/i>. Wiktionary<\/a>’s has the ability to see and nominate future days’ words; today’s is philematology<\/i>. The Oxford Living Dictionaries<\/a> (different from the OED) aims for the living language; today’s is truthiness<\/i>. The Haggard Hawks<\/a> site tweets out several obscure words every day; today’s official word is luresome<\/i>. There’s a specifically Grandiloquent Word<\/a> on Facebook; today’s is billet-doux<\/i>.\r\n There are probably dozens more (in English\u2014hundreds in other languages, I’m sure) that I’m missing. Is there a particularly clever or informative one? What’s the word on the street?\r\n Thanks, There should probably be a word for the diminishing marginal utility of following further feeds on the same topics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dictionaries","category-resources"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17052"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17059,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17052\/revisions\/17059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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![today<\/a>.\r\nThere are plenty of other ones that may be more to your taste! Wordnik<\/a> glories in obscure words; today’s is peart<\/i>. Merriam-Webster’s<\/a> has a podcast; today’s is frolic<\/i>. Dictionary.com<\/a> aims for topicality; today’s is ship<\/i> (in the fanfic use of the term). The New York Times<\/a> version (in association with vocabulary.com) has a link to a recent article in which the word appears and a multiple-choice question about its usage; today’s is chaplain<\/i>. Wiktionary<\/a>’s has the ability to see and nominate future days’ words; today’s is philematology<\/i>. The Oxford Living Dictionaries<\/a> (different from the OED) aims for the living language; today’s is truthiness<\/i>. The Haggard Hawks<\/a> site tweets out several obscure words every day; today’s official word is luresome<\/i>. There’s a specifically Grandiloquent Word<\/a> on Facebook; today’s is billet-doux<\/i>.\r\nThere are probably dozens more (in English\u2014hundreds in other languages, I’m sure) that I’m missing. Is there a particularly clever or informative one? What’s the word on the street?\r\nThanks,-Ed.\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There should probably be a word for the diminishing marginal utility of following further feeds on the same topics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dictionaries","category-resources"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17052"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17059,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17052\/revisions\/17059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/scontent.fijd1-1.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/16711660_10155166173012994_7350472640503102544_n.jpg?oh=868c360f6f53572dfc3f0b2cb080c900&oe=5B12CD9C\"){kind=link}