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Posted by beardedlady on May 31, 2002, at 4:50:19

In reply to ...you mean phoarscite? » beardedlady, posted by IsoM on May 31, 2002, at 2:23:18

IsoM:
I, too, read the dictionary. My NY resolution this year was to read six pages a day, but it got old quickly. It's very hard to read that much when there's no juicy story. But I am always turning to a page at random and picking a word I've never heard. And I scour them for new words to play my in-class Balderdash.
My favorites, currently, are Zarf (a holder for a handle-less coffee cup--those mini pads, I would imagine!), Xyster (a bone-cutting instrument, which many actually guess), and Omphaloskepsis (an old one meaning contemplation of the navel). I like the sounds of these words.
Yours in lexophilia,
beardy
P.S. I had queried several literary magazines about an article comparing the top four dictionaries (M-W, Oxford, Random House, and American Heritage), but no takers so far (I haven't given up). It was called "Lexophilia: Get Thee to a Dictionary."

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Beire-dei, have your heard of this word? IsoM 5/30/02
prospicience » IsoM beardedlady 5/30/02
that would be F-O-R-E-S-I-G-H-T, of course. » IsoM beardedlady 5/30/02
Re: Beardy - she caught you! what a world! (nm) » beardedlady wendy b. 5/30/02
...you mean phoarscite? » beardedlady IsoM 5/31/02
4 cite » IsoM beardedlady 5/31/02
I caught me. » wendy b. beardedlady 5/31/02

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