Showing posts with label dictionary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dictionary. Show all posts

Monday, October 13, 2008

285. Words on the Brink

Another bit of news--Words disappearing from dictionary.

Read about it here. Some of these words are roborant, imho!

I voted in the poll to save words, but some of the polling booths are already closing. If you want to save any of these words, better hurry over and vote.

I voted for words I thought would not have large followings, because I'd like to save all of the words, if that makes sense.

My choices:
Exuviate--to shed (a skin or similar outer covering)
Muliebrity--the condition of being a woman (because we know it's a condition!)
Olid--foul smelling (the only word on the list I actually knew).

Close seconds-the ones I would have voted for if I hadn't been trying to save them all:
Embrangle--to confuse or entangle
Fubsy--short and stout, squat
Skirr--a whirring or grating sound, as of the wings of birds in flight

And words for this year's NaNoWriMo effort:
Malison--a curse
Niddering--cowardly
Villipend--to treat or regard with contempt

I like them all, really!