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March 2, 2010

Word Sex

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fungible



Of course, Scott Adams owns Dilbert.

February 22, 2010

Word Sex

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cachectic

Last summer, my father passed away from metastatic non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. In essence, the cancer attached itself to his organs and instead of destroying them, ate off of them, taking away his energy a little more every day. This is word for that.

February 14, 2010

Word Sex

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obstreperous

I read this work in Dexter by Design, which I will excuse myself now by saying that while I have read all the “Dexter” novels, a co-worker lent them to me. There’s nothing wrong with the novels, but there’s also not much right about them. However, I’m a little tired of books that have 50+ characters and cross the span of several hundred years. I’m saga’d-out. “Dexter” is a nice departure from all that.

Word Sex

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Umweltverschmutzung

Because that’s just where I am today.

February 12, 2010

Word Sex

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prolapse

After seeing the following video on my favorite gay blog Joe.My.God





with New Hampshire state Representitive Nancy Elliott saying that same-sex marriage should be repealed because “we’re talking about taking the penis of a man and putting it in the rectum of another man and wriggling it around in excrement. And you have to think, would I want that to be done to ME?”, I read with glee Jeffrey’s response


O.M.F.G. Get out of our bedrooms, you stupid, bleeding cunt!

And HELL YES, I want my husband’s cock up my ass. As for the wiggling around part, maybe YOU are loose enough for that, but don’t project your own near-prolapse on the rest of us, honey.

*hairtoss*

which is quite the image.

February 8, 2010

Word Sex

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dormer

Weeks ago, I got a wild hair and decided to have my considerable but useless attic space made into an upper den accessible from the master bedroom. However, when trying to explain to a co-worker about “windows that stick out”, I could not for the life of me remember what they’re called. “Dormers.” They’re called “dormers.” I’m still picturing a spiral staircase going from my bedroom to a private den all my own where I can look out on the dead lawn in the middle of summer. Of course, I live alone, so how much more space and/or privacy do I need? And what if the contractors found my porn?

February 6, 2010

Word Sex

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exonumia

I have no story about this word other than it’s completely new to me and fun to say.

February 5, 2010

Word Sex

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space cookies

I can’t stop listening to the soundtrack for “Bare: a Rock Opera” mostly because of how evocative the story is (gay boys at a Catholic boarding high school. Yeah. Really, has anything else in my life defined and informed me more than this?), but also because (Lord help me for saying this) the songs are so catchy. “Space cookies” comes from the song “Birthday, Bitch!”

February 4, 2010

Word Sex

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kvell

I have a fascination for Yiddish and all things Jewish. All my friends know that. I’ve been accused of being a matzo queen, though I think I just prefer non-white guys. “Kvell” is one of those words I like to drop into conversation (along with “schmutz” and “schtupp” and “fakakta“). I heard this word used last night during a re-run of “House”. House said he kvelled when Cameron finally came to accept that everybody lies. I think I’ll really have arrived when I use “fartatshish” (“sloppy”) correctly in a sentence.

February 2, 2010

Word Sex

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abattoir

There is apparently a chophouse in Atlanta called “Abattoir” that serves guests “the use of locally-raised proteins to produce high-quality, affordable food.” I admire how up-front they are about the name being from the French for “slaughterhouse”, but I really enjoy how they refer to meat as “protein”. Thanks, “Top Chef”! You’ve done for meat what “open concept” has done for real estate.

February 1, 2010

Word Sex

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heigth

I’ve been using this word for ages, and tonight in an email to my brother about the dimensions of a new header he’s making for me (!!!) spellcheck kept marking it as wrong. I finally had to look it up, and found out there is no such word. Maybe it’s a Northeastern thing, like perogie and Lake Effect Snow.

January 29, 2010

Word Sex

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trews

I’ve been reading The Smart Aleck’s Guide to American History and “trews” came up in a joke about the Founding Fathers and “Yankee Doodle”.

January 27, 2010

Word Sex

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urine scald

I recently adopted a special needs cat named Andy, who, because of a dog attack, is unable to posture correctly to go potty. The vet warned me to keep him clean in order to avoid urine scald.

January 26, 2010

Word Sex

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EMDR

A friend of mine mentioned this to me a few months ago. To say anymore would be breaking a confidence.

January 23, 2010

Word Sex

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Alien space bats

I found this word while trying desperately to remember the fancy name for the historical fiction genre. I’m pretty sure it starts with “meta” (but, these days, what doesn’t?). I did come across “uchronia“, but that wasn’t the exact word I wanted. Still pretty cool, though.

January 21, 2010

Word Sex

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Supersessionism

In my continuing fascination for all things God, I came across this word the other day. For being such a common topic of discussion, I’m surprised no one ever uses this word. Same with “theodicy“.

Word Sex

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inappentence

I came across this word while researching why my cat is refusing to eat. It sounds much more urgent than “loss of appetite”.

January 19, 2010

Word Sex

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rime

This word makes me think of a pauper’s grave, bodies covered in quicklime.

January 18, 2010

Word Sex

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Bass-O-Matic

This was said tonight by a competitor on Food Network’s “Chopped”. She used it as part of her justification as to why she hand-mixed a salad after slicing her finger with a knife. “It wasn’t all Bass-o-matic,” she said. I still wouldn’t have eaten her salad if God himself told me she was DDF/HIV-/certified cootie-free.

January 14, 2010

Word Sex

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hove

Another one from The Road.

January 13, 2010

Word Sex

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crozzle

I read this word in The Road:

The days sloughed past uncounted and uncalendared. Along the interstate in the distance long lines of charred and rusting cars. The raw rims of the wheels sitting in a stiff gray sludge of melted rubber, in blackened rings of wire. The incinerate corpses shrunk to the size of a child and propped on the bare springs of the seats. Ten thousand dreams ensepulchred within their crozzled hearts. They went on. Treading the dead world under like rats on a wheel. The nights dead still and deader black. So cold. They talked hardly at all. He coughed all the time and the boy watched him spitting blood. Slumping along. Filthy, ragged, hopeless. He’d stop and lean on the cart and the boy would go on and then stop and look back and he would raise his weeping eyes and see him standing their in the road looking back at him from some unimaginable future, glowing in that waste like a tabernacle.

January 4, 2010

“The Power of English compels thee!”

by @ 1:45 pm. Filed under 2010, English grammar, language, word sex


Lake Superior State University published its annual list of “Banished Words” that meet the institute’s qualifications of “Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness.”

Recipients of the honor of being shuffled out the lexicon door are


Of course, “teachable moment” holds a special place in my heart, by which I mean “stuffed in the Devil’s mouth next to Judas Iscariot”. I do, however, like the recently-promoted-to-verb “friend” as I believe most words could become verbs if we encouragemented it.

November 27, 2009

Word sex

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surrender monkey

November 21, 2009

Word sex

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hammerspace

October 15, 2009

Word Sex

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concern troll

October 13, 2009

Word Sex

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fantabulation

October 5, 2009

Word Sex

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badinage

September 23, 2009

Word Sex

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ignivomous

September 20, 2009

Word Sex

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presenteeism

September 19, 2009

Word Sex

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Jante Law

September 13, 2009

Word Sex

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lebensmüde

September 9, 2009

Word Sex

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weltschmerz

September 5, 2009

Word Sex

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adelphopoiesis

September 3, 2009

Word Sex

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henotheism

September 1, 2009

Word Sex

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panentheism

August 27, 2009

Word Sex

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“low hanging fruit”

August 17, 2009

Word Sex: The Historical Edition

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Cadaver Synod

August 11, 2009

Word Sex

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look askance at

July 29, 2009

Word Sex

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yar

July 20, 2009

Word Sex

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maquillage

July 3, 2009

Word Sex Death Match

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salsa vs. relish vs. chow-chow vs. chutney

June 26, 2009

Word Sex

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defecation reflex

June 20, 2009

Word Sex

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adit

June 11, 2009

Word Sex

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alar

May 23, 2009

Word Sex

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bugbear

May 20, 2009

Word Sex

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clepsydra

April 29, 2009

Word Sex: The Home Edition

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jaunty purse

April 22, 2009

Word Sex Death Match

by @ 1:35 pm. Filed under word sex


creole vs. cajun vs. pidgin

April 19, 2009

Word Sex Death Match

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elegy vs. eulogy

April 17, 2009

Word Sex

by @ 6:59 am. Filed under word sex


Poe’s Law

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