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Ah, the random shit you find on wikipedia.

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That’s what I call the sensation I get when I open a piece of fruit that has every outward appearance of being totally awesome only to discover that it is anything but. Examples of the dupe include a mouthwateringly inviting apple that turns out to be completely floury upon the moment of tooth-sink; an […]

Or as others would have it - “Putting your foot in your mouth”…
Which makes me a tarso-mandibulator…
Storm on the other hand is a wonderful dancer - ‘tarso-manipulator’.
A subtle but important distinction.
Here is a nice little article on office jargon I found on the BBC news website.

Isn’t ‘Jovian‘ just the coolest word? It sounds absolutely nothing like Jupiter at all…except they both start with ‘J’…
Example of use - “He was a jovial, Jovian sort of fellow; given that he had a prominent red spot in the middle of his rather large and bloated face (indeed, some say it could be […]

From Wikipedia…
In an example of semantic progression, Guy Fawkes’ name is also the origin of the word “guy” in the English language, particularly in American spoken English. The burning on 5th November of an effigy of Fawkes, known as a “guy”, led to the use of the word “guy” as a term for “a person […]

I don’t know if you’ve ever found yourself in the situation where you’ve said “Oh Man! How big a dork am I?”…Well to me that sounds (in a grammatical sense) like a perfectly reasonably thing to say, and to write…
My question is…what happens if more than one of us are being dorks…
“How big a dorks […]

Quaerere is latin for ‘to ask, to seek’ and is where the word ‘query’ is derived from…bet you didn’t know that…
I love the etymology of words. Quite plainly and simply it’s great to look at a word you’ve used for 21 years and go, ‘Huh, that’s where it comes from. I never thought […]

So, I was just thinking, if I stray from the right course or path in life (or any road for that matter), I deviate. Naturally enough, deviate comes from the late latin deviare — de + via (road).
Now, for me, deviate has a directionality - that is, I can only go one […]

Travelution (alt spelling Travolution) - n. , A resolution made within the context of an overseas trip during an apparent epiphanic moment or similar moment of clarity. Upon return to one’s original surrounds (i.e. home), it soon becomes apparent that said travelutions have no practicability whatsoever and, as such, are never enacted upon.

Retroflect, -ion, […]

This song came about as a result of my new found love of the word perspicacity (sister of perspecuity and perspicaciousness). I started mucking around with verses and synonyms and voila…this was the result.
The song was originally called Polonius - after the verbose and bumbling character in Hamlet who states ” Therefore, since Breuitie […]