mottram + words   11

The Nation - Who You Callin’ a Maverick? - NYTimes.com
A member of the Maverick family coined the word 'gobbledegook'. Insert your own McCain/Palin joke here.
language  words 
october 2008 by mottram
Ironic Sans: Thsrs - The Shorter Thesaurus
Enter a long word, get a shorter synonym. You know, for Twitter.
english  funny  language  thesaurus  words  synonyms 
july 2008 by mottram
coolfabulous - Google Search
Seems I'm pretty much the only person who uses this handy term for things that are both cool and fabulous.
words  coolfabulous 
april 2007 by mottram
A.Word.A.Day -- chatoyant
AWAD is on a roll at the moment.
words 
january 2007 by mottram
Favorite untranslatable words? | Ask MetaFilter
I have bad l'appelle d'vide, myself, and hygge is just lovely.
words  language  translation 
february 2005 by mottram
Merriam-Webster Online
Based on online lookups at Merriam-Webster, the #1 word of the year is... blog! I'll still be calling them reverse-chronologically ordered frequently updated personal homepages though. Sounds nicer.
dictionaries  news  weblogs  words 
december 2004 by mottram

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