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Fun with pronunciation

From online photo guru Ken Rockwell:

Can you see it? Can you see the black pip just on the right side of the point-spread of the bright dot? The dot is the evening star and planet Uranus, pronounced “your anus.” (Some humorless science teachers tired of hearing the joke about the starship Enterprise being like toilet paper because it flew around Uranus looking for Klingons, and these dull sorts now try to teach kids to mispronounce Uranus as “urine us,” which is still pretty funny.)

Yes, it is still pretty funny.

I’m still alive.

Word of the day: onomastics.

Words mean things

Once Dubya is finally safely tucked away in Crawford next January, can we please scrub the word “Homeland” from our national vocabulary? Please? It’s creepy and exemplifies everything that’s wrong with the current administration. It’s fascist, xenophobic, authoritarian, jingoistic and anti-intellectual all at the same time – quite a feat, really.

Get rid of it.

Word of the Day

emolument

Today’s word of the day comes courtesy FreeRice.com, a cool site where your answers to vocabulary questions help fight world hunger. Give it a try.



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