The word of the day* for February 5, 2007 is “sesquipedalia” — noun plural : very long words.
OK, I admit that I am not the world’s best Scrabble player. I’m also not the nicest. I will call a word I think is incorrect. One of the fun things about the game is that my husband will make up words. I won’t say he cheats, but I think the challenged player ought to define the word when challenged before the challenger looks the word up in the dictionary. How Lloyd can get the “q” and the “x” and use them to spell a seven letter word across the triple word square consistently, I’ll never know.
The worst argument we have had in our entire married life was over a game of Scrabble. A friend happened to come over just as we were at the outskirts of fist city. He made us put the game away—on the top shelf of the closet.
The quote† for today is from Wallace Stevens (1879–1955), “Variations on a Summer Day”:
Words add to the senses. The words for the dazzle
Of mica, the dithering of grass,
The Arachne integument of dead trees,
Are the eye grown larger, more intense.
;^) Jan
* The definition is from either Merriam-Webster Online, 10th Edition or The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition and is used by permission.
† The quote is from either Bartleby: Great Books on Line or The Quotation Pages and is used by permission.
P.S.: Comments and word requests are welcome.
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