Wednesday, September 17, 2008

One good thing leads to another

I signed up for the Moot e-mail, and received a confirmation reply with a link to another terrific word site: http://odlt.org/
Apparently the MooTguy (as he calls himself) set up this Online Dictionary of Language Terminology which gives, as the site proclaims, "concise explanations of the words that English speakers use to talk about the English language". I wandered around for a bit and found words like aphaeresis, paraprosdokian and glossopoeia.

It might be on the site, but I did not see a word meaning "evil giggle". You will just have to check out the website and imagine mine.

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