If you love words, (which most readers here do), you might find it fun to take a few minutes and go to the Test Your Vocabulary website and do just that. The result reckons I know 32,500 words. I reckon some of my more literate friends and readers can do a lot better than that.
Here’s a post that gathers up fifteen words from non-English languages that have no direct single-word English equivalent. Examples: Iktsuarpok (Inuit) You know that feeling of anticipation when you’re waiting for someone to show up at your house and you keep going outside to see if they’re there yet? This is the word for it. …
My wife has taken to playing an online version of a game that looks a lot like Scrabble. For her and lovers of language this post from Geek Dad reveals some words which start with the letter ‘Q’ but aren’t followed by the letter ‘U’. The official scrabble list of words has undergone another update …
In an online catalogue that I was reading today two artists were described as being ‘neo-legendary.’ File that away under the ‘slow lingering death of the English language’ category.
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