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March 17, 2004

New Words and Phrases to mend! The Wordspy is dedicated to lexpionage or "the sleuthing of new words and phrases", and is a must for word freaks, writers, and those who relish the byways and new coinages of the English language.
via Michael Quinion's World Wide Words newsletter, which also comes highly recommended.

posted by beeswacky at 03:06AM UTC [trackback] (9 comments total)

this is a fun link- good find!

posted by ambrosia at 03:31AM UTC on March 17, 2004

What? no skeet skeet skeet?

posted by forksclovetofu at 07:39AM UTC on March 17, 2004

Well, Mamma don't 'low no skeet shooting on the premises. And Mamma don't 'low no skat singing, either, it would seem, forky, alas.

posted by beeswacky at 08:48AM UTC on March 17, 2004

Ah, beeswacky
Once again, you make me swoon!

Great link

posted by BlueHorse at 09:29AM UTC on March 17, 2004

It's not complete: "igry" is missing.

posted by tracicle at 10:39AM UTC on March 17, 2004

I've been on the mailing list for about nine months now. New words get sent out Tues. through Fri.

posted by The Onanist at 01:56PM UTC on March 17, 2004

broccoflower (BRAWK.uh.flow.ur) n. A cross between broccoli and cauliflower. Also: brocco-flower. Now that's what I call a Frankenstein vegetable.

posted by Plegmund at 02:50PM UTC on March 17, 2004

This is wonderful! Thanks beeswacky.

posted by Shep at 11:33PM UTC on March 17, 2004

Michael Quinion of World Wide Word fame, is now doing a column for The Telegraoh.

And one of the items in the first one is "How the Bee Got His Knees". Heh. Via woods lot

posted by beeswacky at 03:46AM UTC on June 09, 2004

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