If people who love food and cooking shows are called 'foodies', then it follows that those who love words are called 'wordies'.
For all you wordies... you know who you are:
Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages by Ammon Shea
"From abluvion to zyxt - a year long account of reading the Oxford English Dictionary."
Zyxt sounds like a great word to use on Scrabble.
I'll keep my eyes open for this book.
I'm hearing the crickets chirping... I thought there'd be lots more wordies out there.
ReplyDeleteSo... What's a zyxt?
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine retaining much of reading the OED. Yikes!
Y'know, my Grandma ALWAYS kicks my butt at Scrabble. I think she's cheating. ;)
ReplyDeletecheck out
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on my blogroll. The Professor is a wordy's wordy.
brooke: zyxt is defined as:
ReplyDelete(obsolete, Kentish) second-person singular past tense of to see.
***more cricket chirp***
This is a book I'd check out from the library because it's a fascinating read, but not something on which I'd like to blow much money.
brooke: That is so cool. Reminds me of my grandma who was sharp as a tack up until the end of her life. I still miss her.
ReplyDeletedmarks: Thanks. I enjoy reading about other wordies.
woooooooordies..cute!:)
ReplyDeleteIf it's all the same I'll stick with being a foodie!!!
ReplyDeletewoman: It was a logical progression.
ReplyDeletepapa frank: It's up to you, but
you know, you can be both like me.
OH JOY!
ReplyDeletefor the verbosity in all of us!
I knew a guy in high school who was freaky smart.
ReplyDeleteHe was a very odd person and did not have many friends. I befriended him, and he was hard to talk with. He was not very socially normal. I remember him telling me once that he enjoyed reading the dictionary in his spare time.
I've often wondered what became of him. I know he had the brains to make millions, but I wonder if he ever acquired better social skills...
Hmmm....
I'm a foodie and a wordie... but more of a foodie.
I read the dictionary, and I wish I had a better one, so I guess I'm a wordie.
ReplyDeleteI covet a dictionary my dad owns, which is HUGE. And, to add to it's appeal, not only does it have a zillion pages, but the print is very small. So small you have to read it with a magnifying lens. If there's only one thing he leaves me when he passes (may it be 100 years from now) I hope it's that dictionary. I love the lengthy etymologies in those big dictionaries.
I'll have to look for the book you mention.
Speaking of zyxt, the word I have to type to post this is zntznlfuf.
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