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Lord Byron said, “Words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.” Language is indeed beautiful, and I will write about my love of words and poetry, including limericks and double dactyls. As the name of this Blog indicates, I will periodically comment on my favorite word. I hope my words will stimulate your thinking...and comments.
About Me
- Kalleh
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- There's not a lot about me, really. I am fairly mundane. I was raised on a farm in Wisconsin, but always loved the big city. I absolutely adore Chicago. We might not have that wonderful weather of California or the history of the east coast (or Europe) or beauty of mountains...but it's a fine city. While I've been in nursing education most of my adult life, a few years ago I became interested in words, language and linguistics. My husband and I started a Web site, Wordcraft (www.wordcraft.infopop.cc), and my pursuits of words and language have been uphill ever since. Love the people there, too. Oh, and I have 3 beautiful children whom I am very proud of. But let's get down to epicaricacy. Please talk to me here because I am definitely a social being! And thanks for coming!
Web sites
- American Dialect Society
- Anagram Server
- Double Dactyl
- Dr. Grammar
- Eggcorn Database
- Epicurious
- Etymology Online
- Examining the OED
- Free Rice
- German/English Words
- Grandiloquent Dictionary
- Hyperdictionary
- Jesse Sheidlower's Site
- Luciferous Logolepsy
- OEDILF
- Online Books
- Online Thesaurus
- Phrontistery
- Poetry Society of America
- Queen's English Society
- Shakespeare Online
- Silva Rhetoricae
- Take Our Word
- The Devil's Dictionary
- Tiscali Dictionary of Difficult Words
- Unusual Words
- Verbatim
- Verbivore
- William Shakespeare Elizabethan Dictionary
- Word Detective
- Wordcraft
- World Wide Words
- Worthless Word for the Day
Blogs I Find Interesting
- A Cuban in London
- Alan's Blog
- Bradshaw of the Future
- Caterwaulling
- epea pteroenta
- Fritinancy
- Glottopedia
- Is It Irony?
- jerrys-house
- Language Log
- Languagehat
- Lexiophiles
- Motivated Grammar
- Mr. Verb
- Nathan Bierma
- nurse connect
- Out of the Middens; Straight from the Heart
- The Hitting the Road Again Blues
- The Longest Words in the English Language
- The Sperical Influence
- Uncle Jazzbeau's Gallimaufrey
2 comments:
Well, here I am, just for the briefest of moments, but I had to return the favour.
Kalleh, on researching the subject for my weekly column on all matters linguistic, I asked a language scholar who teaches at Middlesex University about this word and he assured me that the OED carried a very old definition of the term, circa 19th century. True, I have not checked this fact, for my time is limited and I don't get paid to write the column (are you reading newspapers editors?) but I will investigate further. Thank you ever so much for your clarification :-)
Once a week I venture out into the realms of language. For more than a year I have writing continuously about the pleasures and vicissitudes of raising two childre in a bilingual household (hence the name of the column), my experiences with the ever-changingnature of the English language, which I did as a major in university in Havana and my dealings with the two other languages I speak, French and German. You're more than welcomed to join the forum. May I link your blog to mine, please?
Thanks for your visit.
Greetings from London.
Great to see you here, a cuban in london, and of course you can link my Blog to yours, though I must say mine is not that great. I am not a language expert, like many on Wordcraft, so I often struggle to come up with subjects. However, I do very much enjoy learning about words and language.
So you are saying that "epicaricacy" might have been in the OED circa 19th century? Wow. That would be quite a find, if it's true. Wordcraft had a gathering in England, and we met with John Simpson, the editor of the OED, for a beer. He seemed to indicate that the "epicaricacy" wasn't ever in the OED and most likely wouldn't be since it isn't in use. For example, while it is cited 8,280 times on Google, mostly the discussion is similar to yours...defining the word and telling a bit about its etymology. However, I could have misunderstood him or maybe he isn't aware of a very early citation.
I am jealous that you can speak French and German. You must be able to speak Spanish, too, right? You are smart to spend time with your children because they grow up so fast!
Thanks for your visit!
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