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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
9 comments:
't bet on it. Spambots are automatic that don't care if you get zero hits or a million.
Two hours it took me to clean my blog comments yesterday and I don't get many more hits than you.
Don't know what happened there. That should read "Don't bet on it"
The captcha you use should help keep the bots at bay.
But mostly I just wanted to say that I read you, but am usually too lazy to comment.
Well, thank you, Bob and Cat. I do have 2 readers! I am mostly kidding, though. Still...a little spam would make me feel important!
I've just stumbled across your blog. Ordinarily I wouldn't comment, but you seem lonely...
So lonely! Thank you!
Re: not enough readers, I know the feeling.
Re: spam, a lot of spammers try to spam me, but on my Wordpress blog it's filtered automatically and I hardly ever have to deal with it.
For some reason, the post that gets the most persistent attacks from spammers is one I wrote about my handwriting back in 2006.
Well, Outerhoard, that's a very nice Blog. And I loved that 2006 entry!
I have a question. What do people do to find other Blogs? I should probably do more of that.
How I Found Your Blog
(A true story by Adrian Morgan)
Once upon a time I only read one language blog, and that was Language Log. But sometimes I experienced a craving for more language blogs, so I decided to try reading some of the blogs on Language Log's blogroll.
Many of those blogs were very good, and so whenever I felt the craving for more language blogs, I would go to Language Log's blogroll and find something to click on. But not all of them were of interest to me, and moreover, some of the links were out of date.
And so I decided that I should have my very own list of language blogs to read, instead of relying on someone else's blogroll, and embarked upon a quest in order to find such a list.
Starting with Language Log's blogroll, I appointed the very best of its blogs to be on my list. Then, fearing that there might be some good language blogs out there that aren't on Language Log's blogroll at all, I browsed the blogrolls of the blogs on Language Log's blogroll to see what else I could find.
One of the blogs on the blogroll of at least one blog on the blogroll of Language Log was a little blog called Friends of Epicaricacy. This turned out to be rather well written, and a good read overall.
So I put it on my list and everyone lived happily ever after. (Well, obviously not everyone, or else you'd have to choose another name for the blog.)
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