Well heck. I have not been good with this Blog, have I? The fact is, I haven't received any significant Google Alerts (there are some because some websites and usernames use "epicaricacy," but big deal!). If any of my multitude of readers (ha!) sees the word used, please let me know!
I've been around and about, busy with work these days. I've got to get more balance into my life. Even Passover was pushed aside this year. Quite disgusting!
I am on my way to Malta today (for work), but I have brought some books to read. I have been enjoying a book about a good friend's travels, though it's a little anti-American. Maybe it's just how it comes out in his book. Let's face it, Americans are a bit insular when it comes to travel.
Looking forward to telling you about Malta!
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:
It wasn't meant to be anti-American. It wasn't until I read through the proof copy that I realised how easily it could be interpreted that way. For comparison try reading Paul Theroux's "The Island By The Sea" which, to me, came over as distinctly ant-British until all he was doing was vocalising things that I often thought myself about my own country.
that should say "until I realised that all he was doing"
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