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MARCH 13, 2009

Logophilia

Jesse Sheidlower Endangered Species A.Word.A.Dayvenn diagram

 

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Save the Words


Save the Words is an online Ouija board that brings dead nouns, verbs, and adjectives to life.

Each of the words you’ll find here was once a living, breathing part of our language. Roll your cursor over it, and it’ll cry out: “Over here!” or “Yo! Pick me!” Click, and you’ll see a succinct definition, an example sentence, and an invitation to use the word you’ve picked in your everyday conversation and correspondence. Some words are especially challenging: Good luck to anyone who chooses urette (it means “dried animal urine absorbed into chalky soil”). Others, like boreism (“behavior of a boring person”), are so utible (“useful”) you’ll wonder why they went away in the first place.

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