Oct 26th, 2009
Help save the words!
Oxford Fajar (a subsidiary of Oxford University Press) has launched a campaign called Save the Words.
“Each year hundreds of words are dropped from the English language. . . . Today 90% of everything we write is communicated by only 7,000 words. You can change all that. Help save the words!”
There’s a section where you can adopt a word, complete with a pledge to use that word as often as possible. You can search for a particular word or have one randomly generated for you. I chose the latter option, and as soon as I saw the usage example I knew I had found my word:*
teterrimous
adj.
most foul“The ninja inadvertently announced his presence when he let out a most teterrimous fart.”
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*Because ninjas are cool and butt-related humor is hilarious.
