Dear Niall.
What is your favourite word? Mine is "lucubration," which means the act of studying by candlelight, at night. Pretty sweet, right?
And no, before you lambast me: it's entirely coincidental that "lucubration" so happens to be today's word of the day on dictionary.com.
Vouchsafing my regards, "vocabnazi"
That's what she said!
Uh, anyway. I had a favourite word, but then I saw your word, and it's pretty frickin' sweet, I'll give you that. You made me defensive. I'm sorry.
But a-ha! What with this being a blog about speculative fiction, I get to select from made-up fantasy terms too, so mines is "fuligin," which is to say a shade darker even than black. +10 blogger cred, right?
Right?
Not made up
ReplyDeletefu•lig•i•nous (fyo͝o‑lĭj′ə‑nəs)
adj.
1. Sooty.
2. Colored by or as if by soot.
American Heritage
Bob
But I thought!
ReplyDeleteAch. But lucubration, right? That's a keeper.
Keeper
ReplyDeleten.
1. Laborious study or meditation.
2. Writing produced by laborious effort or study, especially pedantic or pretentious writing. Often used in the plural.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright © 2008, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Updated in 2008. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. © 2010 Enfour, Inc.
Seems I've been handily defeated. But a-ha!
ReplyDelete...
Nope. I've got nothing. More's the pity.