Tag Archives: words

Blogwatch: A farrago of words

Posted on July 27, 2010 by ozymandias

If you are playing Scrabble or other word games (hopefully not in office time), and need some obscure word to make that triple word score, World Wide Words is the site you should bookmark. It’s replete with words like, well, … Continue reading →

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Here’s an idea…

Posted on July 21, 2010 by rkswamyinteractive

Here is a line that we are seeing everywhere these days. What’s the most resilient parasite? An Idea. A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules. Which … Continue reading →

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On refudiating new words

Posted on July 20, 2010 by ozymandias

How do new words arise in a language? Are they even legitimate? Does usage make a new word suddenly acceptable to the dictionary? A hot question is now spreading through the internet – is Sarah Palin’s neologism ‘refudiate’  (coined on … Continue reading →

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A blizzard of snowclones

Posted on July 2, 2010 by ozymandias

We know what a cliché is: a phrase used so often, it is irritating to the reader. Nevertheless, they survive, because they are so easy to bank upon by lazy copywriters (such as this writer). In fact, they are cliché … Continue reading →

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Netspeak: Getting Amazonned

Posted on June 30, 2010 by ozymandias

You will have heard of being ‘Bangalored‘. A word created by Western information technologists to describe the phenomenon of losing their jobs to an IT guy from a Bangalore-based outsourcing firm. Now what if you lost your business to an … Continue reading →

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