THIS NARB’S FOR YOU

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Art Plotnik, Dictionaries, paul mcfedries, postaweek2012, Scrabble

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Today is the day to take those small moments and give them to those you care about.

~Susie Davis

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I. LOVE. WORDS. MADLY.

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I read books about words, like Spunk and Bite, Better Than Great, The Snark Handbook, In Other Words and I’m Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears.

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I love Dictionaries, the ordinary and the obscure ~ one-letter words, all-consonant words, all-vowel words. And every one on the list below can give you an edge in Scrabble with your brainy friends. Not to mention a jack-in-the-box moment on every page.

The Wonder of Whiffling Dutch Dictionary of One-Letter Words NetLingo: The Internet Dictionary Grandiloquent Dictionary Canting Dictionary [of Thieving Slang, 1737] Symbols Encyclopedia Worthless Word for the Day The New Hackers’ Dictionary Aaaugh!: The Foolish Dictionary Online The Devil’s Food Dictionary The SubGenius Dictionary of the Gods The Gargish Dictionary Cavers’ Slang Dictionary Pseudodictionary Dictionary of Winds Double-Tounged Word Wrester The Alternative Dictionaries A.Word.A.Day Dictionary of Custom License Plate Terms Dictionary of Gestures, Signs, and Body Language Cues The Fictionary of Witty Words Dictionary of English Phonesthemes List of Fictional Expletives The Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form The Meaning of Tingo Luciferous Logolepsy What Does That Mean? Singlish Dictionary Sound Dictionary The Visual Dictionary A Word of the Day & More User-editable Rhyming Dictionary Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Whether you’re a word wonk or a “n00b”, word spy will make your bones boogie.

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Take the word mungy, with a soft, j-like G. I learned this word on Paul McFedries website. http://www.wordspy.com. It means overcast and damp, like it was the day before yesterday. You know, the kind of weather that provokes grey-sky thinking…. and its extreme version, black-sky thinking.

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But not yesterday.

It was definitely a blue-sky thinking day.

Down in the hollow…

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…and at the coffee shop.

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So Readers, this narb’s for you. Every blog post is a small narrative bit, a tiny story about a small moment. Want to share one of yours? Leave a digital morsel in the comment section. It’s the perfect place to pass along your narb ~ by word-of-mouse.

Toni 1/25/12