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Larry's Pretty Good Word of the Day
echoes of an office whiteboard
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Created on 2017-01-13 15:50:08 (#2749622), last updated 2025-04-22 (18 hours ago)
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| Name: | prettygoodword |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | Nov 15 |
| Location: | Arizona, United States |
| Website: | Larry's Pretty Good Journal |
This journal echoes the Pretty Good Word of the Day I post on my office whiteboard. The ideal pretty good word is one you know you've seen but aren't quite sure of its exact meaning. However, I am an intermittent poet and thus word-drunk, and like a lexical magpie betimes cannot resist the delightful sesquipedalian and absurd abstrusity. Suggestions in any category welcome.
I use the Dictionary.com, Merriam-Webster, Wiktionary, Wordsmith, Wordnik, Dr Goodword's, Collins, and OneLook Words of the Day on a regular basis. Others sites I visit less frequently (because of interest or ghosting) are the WordSpy's and TravLang WOTDs. Further tidbits are gathered from these weird, wordcrafty, nifty, rare, difficult, logorrheatic, and grandiloquent words.
The major dictionary sites are, of course, Dictionary.com and OneLook—many of the others are either subsumed unto these or behind paywalls. This Online Etymological Dictionary is also useful.
My favorite words are quaquaversal and petrichor. My main journal is![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
larryhammer.
I use the Dictionary.com, Merriam-Webster, Wiktionary, Wordsmith, Wordnik, Dr Goodword's, Collins, and OneLook Words of the Day on a regular basis. Others sites I visit less frequently (because of interest or ghosting) are the WordSpy's and TravLang WOTDs. Further tidbits are gathered from these weird, wordcrafty, nifty, rare, difficult, logorrheatic, and grandiloquent words.
The major dictionary sites are, of course, Dictionary.com and OneLook—many of the others are either subsumed unto these or behind paywalls. This Online Etymological Dictionary is also useful.
My favorite words are quaquaversal and petrichor. My main journal is
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