Word Lovers Unite

March 3, 2017 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Word Lovers Unite

I like words. I like how they make me feel. I like how they roll off my tongue. Words like filipendulous are phonetically fun to enunciate, as is intractable, which has an empowering definition as well. Then there are words like smellfungus, which make you giggle like a 12-year old boy. This interesting information came from NewsMiner out of Alaska in their article, “How word lovers made ways to find new words.”

Call me a logophile. I am okay with that. It puts me in the same group as Webster and Roget, or at least close.

Webster was a logophile’s logophile. He completed the first draft of his thesaurus in 1805 at 26 but didn’t publish it until he retired 43 years later and worked on it nonstop for four years. Then he continued tinkering with it until his death at 90.

Roget started with an idea and then kept searching until he found the word that best expressed it. He believed there just might be a better word to use if he kept looking.

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.