July 13, 2006

Words of the week

Ypsilanti

prognosticate

chinoiserie

prizewinning
See also here and here.

Posted by Alan Hogue at July 13, 2006 09:42 PM
Comments

Alan, you've just gone completely over my head.

Posted by: Ben Brumfield at July 14, 2006 10:00 AM

Oh, these are just some of my recent favorite words.

As for the links, be sure not to miss the photo of Osama bin Laden being persued on a magic carpet by a jet. And then there's the high school essay contest site which says:

"Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice wants to know what YOU THINK about...
...the role of the Foreign Service and its members
in today's world!"

Posted by: Alan Hogue at July 14, 2006 11:57 AM

I'm not sure whether that last is surreal or sad. There's something very familiar in essay contests whose topic can be reduced to "Please write a commercial for our organization."

Posted by: Ben Brumfield at July 14, 2006 01:39 PM