MetaFilter posts tagged with words and word

Find the word you can't think of

Miko — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:26:33 -0800

Tip of My Tongue: Find that word you've been thinking about all day but just can't seem to remember.

All the news that's fit to cromulate

escabeche — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:01:45 -0800

The 50 words that generate the most click-throughs to the dictionary from the New York Times. The Nieman Journalism Lab reveals the words that sent NYT readers running to the Merriam-Webster. Key fact: Maureen Dowd is overly fond of the word "louche." If the post is TL;DR for you, here's the list in Wordle.

Look at all the pretty words

Dumsnill — Tue, 12 May 2009 07:58:56 -0800

A few weeks from now, English will have it's millionth word. Or will it? Probably not.

Yes yes! Pick me!

Tufa — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:44:17 -0800

Save the Words. Do lost words still have meaning? Just because society has neglected them doesn't make them any less of a word. How do you get lost words back in the dictionary? With lexicographers scanning publications and other communication for words not currently housed in the dictionary, all you need do is use your adopted words as often as possible. Go, Adopt a Word. Like graocracy.* * - government by an old woman or women. My adoptee: hymnicide: killing of hymns through alterations.

Wordchamp: hover over a foreign-language word and get its definition

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:42:30 -0800

Wordchamp lets you view foreign-language web pages with definitions in your language as mouseovers (registration-only). When you've registered, you can enter a language pair and a URL into Wordchamp's "Web Reader" and a definition will pop up when you hover over a word. It's sad that it's registration-only, and I can't vouch for the quality of the dictionaries; but I've found it quite useful in making some sense of web pages in different languages.

The column's name is "Words & Stuff." The column's name is called "Logophilia Weekly."

flatluigi — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 12:50:14 -0800

"Words & Stuff" is a column on wordplay. It lasted from January 1997 to September 2003. The six alphabets of content include pangrams, nonlimericks, monosyllabism, names for wind, Gilbert and Sullivan's Xena, Warrior Princess, and an interesting cameo in Hamlet. O t h e r h i g h l i g h t s , with more in the ar ch iv e s. Though the column itself hasn't been updated in a long time, Mr. Hartman is still alive and updating his journal.

mathowie — Thu, 16 Sep 1999 00:08:13 -0800

Stop what you're doing and go here now! It's an online anagram maker, put in your whole name, and set the word length as high as you can. At 3 letters per word the letters 'MatthewHaughey' spell out hundreds of phrases, the best shown below (punctuation by me):

Why hate? hug mate!
Heat may wet Hugh?
Eat Wham, they hug.
They wag meat, huh?