Thursday, February 03, 2005

Logolepsy

Luciferous Logolepsy, a collection of over 9,000 obscure english words. Though the definition of an "english" word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, derivative, archaic or abandoned words in what we loosely define as the "English Language", that a clear-cut definition seems impossible. For the purposes of this project though, words are included that may stretch any basic definitions. Particular attention has been paid to archaic words, as they tend to be more evocative - as if their very age lends additional meaning or overtones. Current personal favorites include "skirr", "epicaricacy" and "schizothemia".

2 Comments:

Blogger muse said...

Thanks again for yet another great link!

My personal favourite:

"skive"
(...) v.t. slang, shirk; evade work, duty etc. skiver, n.

hee hee, as in "reading blogs at work?" LOL

2/03/2005 07:18:00 AM  
Blogger Richard said...

Always glad to provide a break from "work." I'm logoleptic myself, and so have delved deeply into this site.

2/03/2005 08:51:00 AM  

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