Browsing Month November, 2006
Carnivores eat meat, herbivores eat plants, and ….
Interesting article about a new report in the journal Nature on lexical gustatory-synesthesia. It’s an extremely rare condition in which people involuntarily “taste” certain words when they hear them — and MRI scans supposedly they’re not making this up. One subject … hates driving, because the road signs flood his mouth with everything from pistachio more…
Bookmark THIS! Visual Thesaurus
Visual Thesaurus has long been one of my favorite sites on the web. It’s an extremely helpful reference tool that you really have to experience to believe. A writer friend turned me on to it a couple of years ago, and I’ve been using it ever since. The site also features lots of a multitude more…
More about those Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
Well, if you heard this weekend’s show, you heard my esteemed fellow Verbivore, Richard Lederer, signing off as co-host of “A Way with Words.” Here’s a story in today’s San Diego Union-Tribune about it all. And podcast listeners, this info’s for you: We’ll be rolling out the all new “A Way with Words” in early more…
Got Carbon?
The good folks at Oxford University Press have announced their latest choice for “Word of the Year.” It’s “carbon neutral.” Hmmmm, I dunno — I have to confess I have a fondness for the runner-up, “elbow bump,” defined as: “a greeting in which two people touch elbows, recommended by the World Health Organization as an more…
