Friday, 20 May 2011

My favourite words this week ...

1) Fissiparous - As in 'The Chinese political scene was fissiparous during the early 1930s.'

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,744284-1,00.html

2) Defenestration - As in 'How weird was that newspaper story from France, last year, about people defenestrating themselves?'

http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/devil-fear-sparks-french-defenestration-20101024-16ytl.html OR http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2010/10/26/french-satanic-defenestration-story-thrown-out-the-window/

3) Antediluvian - As in 'I've been thinking about joining the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffalo.'

http://www.stichtingargus.nl/vrijmetselarij/raob_en.html

4) Cerebrotonic - As in 'Sean Condon is feeling a bit cerebrotonic recently as evidenced by the increasing strangeness of his blog posts' :)

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