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WotD Perfect Tweets Roundup – Giveaway Edition

Every week, we pose a challenge: using any word of the day from this week, create a perfect tweet, otherwise known as a twoosh. If we like it, your tweet will appear on our blog. For the past few weeks, in honor of back-to-school season, we’ve been giving away a full set of Pocket Posh Word Power dictionaries to a randomly chosen winner. This is the last week!

And the lucky winner is. . .

Congrats to @welblech, aka Michel Welblech!

In addition, here are our favorite perfect tweets from this week.

Thanks to everyone for playing! Next week you’ll have another chance to perfect your word of the day perfect tweets. To get the word of the day, just follow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook, or subscribe via email.

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WotD Perfect Tweets Roundup – Giveaway Edition

Every week, we pose a challenge: using any word of the day from this week, create a perfect tweet, otherwise known as a twoosh. If we like it, your tweet will appear on our blog. Additionally, in honor of back-to-school season, we’re giving away a full set of Pocket Posh Word Power dictionaries to a randomly chosen winner.

This week’s winner? Drumroll please. . .

Congrats to @somcake, aka Jaime K!

In addition, here are our favorites from this week.

Thanks to everyone for playing! Next week you’ll have another chance to perfect your word of the day perfect tweets. To get the word of the day, just follow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook, or subscribe via email.

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WotD Perfect Tweets Roundup – Giveaway Edition

Every week, we pose a challenge: using any word of the day from this week, create a perfect tweet, otherwise known as a twoosh. In addition, starting this week and for the next three weeks, we’ll be giving away a full set of Pocket Posh Word Power dictionaries to a randomly chosen winner.

This week’s winner? Drumroll please. . .

Congrats to @Kotonosato, aka John Racine!

In addition, here are our favorites from this week.

Thanks to everyone for playing! Next week you’ll have another chance to perfect your word of the day perfect tweets. To get the word of the day, just follow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook, or subscribe via email.

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WotD Perfect Tweets Roundup – Giveaway Edition

Every week, we pose a challenge: using any word of the day from this week, create a perfect tweet, otherwise known as a twoosh. In addition, starting this week and for the next three weeks, we’ll be giving away a full set of Pocket Posh Word Power dictionaries to a randomly chosen winner.

This week’s winner? Drumroll please. . .

 

You’re a star, @WriterRoss, and the owner of four cute little dictionaries.

In addition, here are our favorites from this week.

Thanks to everyone for playing! Next week you’ll have another chance to perfect your word of the day perfect tweets. To get the word of the day, just follow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook, or subscribe via email.

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Pocket Posh Dictionary Give-Away

September’s right around the corner, and you know what that means: back to school. To celebrate, we’ll be featuring four specially-themed weeks of blog posts, words of the day, and lists of the day, and, starting this week, giving participants in our WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge a chance each week to win a full set of Pocket Posh Word Power dictionaries (powered by Wordnik, published by Andrews McMeel).

What the heck is the WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge? From our original post:

Use any word of the day (WotD) from this week in a sentence that best demonstrates its meaning in context. However, your sentence must be no longer than 140 characters – in other words, a perfect tweet!  Send us the link to your tweet via Twitter, and at the end of the week, we’ll pick our favorites and feature them on our blog.

Every Friday for these next four weeks, we’ll randomly pick a winner. So the more times you tweet a WotD in a sentence, the more chances you’ll have to win! (Different WOTD sentences, please, not the same sentence retweeted multiple times!)

There are four pocket-sized dictionaries in one set:

120 Words to Make You Sound Intelligent
120 Job Interview Words You Should Know
120 Words You Should Know
120 Words That Are Fun to Say

Check out our original post about the dictionaries for even more details.

The rules again for this give-away edition of the WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge:

  • Follow us on Twitter.
  • Tweet any Word of the Day from this week in a sentence, as many times as you want, as long as each sentence is different.
  • @ us the link to your tweet (presuming you don’t want “@wordnik” taking up your 140 character limit).
  • Tweets received after 12 PM Pacific time on Friday won’t be eligible for that week’s give-away.
  • On Friday we’ll randomly pick a winner who will receive a set of the four Pocket Posh dictionaries.
  • As usual, we’ll feature our favorites on our blog on Friday.
  • No hash tag necessary.

The contest will run for the weeks of August 15, 22, 29, and September 5.

Finally, keep up with the words of the day by following us on Twitter, liking us on Facebook, or subscribing via email. Good luck!

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Power Up With Pocket Posh Word Power Dictionaries

cover of Pocket Posh Word Power
Perhaps you’d like to sound more intelligent, or you have a job interview coming up.  Maybe you’re wondering what words should be part of your lexicon, or you’re just looking for some fun words to say.  If so, these Pocket Posh® Word Power dictionaries are for you!

Wordnik has partnered with Andrews McMeel Publishing to produce these four pocket-sized dictionaries, available May 31:

    120 Words to Make You Sound Intelligent
    120 Job Interview Words You Should Know
    120 Words You Should Know
    120 Words That Are Fun to Say

Small in size but big on information, each dictionary includes pronunciations, parts of speech, definitions, usage in a sentence, and etymology information. 120 Words to Make You Sound Intelligent also has an index of Prefixes and Suffixes.

With 120 Words to Make You Sound Intelligent, you’ll adorn your conversations with precise and elegant words such as muliebrity, insouciant, extirpate, and vitiate.

Business jargon can get your foot in the door . . . or get the door slammed in your face. Learn the right ways and contexts in which to use words such as stakeholder, kanban, and throughput to get noticed for the “right” reasons inside 120 Words to Use in a Job Interview.

From absquatulate to zoilist to words found in between (such as hullabaloo, phantasmagorical, and obstreperous), 120 Words That Are Fun to Say offers a list of smile-inducing words that will raise your spirits along with your word power.

Words such as propinquity, armillary, and farrago should be vocabulary staples. Consult 120 Words You Should Know to determine other additions to your lexicon.

Whether for Father’s Day, a recent grad, or that word nerd in your life (or yourself!), the Pocket Posh® Word Power collection is a gift that promises to boost vocabulary prowess.  Pre-order your copies today!

Check out our Words of the Day over the next couple of weeks for more samples from all four dictionaries.

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What’s missing from your personal dictionary?

From this week’s “THE WORD” column in The Boston Globe, by Wordnik founder Erin McKean:

You can get an intriguing look at our cultural obsessions by surveying the words supposedly expunged from the personal dictionaries of famous people. There’s Pope Benedict XVI: On the occasion of his first visit to the United States in 2008, The New York Times’ Pope blog said that “political correctness is not in his dictionary.” There’s Chairman Mao: “The word regret was not in his dictionary,” according to “The Private Life of Chairman Mao,” by Li Zhisui, who was Mao’s private physician for more than 20 years. And P.T. Barnum, in his “Struggles and Triumphs: Forty Years’ Recollections,” chastises his manager and son-in-law for being less than enthusiastic about some of Barnum’s plans with “have I not told you often enough, the word can’t is not in my dictionary?”

Read the full column here.