Today’s list of the day is words that look like adverbs but aren’t, including pimply, contumely, dastardly, ungainly, and homily.
Category Archives: List of the Day
Salt and saltiness
Today’s list of the day is about salt and saltiness (the chemical, crystal kind, not the personality kind). It has words like adarce, a saltish concretion on reeds and grass in marshy grounds; halce, a salt liquor made of the entrails of fish, pickle, brine, etc.; and salsuginous, a rare word for saltish or somewhat salt.
Bedaphors
Today’s list of the day is made of words related to sleeping, such as sweven, stertorous, ahypnia, recubation, sloomy, and consopite.
Words that sound dirty but aren’t
Today’s list of the day is of words that sound obscene but aren’t, such as condiment, fartlek, and firkin.
Cold steel
Today’s list of the day contains fencing terms such as remise, ballestra, and foible.
Heraldry
Today’s list of the day features heraldry terms, such as ogress, naiant, and trippant.
The hazards of spellcheck
Today’s list of the day is “the hazards of spellcheck,” featuring mistakes that automated spellcheckers just can’t catch or just make worse, such untied states and pubic domain.