Today’s list of the day is of “abecedarian insults,” a collection of archaic, obsolete, or inkhorn terms used to insult others, terms like wlatsome, unguinous, and mephitic.
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Books split over the new year
Can you find the will to finish reading a book if doing so would carry the undertaking across the changing of the year? Some people can’t. PossibleUnderscore writes, “When reading a book, I cannot read it from the end of December into the New Year. I can’t read it over the transition of the years. I feel it tears the book in two so that it is, effectively, hanging in oblivion, not having been read in either time. To me, it’s a disorder that must be avoided at ALL costs.”
So today’s list of the day is “Books torn asunder by New Year’s Eve.”
See the wood for the trees
Today’s list of the day is “see the wood for the trees,” which contains a list of types of wood that have the word “wood” in them: beechwood, shittimwood, stavewood, leatherwood, etc.
ROT-13 Pairs
Today’s list of the day is “ROT-13 pairs,” words which when encoded with the primitive 13-character offset cipher become another recognizable word, like nowhere/abjurer and ant/nag.
You can say that again
Today’s list is “you can say that again,” featuring reduplicated words like yo-yo, dik-dik, and hush-hush.
My Little Ponies
Today’s list of the day is all of the names of the original set of “My Little Pony” ponies, a fruity-smelling, pastel-colored stable of equine toys with names like Springy, Starswirl, and Lovebeam. Caution! This link to the Hasbro site will need a whiskey chaser.
Playthings and toys
Today’s list of the day is “playthings and toys,” which includes things like skipjack, squawker, and whizgig.