Today’s list of the day is of words that sound obscene but aren’t, such as condiment, fartlek, and firkin.
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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.
Things animal-ine
Today’s list of the day is made of those adjectives meaning “of or like a certain kind of animal” and ending in -ine You known canine and bovine, but what about crotaline (like a rattlesnake), arietine (like a ram), and rangiferine (like a reindeer)?
Words about words
Today’s list of the day is words about words, including asperand, which is an uncommon name for the @ symbol. Also on the list are chrestomathy, calumny, aubade, and more.
Words from “Infinite Jest”
Today’s list of the day features words from David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. A second such list. A third (and the largest) one. A fourth one.