Today’s list of the day is marky‘s list of “famous robots,” such as Marvin, R2D2, WALL-E, and some you’ve never heard of because they’re famous in another multiverse!
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Encyclopedia gustatorica
Today’s list of the day is “encyclopedia gustatorica,” a fantastic collection of yummy food words like gazpacho, pomelo, burrito, and bulgogi.
Also see the “food” list by perodicticus and “foodie” by Reese Tee
The history of cool
Today’s list of the day is “The History of Cool,” featuring a number of different ways you can call something good, great, neat, or excellent in English.
Words to Try to Use in Colloquial Speech Without Sounding Like a Pretentious Ass
Today’s list of the day is “Words to Try to Use in Colloquial Speech Without Sounding Like a Pretentious Ass.” Good luck with that. 🙂
List of the day: words and compounds containing two aitches
Today’s list of the day is “hh,” which contains words and compounds where “h” follows “h”: hotdish, challah, fishhook, roughhousing, more.
Expletive mimicry
Today’s list of the day is “Expletive Mimicry,” which contains safe words to use instead of cursing: heck, shucks, crud, and so forth.
Cahot and soul soles
Today’s word of the day is cahot, a rare word of French origin, referring to a bank or ridge of snow which has been heaped up across a road by passing sleighs, leaving a corresponding depression behind; hence, a surface-undulation or ridge-like inequality which, with the corresponding depression, is known in the United States as a thank-you-ma’am. Cahot is pronounced /kuh-HOE/ or /kuh-HOO/. John Barlett has more about cahot and thank-you-ma’am in his 1877 Dictionary of Americanisms.
Today’s list of the day is called “all animals are created equal.” It features animals matched with homophones: soul sole, bore boar, aunt ant, and so forth.