Wednesday's Words and other tidbits

I had a very busy night and morning so I didn't get a Wednesday's Word ready. HOWEVER ( I love that word) here are some words of interest and explanations.

yabieer
pnanoronr
yastid
juginef

These are the word verifications that I ran into this morning while commenting on blogs. What I found interesting is the amount of people who use these in their wips. If you're world building and need a name for a thingamabob that shoots stars out of the sky what are you going to call it? How about a yastid laser? Or maybe the favorite drink of the Yabieer ambassador? You can use these random lettered words to spice up your world. Next time you comment instead of growling because you can't tell if it's an "o" or an "a" try the name out in your story.

A quick side note:

Kari Marie at A Sideways Journey to Life Long Bliss gave me the versatile blogger award. ( I only paid her a small amount this time) She is also having a 50+ follwer giveway contest. Cool goodies to win!! Please go check out her blog. I will pass that award on in my next post.

Talli Roland is hosting an A-Z in April blogfest. See her button in the sidebar.

Happy Writing to all my fellow Juginefs.

Wednesday's Word 3

I was talking with my children last night about today's post. Trying in vain to get an idea for a word that might prove interesting. Twin #2 asked if it could be more than one word and as usual I was stumped at his out of the box thinking. Of course it could be more than one word. The English language (and others) are full of phrases that we use everyday. So I believe I will start to sprinkle in phrases along with wonderful words to try to use. I decided I would try for something fun and unusual. This weeks phrase is"

"Mad as a Hatter"

I love this one. I've used it before but after watching Johhny Depps stellar performance in "Alice in Wonderland, " I use it more often.

According to some websites these few words mean crazy or delusional. Apparently people who made hats during and around the 19th century used Mercury in the hat making process. This could cause Mercury poisoning. People with Mercury poisoning are known to show anti-social behaviour, aggressiveness and wild mood swings.

Well if that's true than half the people I know are suffering from Mercury poisoning or have switched to decaf.

Today I will try to use "Mad as a Hatter".

Wednesday's Word

Hey all. Well it's Wednesday again. I swear wasn't it just Wednesday last week? Anywho the word for this week is actually a spelling word from my ten yr olds spelling list. I figure if 4th graders are using it we should too right?

Drum roll please:

Connoisseur:
a person with expert knowledge or training

Well I can tell you I am a Connoisseur of many things. I have them listed below so as not to intimidate you in my expertise.

Things Lisa is a Connoisseur in:

1. matching dirty socks to the guilty party that left them under the bed
2. scraping "our experiment" off the ceiling fan/dog/mother-in-law etc
3. turning one pound of hamburger meat into a meal to feed four picky eaters.
4. Beating the garbage truck to the road with the dumpster because someone forgot it was their turn.
5. Chocolate. Marguritas. OOHHHH what if we had Chocolate marguritas?? I'm sorry i digress.

So I will strive to use Connoisseur today. Will you or will you try another word?

Happy Writing
Lisa