Friday, March 13, 2009

Save the Words

SAVE THE WORDS
Save the Words is a website created by the same people who publish the largest dictionary in the world, Oxford dictionary. The site features hundreds of washed up has been words that literally shout out for you to pay attention to them. Move your curser over a word and it'll cry out "Pick me!" or "over here". When clicked a popup reveals the definition, an example sentence, and an invitation to adopt the word by using it in your everyday conversations.
Many words are interesting and it causes one to wonder why they ever lost their popularity. Here are three of my favorites:
jobler- one who does small jobs
namelings-persons bearing the same name
kexy-brittle or whithered

http://www.savethewords.org/
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Junius Wright is a language arts teacher at the Academic Magnet High School in Charleston, SC.