So, here’s a new feature on the blog, akin to Damien’s Fluffy Links and Alexia’s Red Links (and all the other links that are out there). I will endeavour to put a site of the day up, with a brief description and maybe a screenshot. I’ll see how long I can keep this up anyway. Here’s the first attempt:
Save The Words is a website that brings together words that are falling out of fashion in conversation, and which allows users to “adopt” a word, thereby pledging to use it in conversation. (The words also beg you to use them when you hover over them. Weird.).
Example:
Screen shot of Save the Words
It’s run by Oxford Faja, which is part of the Oxford University Press. It’s aim is to make sure that we don’t forget old words and bring them back in to every day usage. Given that I really like words, I kind of like this site. My girlfriend had a similar calender last year, of old words that are no longer with us. Anyway, I really like the way that they’ve taken a traditionally offline format (a dictionary) and put it in an online context.
So, make sure and adimpleate your blateration to obstrigillate your vocabulary. Ahem.
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