Issue No. 15
EXOTIC ESOTERICS
G A L A P A G O S   M A G A Z I N E     April, 1998
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Keep getting words wrong? Friends call you Mr. or Ms. Malapropism? It's okay, the American Heritage Dictionary has this to say in comfort: An educated speaker of English knows around 100,000 words and constructions. And these can be combined an infinite number of ways, most of them infelicitous—for there are many more ways to get a word wrong than to get it right.

But that's really still no excuse.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Special thanks for the words this month go to, well, nobody but us...		 A favorite, and around since Galapagos was launched a year ago, Exotic Esoterics is our monument to words. Each month we offer you five of the best words in the English language, complete with made-up definitions or the real ones hidden under irony and sarcasm.

Our selections for April:

 
verdant:Spring begins and there's no other way to define this one than as happiness.
harried:You know, when you get so worried and bent out of shape that you sprout follicles on your forehead?
sough:The sound of a tree coughing at midnight in a wind storm.
barter:We'd rather trade this one for a better one, but it's the best we could do at the market.
assuagement:When the septic tank gets too full, and they have to send a guy to pump it out...you know, assuagement.

 

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