Some time back I did a series of posts on entries from my Childhood Journal. I thought I had found all the nuggets of interestingness in there, but alas, I discovered something new today.
It’s a series of words that I learned way back when I was in middle school…so here I present the first selection in hopes that we bring these back into daily usage.
- Yammer - to utter or talk in a complaining voice
- Lapidate - to stone to death
- Polydactyl - thing with many toes or digits
- Tattersall - brightly colored fabric with plaid pattern
- Charnel - repository for dead people
- Yahoo - uncooth or rowdy person
- Quisling - betraying person
- Lycanthrope - werewolf
- Utricle - 1. a small sack; 2. thin seed vessel like a bladder; 3. the larger of the two membrane sacs in the labyrinth of the inner ear
- Ort - table scraps
- Demography - the statistical study of population as to birth, marriages, mortality, health, etc.
- Metalanguage - any symbolic system used to discuss or analyze any other symbolic system, ex. language
Aren’t those words just special?