This week’s obscure English word is onomastics. This is the term given to the study of proper names. Your challenge? Write a sentence (or two) in the comments using this word. Copyright © Matthew Wright 2017
There are over a million individual words in English. This week’s is thon. It’s an epicene word that never made it into common usage. It was coined by Charles Converse in 1858 as a conflation of ‘that one’, and intended as a gender-neutral pronoun – like ‘they’. Thon first appeared in a dictionary as early … More The obscure word of the week is thon
This week’s obscure English word is covfefe. Until this week it was so obscure nobody had even heard of it. I have no idea what it means. Your challenge? Can you come up with a dictionary-style meaning? In the comments. Copyright © Matthew Wright 2017
The obscure English word this week is moue. Really it isn’t an English word, of course. It is stolen from French (along with a lot of other English words) and means a pout. Your challenge? Write a sentence (or two) in the comments using this word. Copyright © Matthew Wright 2017
This week’s really obscure English word is prolix. It means long and tedious. The antonym of this post, really. Your challenge? Write a sentence (or two) in the comments using this word. Copyright © Matthew Wright 2017
This week’s really obscure English word is functor. It means somebody who performs functions: an operator. Your challenge? Write a sentence (or two) in the comments using this word. Copyright © Matthew Wright 2017
This week’s really obscure English word is nainsook. It is an eighteenth century word referring to soft cotton fabric, originally from India. Your challenge? Write a sentence (or two) in the comments using this word. Copyright © Matthew Wright 2017
