There are plenty of words out there that you’d want describing a gift you’re giving to someone (ex. awesome, great, alluring) and there are some obviously undesirable words (ex. terrible, inappropriate, bad). Here is my list of words that aren’t obviously poor gift descriptions but they’re really no good: Useful – It is a good… Continue reading 5 Words You Don’t Want Describing Your Gift
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Prize Fact’ry
Some of you already know my feelings about the word za, which is of course a “real” word. This, however, is not a “real” word: Prize Fact’ry? Come on, Fact’ry, really? No room for the letter ‘O’ here but instead of coming up with a new name (note: not even a real factory), we’re just… Continue reading Prize Fact’ry
Words That Lose Friends
I’m an avid player of Words with Friends, a Scrabble-like game for smartphones and Facebook. The trick to the game is not really having a big vocabulary, but more so to have absolute understanding of all the world’s short and somewhat cheap words (I’m looking at you, “qi.”) Recently I stumbled across the word “za,”… Continue reading Words That Lose Friends