Words!

My mom just told me about this fantastic website, wordnik.com. It's absolutely wonderful or, one might say, amazing, astonishing, astouning, cool, dandy, divine, dreamy, fabulous, fantastic, fantastical, glorious, incredible, keen, marvelous, miraculous . . . all suggestions from the "Related" function on the page for the word "wonderful." You can also find the pronunciation and etymology of any word you look up, as well as the stats on how many others have made the same search and examples of the word in context (so far all the examples I've read have been just as charming as the rest of the site). The coolest part though is the blog, accessible at the top of the page, which discusses the word of the day in more detail. My favorite? Terpsichorean, meaning related to dancing. I can't wait to use it! I've always loved obscure words but it's been a while since I've given much thought to that particular passion of mine, so I'm thrilled (atingle, excited, psyched, stoked, turned-on, worked up) to have this great new tool to keep me in touch with words and other lovers of them.