Words you find most effective or fun to use when appropriate

[sdtripper2]

KPBS Radio for the Verbivores with links of interest on words, Click here:
I was watching the Sunday Morning program on CBS today and they had
a segment of new words used by people.

What are your favorite words

I found it interesting and wonder if any here would like to share words of
interest and or words they find fun to use while posting or writing
Maybe you have a website you like that is about words or a play on words

Truthiness Voted 2005 Word of the Year
(Wishy-washy term beats out ‘Katrinagate,’ ‘podcast’ in poll of linguists)
"Truthiness" was credited to Comedy Central satirist Stephen Colbert,
who defined it as "truth that comes from the gut, not books."

Did you know that you can start a sentence with the words AND & BUT

Listen to A Way With Words Hosts explain words with fun:
Pirates, Bootleggers, and Getting "Caught Red-Handed"
Yiddish Kvetching
Australian Slang 1
Australian Slang 2
Shakespeare's Influence on English

My Favorite online websites for -
rhymes, synonyms, definitions, and more:
Dictionary-com
Rhymezone -com
Onelook-com
Grammar, Usage and Style

[Joseph]

Did you know that you can start a sentence with the words AND & BUT?

But of course! And why not?

Joseph

[Miriam C.]

Some of us would get in trouble if we get into words with "meaning" this early in the day.


Besides Double Entendre`s were invented as Trippers for people like me.

[Mary K]

Did you know that you can start a sentence with the words AND & BUT?

But of course! And why not?

Joseph

Good One Joseph!!!

Mk

[Juneaudave]

I don't have anything to say that would be postable.

[Laredo]

Once upon a time, I worked in a newsroom.

The night news editor would make a "dummy page" about 4 p.m. to take back to the layout boys, showing where he intended to put the lead story, the first major, and the photos for page 1 (this needed to be laid out ahead of time, and sometimes the actual copy if it were local wouldn't be available to write headlines off of until 8 p.m. With a 10 p.m. press run and 40 or 50 inside pages to layout and write the headlines for as well, the NNE didn't want to leave anything to chance.) So in various sizes and faces to match his mood, he had preprints:

ERSATZ HEADLINE
SIMULACRUM (Photo) which he simply stuck to the "dummy sheet" and shipped off.

It was left to us rim editors to write real headlines to fit in those blocks.

[SkipperSue]

I can only think of 2 right now, left overs from back in the bulletin board days.
I still use "prolly" and "enuff" instead of probably and enough.

[Ira]

ERSATZ HEADLINE
SIMULACRUM

It was left to us rim editors to write real headlines to fit in those blocks.

I interviewed with the Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel when I first moved here, and I know exactly what you're talking about, but I never knew this BEFORE. (They gave me a "test," which I guess I failed. Or they weren't hiring jews that week.)

I seem to remember that they give you a LITTLE leeway, like 2 or letters, but that's about it and it has to be 2 or 3 letters LESS, not more.

My favorite headline of all-time was when Russian president Leonid Brezniv (spelling?) died, in The New York Post:

Red Pres Brez Dead!

[Laredo]

Oh, yeah, Ira ...

that's a standard thing in the industry.

There's a "headline count" you do -- an a is equal to 1 space, an i is equal to a half-space. If your headline count comes short but within 2, you're okay.
If it's long, solly cholly ...

hmm. I think my favorite expletive ever, though, is "hot pigsnot!"

[Podunkfla]

I was actually hired as art director by a major newspaper back in '68 to help them with the transition from "hot metal" to "cold type" ...aka: phototypesetting. When the newsroom guys found out we could pretty much cram any headline in any size hole... They kinda went crazy for a while. We put out some might ugly newspapers until we learned to use the new tech typesetting with some common sense. It was a fun time to be in the business though... I tought my mother to use one of the first phototypesetters. You had to be good; it was a blind, non counting keyboard... no screen, no spell-check, no word processor. You just typed and someone else ran the film... then you got to see what you did! A very humbling experience for some folks. Not many could hack it. My mother was one of those rare individuals that could spell any word she had ever seen. I sure didn't inherit her talent.

PS: We once did a full page ad with Arnold Palmer featuring Ban-Lon shirts. It made it to all 6 editions with 96 point type that screamed: "Ban-Lon Knit Sh!ts" - $6.99

[doug hodder]

Good topic Steve....I literally know dozens of words............but then I'm not very perspicacious..... doug