Monday 7 November 2011

This week Shark asked about etymology. Go on a hunt through dictionaries, libraries, the internet, other people's brains, and see if you can find an etymology for any words you like the sound of, or any of these lovely and useful words:

education, tournament, feisty, home, field, daffodil, autumn, electricity, objection, ordinary.

The BBC writes a history of the word disgust. What's your thinking about this word?

Here's an online place to help you spin some stories. And here's a phrase dictionary.

In other word wanderings, I came across two online word game areas this week.

Here and here.

I haven't tried them all; some were mildly amusing and some were quite annoying. Try some. If you can't find any word games you like, invent your own.

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