First Vocabulary Words of 2014

Latest word I'm in love with and never use but will try to:

imbue - (verb) to cause to become filled or saturated with a certain quality; to cause someone to become deeply affected by a feeling or to have a certain quality; endow
Her experience in Europe imbued her with a certain sophistication.


Best word you've never heard but is fun to say and not impractical for use in conversation:

smeap - (noun) a reprimand, snub or rebuke

(Thanks, "Says You!" at http://www.saysyou.net/)

Now go forth and have fun with language!

NYT's Column on Language Discontinued

Read all about it here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/magazine/27fob-onlanguage-t.html?_r=1

Forget the end of an era and closed doors opening windows. If there is no longer an interest in perpetuating and perfecting the language we use to communicate, I fear we are headed in the wrong direction.

Until someone else picks up the language torch, we'll have to get by on the archives:
http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/features/magazine/columns/on_language/index.html