Just a short post today. I’ve been busy and rather tired.
So, here’s an entry in my art journal I’m making for a swap. You can see previous posts about it here and here. I will also remind you again to save our postal service and point you here, here, here, and here.
The theme for the entry was “word of the day.” I had originally planned to do another word, for which I also had very strong mental imagery, but I didn’t do it that day and I’ve since forgotten the word. The definition had to do with torrents of words coming from someone’s mouth though. If you have a word that might fit that definition, I’d like to know what it is. It kind of bothers me that I can’t remember the original word.
Anyway, for this one, I just checked out dictionary.com‘s word of the day. Gasp! Dictionary.com? But…you’re an avid Merriam Webster user! Yes…I know. I didn’t like dictionary.com before because it gave all kinds of definitions without differentiating what might be slang, what was common usage, what was archaic usage…it was all jumbled together. And I thought it was corrupting the youth. Ok, not really. But I did see some problems with my brother looking up words and then using them however he liked, apparently with the blessing of dictionary.com. Merriam Webster was a real dictionary before they also brought it online and it had all the nice dictionary qualities I look for in a dictionary. That’s why I prefer them. Even now. But, they haven’t put out an app for wp7 and dictionary.com has. So, if I’m using my phone, I use the latter. And having used it more, I see that they have greatly improved how they present their content. I don’t really have a problem with them anymore.
SO ANYWAY, that’s how I got my word of the day. Complete with the definition. Tada. Upon looking at it closely, I may have misspelled it. I think believe it’s supposed to be “bellwether” not “bellweather.” I seem to have added an “a” due to the influence of my overactive imagination. I should probably try fixing that. Huzzah.
Random moosages as I see fit. 
