Word Imperfect

If you like Balderdash and other forms of word play, the Word Imperfect blog is pretty cool.

The blog owner, a writer from New Zealand explains how to play:

"I choose an obscure dictionary word [nearly every day]. You invent a wacky meaning. I put 3 invented meanings on the voting poll below and list the true meaning."

Words so far in June: Limbate, squacco, abbacy, tierce, wivern, pilose, splenius, kymograph, jobation, nonage, mattoid, horopter, asperity bleb, quaquaversal, orlop, francolin, reliquary, graminaceous.

I would think even Scrabble players would learn something new. And speaking of words, the book American Bee: The National Spelling Bee and the Culture Of Word Nerds : The Lives Of Five Top Ppellers As They Compete For Glory and Fame by James Maguire is a great read and includes several introductory chapters about the history of the American Bee and the English language. Wordnerd heaven.