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Top job, jackass.

Usually, I like the British.

    mal a droit – adjective

          lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless

wtf, dictionary.com? wtf?

WTF dictionary.com?  I was word hopping at dictionary.com (what? It was Sunday, perfectly reasonable to be at home looking up words) and ended up at ‘snarky’.  Snarky is a good word but I probably would not have included it as part of my Educating the Masses with a Kick Ass Word of the Week® if I had not noticed the ‘Related Searches’ in the upper left corner.

Now, it's important to note, I love John Cusack.  Seriously.  This is not a love like I have for Ed Norton.  Well, I do think John (can I call you John?) is ridiculously hot (he’s all tall and dark and yummy) but even better than attractiveness, he is a LIBERAL!  If I find out he’s brilliant to boot, I might just die of ecstasy right now. It’s no wonder I took offense, on John’s behalf, for being associated with the word snarky. 

Apparently, dictionary.com does not know the difference between snarky and brooding which is way more applicable to John Cusack.  Amateurs.  Perhaps dictionary.com should subscribe to my EMKAWW® instead of me subscribing to theirs.

snark·y – adjective,  snark·i·er, snark·i·est Chiefly British Slang.

    1.       testy or irritable; short

I think we abuse snarky and I wanted to see the actual definition.  Naturally, I was right.  Sorta.  We give snarky more rock star appeal because we use it as the adjective form of words like diva and prima donna but I think it’s more on par with curmudgeon.

Stolen, for you, by you.

I used tax dollars to steal today’s word.

    klept toc ra cy - noun, plural cies

        a government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves.

Can you find a government this word does not pertain to?

A pithy post

To stay true to today's word, I will keep this post short but not sweet.  Go forth: read, remember, reuse.  NOW!

    pithy – adjective, pith⋅i⋅er, pith⋅i⋅est

1.	brief, forceful, and meaningful in expression; full of vigor, substance, or meaning; terse; forcible: a pithy observation.

 

2.	of, like, or abounding in pith.

Words to Live by

As much as I like to talk, it's no wonder, I love words.  Until recently, I carried around a Roget's Thesaurus in Dictionary Form everywhere I went.  I like to flip through, reading random words.  And when I was in doubt of a definition, WHIPOW, I turn to my trusted sidekick and be in doubt no more!  Now, through the grace of modern technology and a hacker roommate, I just use my handy-dandy iPhone to access the interwebs and have infinite words at my disposal.  I also subscribe to Dictionary.com's word of the day but I still flip through old Roget's now and again when I am nostalgic for 2007 and need to feel actual paper in my hands.