http://www.osirra.com/1 pLog 0.3 <p>A couple of new adjectives learnt from Andy last night.</p><p><i>Prolix</i> means tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length. And <i>captious</i> means tending to find and call attention to faults. I hope I can't be described as prolix, but I'm certainly captious.</p><br/> 10:43pm, Friday 25 April 2008 http://www.osirra.com/post/1/1190 http://www.osirra.com/post/1/1190 http://www.osirra.com/post/1/1190 dan Nice words Tangential Ramblings <p>Polymath: a person of great and varied learning.</p><p>Just used in reference to Stephen Fry in celebration of his 50th birthday. Lovely word.</p><br/> 8:03am, Thursday 23 August 2007 http://www.osirra.com/post/1/1027 http://www.osirra.com/post/1/1027 http://www.osirra.com/post/1/1027 dan Nice words Tangential Ramblings <p>Apparently, bathtime isn't a word. It's either hyphenated or treated as two separate words. Anyway, I'm making it a word. Similar to my use of <a title="Tangential Ramblings: Millenium? [sic]" href="http://www.osirra.com/post/1/22">eleven and twelve</a> mid-sentence. (Incidentally, I've used the word <i>eleven</i> in 22 posts to date (make that 23) and <i>twelve</i> in 25 (26). They come up quite regularly.)</p><p>Anyway, just a short post to say that I love bathtime, as does my daughter. She's not reached the <i>try to get as much water out of the bath as possible</i> phase yet, but nonetheless, she seems to personify happiness and contentedness. Which in turn makes me very happy.</p><br/> 8:32am, Tuesday 26 June 2007 http://www.osirra.com/post/1/979 http://www.osirra.com/post/1/979 http://www.osirra.com/post/1/979 dan Life Nice words Tangential Ramblings <p>panoply: a complete and impressive array.</p><br/> 4:24am, Thursday 21 June 2007 http://www.osirra.com/post/1/975 http://www.osirra.com/post/1/975 http://www.osirra.com/post/1/975 dan Nice words Tangential Ramblings <p>A couple of words that have caught my eye of late.</p><p>First, I used the word fabulous recently. I loved the idea that it could be construed as meaning <i>of or relating to fables</i>. It inspires a much greater feeling than its regular meaning of <i>really good</i>.</p><p>And today, I passed a charity shop that was advertising its sale of collectibles. (It was spelt <i>collectables</i> but I don't like that version.) Surely technically, everything falls into this category. Everything, that is, of which there are two or more in existence. Collecting one-offs would be somewhat challenging, and arguably futile.</p><br/> 9:20am, Saturday 24 March 2007 http://www.osirra.com/post/1/909 http://www.osirra.com/post/1/909 http://www.osirra.com/post/1/909 dan Nice words Tangential Ramblings <p>Lovely word, meaning the surround of a door. Worthy for both its combination of letters and its beautiful pronunciation.</p><br/> 8:03am, Wednesday 18 October 2006 http://www.osirra.com/post/1/709 http://www.osirra.com/post/1/709 http://www.osirra.com/post/1/709 dan Nice words Tangential Ramblings <p> Enjoyment obtained from the troubles of others. Highlighted by Mr. Bond today.</p><br/> 3:49am, Monday 7 August 2006 http://www.osirra.com/post/1/613 http://www.osirra.com/post/1/613 http://www.osirra.com/post/1/613 dan Nice words Tangential Ramblings