Thursday, December 2, 2010

Leavening the Lexicon

Certain words are just too fun to pass up or let die. They're hidden, imprisoned, aquiver with forced inactivity in the dusty tomes of classic literature. They demand to be taken off the shelf and dusted off, set loose among the staid, tech- and pop-culture-heavy parlance of today. It'd be like bringing back Ben Franklin, Aphra Behn, Jane Austen or Leonardo da Vinci and seeing what they'd do with a blog or tweeting....

Here are just some words with which I've decided to spice up my lexicon:
A shot of linguistic champagne straight to the brain. Isn't it the cat's pajama's?

1 comment:

Katy said...

I love vexed. It is one of my favorite words of all time.