Welcome to Fun Word Friday. CaptionMax is chock full of friendly, dedicated Word Nerds. Every day we hear words, we type them, correct them, punctuate them, research them, study them, write them, speak them, and take them out to dinner.
Being Word Nerds, we love the exotic. Here are some of our favorites – and we’ll post more each week!
Gossypiboma: a surgical sponge left within a patient after an operation
Liuqin: a four-stringed Chinese lute with a pear-shaped body
Misoneism: fear of change
Scumble: (verb) to make less brilliant by covering with a thin coat of opaque or semi opaque color applied with a nearly dry brush
Sniglet: a word that doesn’t appear in the dictionary but should
What is the cure for misoneism?
Comment by Morton Felix | February 10, 2010 @ 3:51 pm
Morton, I think the cure would be an honest and objective history lesson about how misoneism has perpetuated all manner of nasty stuff throughout the historical record.
Comment by Thom | February 11, 2010 @ 8:14 am