From Mindspillage

Words, plays on words, suchlike things. This page is mostly collecting scraps of thoughts for now, and probably some sections will eventually break off into their own pages.

Words and phrases I hate for no particular reason:

• yummy
• nourish
• moist
• crave
• on the go

Favorite words:

• omphaloskepsis
• penultimate
• octopodes

Neat books and essays about words and language:

• The Meaning of Everything, Simon Winchester
• Le Ton Beau de Marot, Douglas Hofstadter (and see my own attempts at the poem that is the subject of the book here)

Awful books about words and language:

• Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss

Anagrams I like:

• "mindspillage" -> "spelling maid", "idle sampling"
• "Kathleen Mary Walsh" -> " 'Why?' as teen hallmark", "well, shaky Earthman"