The Word Report
I have been thinking about words lately, especially since Jim is still letting me whup him at Boggle occasionally. Perhaps a regular word report? Why not spice up all this squirrellery with a bit of orthography and etymology.
My best Boggle words from our last game: peon, roil, rout.
My best stream of Boggle words from the same game: snow now how sow low lower slow slower show shower (the base and artful rhyming method by which I whup the aforementioned Jim).
Jim insists that I may win often, but his words are more elegant: peen, retool, lithe, dower, hone, petty. Perhaps he is right.
My current favourite word: 'parse'. (With 'rotund' and 'rotunda' together in second place, chasing each other around like rats on a wheel.)
4 Comments:
It's true. Only Jim could bring elegance to Boggle. Too bad elegance doesn't win the game!!!
I, too, am partial to "parse". But the favorite word that I always come back to is "phenomenology", both form and content.
(As I am currently teaching from the chapter about humanistic psychology, I even get to use it a lot in front of people.)
Trav always destroys me in boggle, scrabble, AND trivial pursuit, but I don't let it get to me. I really really really don't. Wah wah. T.
What's elegant about "petty"?
(sorry, Jim)
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