Category Archives: Word Nerd Wednesday

Word Nerd Wednesday – Pigwidgeon

Posted on January 9, 2019 by Fiction Aficionado

Welcome to the first Word Nerd Wednesday post for 2019! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and New Year. I was super excited to receive Jeff Kacirk’s Calendar of Forgotten English from my sister as a Christmas gift, so guess … Continue reading →

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Word Nerd Wednesday – Cliché

Posted on December 5, 2018 by Fiction Aficionado

Welcome, word nerds! I have a quick one for you today that follows on from last week’s post on the word stereotype. As a brief recap for those who missed last week’s post (and are too lazy to click on the … Continue reading →

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Word Nerd Wednesday – Stereotype

Posted on November 28, 2018 by Fiction Aficionado

Happy Wednesday, word nerds! This week’s Word Nerd post is inspired by last week’s Top Ten Tuesday post, in which I gave a list of people that book lovers everywhere should be thankful for. In the process of putting together … Continue reading →

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Word Nerd Wednesday – Mugging

Posted on November 21, 2018 by Fiction Aficionado

Today’s Word Nerd Wednesday post begins with a joke: Q: Why did the coffee go to the police station? A: He needed to report a mugging. Did I get a groan out of you? 

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Word Nerd Wednesday – Draconian

Posted on October 31, 2018 by Fiction Aficionado

Happy Reformation Day, and welcome to all my word nerd friends. Last week I did a Top Ten Tuesday post focusing on villains, which mentioned “the Draconian Mr. Murdstone”—David Copperfield’s step-father. And that lead to the inevitable question: where did … Continue reading →

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Word Nerd Wednesday – Forty Winks

Posted on September 12, 2018 by Fiction Aficionado

Greetings, word nerds! This week’s Word Nerd Wednesday post is inspired by a poem by Shel Silverstein. I don’t know whether you know of his various children’s books, but Runny Babbit is a popular one in our household, all the funnier … Continue reading →

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Word Nerd Wednesday – Orectic

Posted on September 5, 2018 by Fiction Aficionado

Greetings, fellow word nerds. We haven’t played a game of What Do You Think It Means for a while, have we? Well, I found a great word for us this week: Orectic. I have four possible definitions for you:

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Word Nerd Wednesday – Bucolic

Posted on August 29, 2018 by Fiction Aficionado

Happy Wednesday, word nerds! A couple of months ago I posted about a word that I thought really didn’t sound like its definition: effulgent. (You can read that post here.) Last week, I was reminded of another word that fits into … Continue reading →

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Word Nerd Wednesday – To a T

Posted on August 22, 2018 by Fiction Aficionado

Hello, word nerds! It’s been a little while since I did a word nerd post, but last week I wrote a review that mentioned a character who fit a certain description ‘to a T’. First of all I had to … Continue reading →

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Word Nerd Wednesday – Sparking

Posted on July 25, 2018 by Fiction Aficionado

Greetings, word nerds! It’s a while since I’ve had a Word Nerd Wednesday post, but I’m back today and ready to start a revival. You may have looked at today’s word and thought, “Sparking? How can there be anything interesting … Continue reading →

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