I learned a new word today...

An exceedingly rare occurrence, given that I know the standard "unusual words." Today's word is hypaethral.  Can you guess its meaning from the context in the following sentence?

We were thinking of putting a roof over our porch, but, if we leave it hypaethral, we'll get more sunlight and we'll have a convenient location to look at stars on clear nights.

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Today's fridge poetry is entitled "Please Shut Up!"

The online version of Online Poetry, Genius edition, certainly has a lot of vituperative terms in it... Either that or it's just so much fun to denigrate someone with polysyllables.

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Today's fridge poetry is entitled "Please Shut Up!"

The online version of Online Poetry, Genius edition, certainly has a lot of vituperative terms in it... Either that or it's just so much fun to denigrate someone with polysyllables.

( Read more... )