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Wm.son<a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/TFG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TFG</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GOP</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ChristianRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChristianRight</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AWAD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AWAD</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AnuGarg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnuGarg</a> Today's word: pecksniffPRONUNCIATION: (PEK-snif)MEANING: noun: A hypocritical person who pretends to have high moral principles.ETYMOLOGY: After Seth Pecksniff, a character in Charles Dickens’s novel Martin Chuzzlewit (serialized 1843-1844). Earliest documented use: 1844. The adjectival form is pecksniffian.NOTES: Pecksniff sounds like a man who moralizes in public and misbehaves in private. Which, spoiler alert, he does.But Pecksniff, seriously? If a character’s name is Pecksniff, his moral downfall feels less like a character arc and more like a destiny. With a name like this, you have given them no hope. They’re doomed from page one. See nominative determinism.It’s not just Dickens. The Harry Potter world has Voldemort (from French vol de mort: flight of death), 101 Dalmatians has Cruella de Vil, and so on. Heroes, on the other hand, get regular names like Oliver Twist or Harry Potter.

Wm.son<a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Words</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AWordADay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AWordADay</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AnuGarg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnuGarg</a> Today's Word is Podsnap:"Podsnap is a pompous, jingoistic character, proudly immune to nuance. As Dickens describes him, “Mr Podsnap was well-to-do, and stood very high in Mr Podsnap’s opinion. ... Mr Podsnap’s world was not a very large world, morally; no, nor even geographically: seeing that although his business was sustained upon commerce with other countries, he considered other countries, with that important reservation, a mistake.”As Podsnap himself adds, “No Other Country is so Favoured as This Country. ... This Island was Blest, Sir, to the Direct Exclusion of such Other Countries as -- as there may happen to be.”Podsnap, the walking embodiment of moral myopia in a world so tight no unpleasant facts gets through."Indeed! This seems so familiar...

Wm.son<a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/WordOfTheDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordOfTheDay</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AnuGarg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnuGarg</a> siderodromophobiaPRONUNCIATION: (sid-uh-ruh-droh-muh-FOH-bee-uh)MEANING: noun: The fear of trains.ETYMOLOGY: From Greek sidero- (iron) + dromos (running) + -phobia (fear). Earliest documented use: 1879.USAGE: “He went at night, by sleeper, and was able to make the most interesting observations of siderodromophobia. ... he was aghast with certainty that something had gone wrong -- a bridge was out, a train was ahead of them; perhaps another was coming just behind them, about to smash into them at sixty miles an hour.” Sinclair Lewis; Arrowsmith; Harcourt Brace; 1925.I love this new to me word!

Wm.son<a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Words</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Language</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/WordOfTheDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordOfTheDay</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AnuGarg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnuGarg</a>TIL a new one for number 47<a href="https://wordsmith.org/words/nefandous.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://wordsmith.org/words/nefandous.html</a>

The Krononaut Moon Project 🌑 Today's <a href="https://me.dm/tags/AWAD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#AWAD</a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/AWordADay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#AWordADay</a>: ELSEWHEN with Anu Garg ❛❛ Unlike a <a href="https://me.dm/tags/BlackHole" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#BlackHole</a> — a region of <a href="https://me.dm/tags/SpaceTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#SpaceTime</a> from which you cannot escape if you get too close — a <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Wormhole" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Wormhole</a> is a region into which you would disappear only to reappear <a href="https://me.dm/tags/elsewhere" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#elsewhere</a> or <a href="https://me.dm/tags/elsewhen" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#elsewhen</a>. ❜❜ 2001 May 20 <a href="https://me.dm/tags/WaPo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#WaPo</a> 🔗 <a href="https://Wordsmith.org/words/elsewhen.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://Wordsmith.org/words/elsewhen.html</a> 2025 Jan 06 🔗 <a href="https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Anu_Garg" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Anu_Garg</a> … <a href="https://me.dm/tags/AnuGarg" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#AnuGarg</a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Community" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Community</a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/TimeTravel" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#TimeTravel</a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Research" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Research</a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/vocabulary" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#vocabulary</a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/lexicon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#lexicon</a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/words" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#words</a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/glossary" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#glossary</a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#English</a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Time" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Time</a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Kronodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Kronodon</a>

Wm.son<a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AWordADay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AWordADay</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AnuGarg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnuGarg</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AWAD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AWAD</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Wordplay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wordplay</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/DadJokes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DadJokes</a>In Anu Garg's weekday email, the word was "tangent" in a week of math/geometry terms.Of course, my mind went:Tangent: The dapper dude that sprays a certain orange-y bronze-ish color on an egomaniac and then tells him how great it looks.

Wm.son<a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AWordADay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AWordADay</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AWAD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AWAD</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AnuGarg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnuGarg</a> Another new word to me that I probably knew at one point. Maybe? umbrageousPRONUNCIATION: (uhm-BRAY-juhs) MEANING: adjective: 1. Inclined to take offense easily. 2. Cast in shadow; shaded. 3. Providing shade.ETYMOLOGY: From Latin umbra (shade, shadow) + -ous (full of). Earliest documented use: 1587.

Wm.son<a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Quotes</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AndreMalraux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AndreMalraux</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Sons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sons</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Trauma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trauma</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Terrorist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Terrorist</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AnuGarg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnuGarg</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AWordADay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AWordADay</a> A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: The sons of torture victims make good terrorists. -Andre Malraux, novelist, adventurer, art historian, and statesman (3 Nov 1901-1976)

Wm.son<a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AnuGarg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnuGarg</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Words</a> A.Word.A.Day with Anu GargtrumperyMEANING: noun: 1. Something showy but worthless. 2. Nonsense or rubbish. 3. Deceit; fraud; trickery. ETYMOLOGY: From French tromper (to deceive). Earliest documented use: 1481. USAGE: “The room was crowded with a chilly miscellany of knick-knacks and ornaments, gewgaws, and trumpery of every kind.” Leo Bruce; Case for Three Detectives; Academy Chicago; 1980.“History, made up as it is of so much trumpery, treachery, and tyranny, needs deeds of valor, of sacrifice, and of heroism if it is to be palatable.” The Medal of Honor: A History of Service Above and Beyond; Zenith Press; 2014.

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