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Tuesday, December 09, 2003

Tremendity - Somewhat unclear, it was said in haste and stutter... perhaps an amalgam of tremendous enormity? More likely intended to be tremendousness.

Clipped and paraphrased context:

"...use our tremendous resources..."

"Well, it's not very tremendous. It needs more tremendity."

laughter ensues.

Witnesses: Wes Brown, Scott Davis, Paul Hoffman, a few others

¶ Tuesday, December 09, 2003

Digressive - Yes, it's a word.

Reminutia - No, it's not a word, but a combination of two... reminiscent and minutia. You do the math.

Witnesses: Everyone who reads this.

¶ Tuesday, December 09, 2003

Shawn's Non-Existent Word(s) of the Day

These are words I have been heard saying that don't actually exist. Yet.

New words are popping up all the time and being "officially" added to dictionaries. For example, dot-com, slamming, megaplex, e-tailing, are all recent dictionary additions and therefore part of the English language for good. Maybe if I keep this up, some of my words will be remembered for all time. Or not...