That's really interesting!

I like that so many could be considered virtues. A little surprising to see "semiliquid". I mean, isn't that sort of self-explanatory?

I mean, isn't that sort of self-explanatory?

We should all go look up "self-explanatory" right now to ensure it makes next week's list.

I thought most people looked up the dirty words.

These lists strike me more as spelling look-ups than for definitions.

I was a little disturbed to see "google" on the list of words most looked up in the last 4 months. Really?

I imagine those are people wanting to go to Google and typing it in the wrong box.

This sort of restores my faith that rich human communication is not going the way of the dinosaur. With a couple of exceptions, the words on this list are worth looking up.

It would be interesting if there was a way to link a word's appearance on the list to its use in an article or blog post. I have to say the list does not at all reflect the words I have to look either for meaning or spelling; those are sadly mundane.

I looked up benefice, bubkes, didactic, and portmanteau. AFAIK, I've never seen benefice or bubkes, have seen both didactic and portmanteau a million zillion times but never had looked them up, or if I did look them up the definitions didn't stick.


... and having read their definition of benefice, I'm still not quite sure what the hell they're trying to tell me --
1: an ecclesiastical office to which the revenue from an endowment is attached
2: a feudal estate in lands
seems to me that their definition of benefice is bubkes all the way

Sort of beaks my heat that "love" made two of the lists.

These lists strike me more as spelling look-ups than for definitions.
Definitely, for a lot. In fact, I used it as a spelling lookup today for (sec, have to look it up again):
Bouilabaise

One 'L' or two? :)

That's odd since I was sure I copied it off the page. Doh, I probably copied what I typed in.
There are a couple variations.
Bouillabaise
Boullabaisse
Bouillabais

but they all refer back to the first one.

It's the Wiki URL that's misspelled.