Time for another new word. I’m doing my part to find fun ones I actually think are pronounceable and can potentially work themselves into conversation. One of these days, I’ll post a crazy one or two and we’ll have a challenge to see who can use it the best.

I love today’s word, possibly even more than cacatory [my dictation software wanted to spell that "attack a Tory"] which I’m happy to report Mr. Lyons and I are still using as the occasion presents itself.

Scathefire is our new adopted word and you’ll see the definition on your left. I love the font they used (the folks over at savethe words.org).

This word lends itself to all manner of great usage and ought to be easy to adopt into current lexicon.

For my sentence today, I’m going with: Tragically, the scathefire destroyed the great Library at Alexandria and with it much of our world’s history, possibly even the truth about Atlantis…

Thanks to Sarah who commented on our last Adopt-the-Word post, teaching us homerkin [which dictated as Homer can]. Hey–a new way of describing liquid measures of beer? How cool is that?! Interestingly, I didn’t find the amount of liquid anywhere online, but many, many references to good ole Homer Simpson in relationship to this obsolete word. Larissa

Keep enjoying your remaining days of summer!

Tags: dictation errors, language