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Mom and the Ankylosaurus

OMBULATING IN SUBTOPIA THROUGH A MELANGE OF PHILISTINE FLAPDOODLE

The title of this post employs five of the ten words recently chosen as deserving of more use in conversation and prose. ‘Says who?’ you may well ask. It’s a fair question.

They were chosen by vote and based on a list developed by @WordWarriors of Wayne State University. You can find the rest of the 2015 top-ten list at http://wordwarriors.wayne.edu/2015/index.php. And really, how could you not want to check out concinnity, opsimath, and the other contenders?

But why stop there? Do you realize that you too can do your part to help save your favorite words from oblivion? Any word lover can nominate English words deserving wider use.

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