At Words For a Loss

One day, for some morbid reason, I was looking up synonyms for "death" in my copy of Roget's Thesaurus.

I found myself at words for a loss!

WE thought it would be a simple matter to launch a new Website, especially one created from a shared vision. Our goal was -- and is -- to put fun into those basic elements of language and speech - words. We are hoping you will allow us to put words into your mouths.

Verbicidal Tendencies will be a collaborative effort, a team blog if you will. At present, our team consists of only a dynamic duo of discourse, the Lords of Lexicon, whom you'll come to know as the Queen of ReNoun and the Verbinator.

Without waffling, we wish to welcome you to the whimsical and wonderful wacky world of wise and worthy words.

So at this time we will commit to screen a few words to introduce ourselves.

If you're familiar with my blog, Parenthetically Speaking..., then you're already familiar with my affinity for finding and explaining bloopers. Mike shares this warped love of wild and wacky words; hence, it was almost inevitable that The Verbinator and The Queen of ReNouns would team up to collaborate on weeding out the weasel words. We'd love it if you'd give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses of ... bad, warped words. We're armed with dictionaries and dangerous, with ... Verbicidal Tendencies.

Some of you, hopefully a lot of you, have read my blog, It Occurred To Me, and know that I seldom in my writings wax serious. (Serious? Isn't that the name of a star in Ursa Minor?)

....I had envisioned this site some time ago. It wasn't until I found that proverbial pot 'o gold at the end of the rainbow, namely Serena Joy, did I realize the site was possible. The two of us have been busy planning, researching, and putting this things together. It's been a labor of love.

....It will be a Team Blog, but we don't plan to go it alone. In more than one place on this page you will see a call for partners.....We're looking for a few good Bloggers. As stated in the footer below, we are looking for teammates.

In future posts we hope to answer such questions as: "What's the word?" or "What's in a word?" That sentence led me to another question, a profound question.

....What's another word for "word?" To answer a question of such magnitude I had only to refer to my handy thesaurus, the bible of wordsmiths everywhere.

....Word: (Syn)- phrase, term, utterance, expression; (V) - articulate
....Wordy: (Syn) - talkative, verbose, garrulous, loquacious; (Ant) - silent, uncommunicative

Many words go to a sackful. - Dutch Proverb

Become a part of the team, or simply e-mail us your finds and we'll run them with full credit to you. Whether you stumble across etymological menaces to society you'd like explained or whether you write your own exposé and would like to share them, come and join in the fun. There are some of you who I'm really hoping will sign on for this; you know who you are.

Yes, coming soon to a Blogroll near you: a site that will give new meanings to the term meaning. (Serena says, "Mike, that's not like that IS doesn't always mean IS thing, is it?") Today's introductory post is only the beginning.

....For the last word on words, let us be the first place you turn for the best fun with words.

We're looking for a few good Wordsmiths. It says it like it is in the footer below, we are looking for teammates.

I would like to extend a thumbs up to Miss Cellania, without whom this site would be still be but a dream. It was with her advice that this post was nurtured. Drop in and tell her what you think of Verbicidal Tendencies.