Lexical geekeries - Monochromatic Outlook

Agendum

Yes, you guessed it. This is the singular of agenda. And yes, its use is somewhat archaic. OED calls it «now rare» and Chambers doesn’t…

Perk

I hate being wrong. Probably no one likes it very much. I know that being wrong is part of the scientific process and that many…

Bespoke

Gulosity

Anthropophagous

Found in Harper Lee’s *Go Set a Watchman*. I don’t want to go in to the context here, but I was almost sorry I looked…

Fettle

Found in the 25 January 2014 edition of *The Economist*.

Complete and utter

I came across this in the first paragraph of an old post and cringed. First, «complete and utter» seems redundant. Perhaps it isn’t always; the two…

Transitive

Leach

Mr Lanier strikes again. When I came across the sentence, «The strangeness is being leached away by the mush-making process» in *You Are Not A…

eschatology

Another one found in Jaron Lanier’s [*You Are Not A Gadget*]([canonical-url:2013/05/26/finding-internets-inner-human]). Lanier is earning points with me for teaching me words. This one in particular…