I learned two new lovely words today

Nov 05, 2006 12:15

Courtesy of my wonderful husband who sent me a link to an article about the current work going on for the OED, two words I needed in my vocabulary, and now I have them

twiffler: a plate intermediate in size between a dinner plate and a bread plate

mondegreen: a misheard lyric
for instance the real lyrics in Santana's Smooth are:
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queenikins November 6 2006, 20:35:17 UTC
Both of those are great! Not terribly intuitive, though, are they? I'll have to use them very soon or I'll not remember them at all.

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