July 18, 2004

For Abhijit, the Doubter

Abhijit thought that I was inventing words last class period, specifically the word verbiage. Since I am an enormously petty man with just as enormous amounts of time on my hands, I looked up his word and found this:

verbage
/ver'b*j/ A deliberate misspelling and
mispronunciation of verbiage that assimilates it to the word
"garbage". Compare content-free. More pejorative than
"verbiage".

Since I think Abhijit thinks I can't pronounce words (which is true, but not in this case), Encarta's dictionary pronounces it for you:

Pronunciation of "Verbiage"

On a completely unrelated note, did anyone hear about Bobby Fischer? Weird stuff.

Posted by john6507 at July 18, 2004 12:40 PM
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