There is a site I recently found on the internet.  It has named itself “Word Dynamo.”

I had a little fun on this discovery.  You answer some vocabulary questions, and it calculates the number of words you know.  I had to guess on a couple of the questions.  I don’t know what the average number of words in a vocabulary is….. for the typical American.  I bet I use more dot, dot, dots than anyone else.

But when the Word Dynamo figured me out, it calculated that I knew 47,563 words.   The second time around, I measured in at 50,018 words.   And there you have it.
http://dynamo.dictionary.com/

I am not sure if this is accurate or not, but I always feel like I stick to about the same 1,000 words or so.

I seem to use them over and over and over again.  Especially here, in Project 16,010.

So tonight.  A few new words.  Selected at random.

Bailiwick: An area of interest, activity or authority.
Animadversion: A harsh critical remark.
Ribaldry: Behavior inclining towards indelicacy.
Euphony: Bearable or agreeable sound.
Foppotee: A simpleton.
Sycophant: A person who tries to gain an advantage by pleasing someone.
Gnathonize: To flatter someone.

Tonight, I feel just like a foppotee.  I heard an animadversion, and it came from a seeming sychophant, who usually attempts to gnathonize.  Low and behold, it seemed to be an act of ribaldry.  Trust me.  I am a bailiwick on this.

There.  Finally at long last.
I said it.

“If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things” – Henry David Thoreau