Balls and Walnuts
more than you ever wanted to know
Gotta be careful about those apps
Just popped $20 on an Oxford English Dictionary and Thesaurus for my smart phone, and already I’m wondering if I wasted my money.True, it has gallimaufry (a confused medley of things), phyla (taxonomic class below Kingdom in hierarchy), and howdah (canopied saddle for an elephant), but I could not find merkin (a pubic wig), garron (a low quality horse), or stannous (relating to or containing tin). WTF? It’s not a simple lack of specialty jargon — stannous may not be in there, but ferric (same kind of word, this time referring to iron) is.
I’m having a hard time thinking up words to challenge my OED. Feed me, folks, and I’ll report back on the results. So far I would have to say I’m disappointed — I suspect there were plenty of free dictionaries which would have performed as well as this one. Perhaps if I can find enough obscure words in my OED, I won’t feel like such a dope . . . and in the process, we’ll get some fun words to toss around.
D.
http://www.savethewords.org/
Basically anything there.