Friday, December 29, 2006
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Have fun with a new word each day. I'll choose a word. You make up a meaning.
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How to Play:
1. I choose an obscure dictionary word.
2. You invent a wacky meaning and add it as a comment.
3. After a certain time I list the true meaning and choose a winner for the invented meaning.
There are no prizes, just lots of fun!
Remember, children use this site too.
2. You invent a wacky meaning and add it as a comment.
3. After a certain time I list the true meaning and choose a winner for the invented meaning.
There are no prizes, just lots of fun!
Remember, children use this site too.
About Me
- Word Imp
- I am a children's author who has had a handful of books published by trade publishers. They're in book shops and libraries. I've also had a sackful of books published by educational publishers. These are mainly found in schools. I love words and that's why I invented this blog site.
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What I'm writing...
- Picture books in my head...
- Job applications so I can earn actual money.
- Boring stuff for companies to earn actual money.
- This blog
What I'm reading...
- Penina Petersen's Table Tucker
- Rereading my fave - The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
- Mike Gayle's To Do List
- Any good biography
- The dictionary!
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7 comments:
to begin with: what a beautiful soul you are to put gnomes in your friends' gardens! that's SO cool! i might have to steal that idea from you and do that myself.
now for the definition:
Gnomon. N. - a commoner in the gnostic disciple tradition.
Some of the forgotten gospel writers had their own everyday followers and they were known as gnomons. The gnomons were often forgetful, however and proved instrumental in the misplacing of the gospel of Thomas for almost two millenia.
Gnomon is a person who collects gnomes. Some people collect gnomes, some collect unicorns (unicornoms). Most of us collect something.
The gnomon couldn't resist buying another gnome to add to her collection. She had just the perfect place for it.
The gnomons were a radical group that fought for the right to abolish Mondays. Their original name "God! Not Monday Again" was considered too lengthy to write on their placards, so taking a leaf out the the "TGI Friday's!" book they shortened it GNoMons.
Gnomon is a type of greeting used in Brazil. It is a type of pigin English and Spanish. It means good morning man.
Gnomon is what Jamaicans call their version of a snowman at Christmas instead of Frosty the snowman it is golly gee the Gnomon....
Gnomon is an irrational fear of gnomes or trolls. It's not so common now, but it was a real problem back in earlier times.
A gnomon is a grammatical term used to describe a word which almost sounds the same said frontwards and backwards. e.g. gnomon and nomong.
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