Word of the Day~Jeremiad

Jeremiah got a kick out of the Word of the Day, today. He loves to write and read and even said he thinks that going to college to become a Professor of Philosphy sounds way cool. So this word could not be more fitting!
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jeremiad \jair-uh-MY-uhd\, noun:
A tale of sorrow, disappointment, or complaint; a doleful story; also, a dolorous or angry tirade.

This age in which leisure and letters were gilded with commerce did not see the decline and fall of art, despite the jeremiads of such artists as William Blake ('Where any view of money exists,' he prophesied, 'art cannot be carried on').
-- Roy Porter, English Society in the Eighteenth Century

Johnson's jeremiad against what he sees as American imperialism and militarism exhaustively catalogs decades of U.S. military misdeeds
-- Stan Crock, review of The Sorrows of Empire by Chalmers Johnson, Business Week, February 2, 2004

Economics ministers in general were taken aback when a recent World Bank report -- after a year of jeremiads -- suggested the crisis was being exaggerated
-- Lance Castle, "The economic crisis revisited", Jakarta Post, April 1, 1999

Jeremiad comes from French jérémiade, after Jérémie, Jeremiah, the prophet.

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Triskaidekaphobia

triskaidekaphobia \tris-ky-dek-uh-FOH-bee-uh\, noun:

A morbid fear of the number 13 or the date Friday the 13th.

Happy Friday the 13th!!!

Pettifogger~Word of the Day

pettifogger \PET-ee-fog-ur\, noun:
1. A petty, unscrupulous lawyer; a shyster.
2. A person who quibbles over trivia.

Today's word made me grin!
The defendant's attorneys that we are
dealing with right now fit this description
to a "T"! Our case is simply about
a rear-end collision, yet they are going after
all sorts of trivial tidbits pertaining to
my family's character, including our religion,
employment, previous health problems, choice of
education(homeschooling), and so many other
ridiculous things.

And our case is simply about one irresponsible
driver who while reading a map, not looking at the road,
and driving too fast for conditions.....rammed into the
back of the vehicle that my sons and husband were in, and
then forcing that vehicle into the path of an 18 wheeler.

And somehow, someway th ose defendant laywers are trying
to find something to pin on us, so that they can escape
their responsibility in paying for the costs of the
injuries, hardships and medical bills that all of this
has caused our family.

pettifogger \PET-ee-fog-ur\, noun:
1. A petty, unscrupulous lawyer; a shyster.
2. A person who quibbles over trivia.

Bricolage

I've enjoyed doing a daily check of "The Word of the Day" tag that I posted on the side of my Blog (below my tiger trio). Sometimes the word just cracks me up, like 'flibbertigibbet', some make me say, "Ah!", but I always enjoy adding to my vocabulary.

Yesterday's Word of the Day was "Bricolage", which means to construct something from available materials.
Of course, I had to tell my sons about this word and we got a laugh that they could use the word on their college applications. They could write, "I have extensive experience in automatic-binding bricolage of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene(ABS)materials......."

Of course, even though the word bricolage sounds so impressive, they would rather just be called "Bric-Masters' (mispelled on purpose, hehe)

By the way, did you know that:
*The Lego Group produces over 300 million miniature tires each year - more than any other tire manufacturer in the world.

*Six eight-stud Lego bricks of the same color can be put together in 915,103,765 ways, and just three bricks of the same color offer 1,560 combinations.

This is the airport set that Jackson received for Christmas (see he's performing aeronautic bricolage! hehe)
I spent several hours on the floor today acting as "BrickMaster's Assistant" sorting through almost 900 Lego pieces and handing the Brick Masters their requested materials. (And I did it with pure love, because afterwards my 40 year old body needed to be pried off of the floor with a crow bar! )
Bricolage activities
To tired after all that 'bricolaging'. But we got lots accomplished today and night. 900 plastic bricks and all those itty-bitty, oddly shaped plastic pieces is a lot!

Flibbertigibbet \FLIB-ur-tee-jib-it\

BWAHAHAHA! Today's "Word of The Day" just tickles my funny bone!

flibbertigibbet \FLIB-ur-tee-jib-itflibbertigibbet \FLIB-ur-tee-jib-it
It just feels good saying it...feeling those letters roll and jumble off the tongue!

flibbertigibbet \FLIB-ur-tee-jib-itflibbertigibbet \FLIB-ur-tee-jib-it
And the word actually relates to the silliness of endless chatter. How appropriate!

flibbertigibbet \FLIB-ur-tee-jib-it
Sounds like the name of a Hobbit or a Dwarf! Too fun!