[Tim Y]

I subscribe to A Word a Day so that my vocabulary will not shrink over time. Vocabulary is like a muscle: it takes exercise to keep it healthy.

First...Ever think that there SHOULD be words for various thing we encounter in our lives? PETRICHOR ....The smell that occurs directly after it starts to rain. Coined by two geologists who noted that certain oils leech out from rocks but soon that fragrance disappears with the dilution of all the rain water.

Ultracrepidarian....A handy word to use when talking to rookies