WordWacky

Check out this cool furniture.

At nearly 2,000 Euros apiece, this photo is as close as I’ll come to owning any. But it’s a great idea, and a great execution. [via If It's Hip It's Here]

It seems to me that there’s an inverse relationship between the number of letters and/or syllables in a word and how many different meanings it can have. Is this due to our tendency to nickname — that is, to shorten? Seems logical.

I had to look up the word that meant “having many meanings.” Polysemy itself has one. Good word to know, even if only 17 English speakers in the world will understand when you say it out loud.

I haven’t tried that yet. Let’s say it out loud together: “POL-ly-see-me.” Or the less personable version: “puh-LIS-uh-me.”

After Tatiana sent me this cool video of a pop-up book today, I began to ponder the polysemous word, pop (>30 definitions!).

I won’t bore you with all of the definitions of pop. Here are some favorites:

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