Jul 31 2008
Big Word Wednesday-Week 16
Welcome to the Thursday edition of Big Word Wednesday. Hopefully this won’t become a habit. One of our resident Wordsmith’s, Tom from Being Michael’s Daddy contributes our first word in this week’s edition of Big Word Wednesday: cromulent. It means fine, acceptable, normal. It is used quite frequently on The Simpsons. Homer used it once, but that doesn’t mean he knew what it meant. He probably thought it was some new kind of donut; or the new villain on Battlestar Galactica. Principal Skinner uses it more often and seems to have a handle on it’s usage. Our second word this week is eukaryote. The definition is about 12 sentences long, but in layman’s terms, they are organisms who have complex cell structures enclosed within membranes. Click here for more info. Why the science slant, you may ask? Well, as some of you may recall, I wrote this post and in it I mentioned that I had a lurker at Iowa State University. She de-lurked and left me a comment and we exchanged a couple of e-mails. In one of those e-mails I suggested that perhaps she should become a blogger. Fast forward a few weeks and Karen has started My Microscopic Life, a blog that will chronicle her adventures as a Microbiology Grad Student. Please stop by and welcome her to the blogosphere! I’m a closet science nerd and even though I did poorly in High School chemistry, it was mainly due to the teacher, not the material. He didn’t like me, I didn’t like him. We had no chemistry whatsoever, thus; no chemistry grade. Well, not a grade that I could take home, anyway. Don’t forget to visit the BWW Home Page for a listing of all of the verbal organisms.
Hurray, you used “cromulent!” My pride is embiggened. I’m surprised the link provided on the word meaning doesn’t mention that the word was made up specifically for The Simpsons. I use it in conversations all the time. nobody ever complains.
(NukeDad) Actually, the wikipedia entry did give the Simpsons some props. For embiggened also.
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These posts remind me of Cliff from Cheers. Seems like the kind of words he would pull out and use incorrectly (which is what I would do if I even tried to pronounce one).
(NukeDad) Funny you should say that, Momo, it’s a little known fact that……..
This being post #98, was very cromulent. I totally love made up words, like Gianormous!
(NukeDad) Me too, I think they’re tripindicular.
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And my wife said that if I stared at the computer too long that my mind would melt or warp. Who says you can’t get educated in cyberspace. I’m a Wednesday (Thursday?) Big Word follower now…
(NukeDad) What can I say? I’m an educator; it’s a calling.
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Wow, now I’m extra famous! Eukaryote is a great word, I work with prokaryotes myself but happen to be quite fond of several eukaryotes. And so you don’t have to read through the likely excessively wordy definition, a prokaryote is a cell that lacks a nucleus and other “cell organs” (organelles, aka the complex cell structures) in its cell goo.
Thanks for the awesome plug for my humble little blog,
Karen
(NukeDad) What she said.
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