Thoughts - Cold Pasta Bake

[jack]

Pasta bake, clingfilmed and fridged, is still good the next day. In fact, very good -- I don't know about anyone else, but I do like my cooking, which is exceptionally staggeringly serendipitous. (I should cook it every weekend and eat it up through the week.)

Speaking of "serendipitous," how do people cope when they don't have a university sponsored subscription to OED.com? Do you pay cahs£money for a dictionary? Just muddle through guessing which vowels are which?

Speaking of which, finally another word of a day that's interesing. "Callipygous" means "having beautifully proportioned buttocks"; I intended to use it when buying peaches.

The other one I like if "lucubrate." As I've said before, I find it absurd that 'lucubrate' being just one word, can translate as working hard, pedanticly, pretentiously, perspiringly, or not, by night or candlelight!

Comments

[mair_in_grenderich]

I also have a couple of real printed dictionaries. But i have had them a while, so i guess they won't have any modern words like "blogging" in. I rarely use them these days --- just not portable enough, and there's always t'interweb. But I kind of like the feel of them.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Funny, I never have been emotionally attached to physical dictionaries, however much I may love with all my heart some novels. I guess it's because I never used to care about spelling, and by the time I did, I was using dictionary.com.

[mair_in_grenderich]

I don't have them for spelling, I assume I can spell ;) I use(d) them for looking up definitions, looking for new words, words for scrabble or crosswords... playing with words :)