Odds and Ends

Pit’s complete waste of bandwidth

sesquipedalianism

from the Latin, literally “using foot-and-a-half-long words”; found in: The New York Times

April 12, 2008 Posted by Pit | language notes | , , , | No Comments Yet

snipergate

Hillary Clinton’s “blunder” in retelling the story of her landing in Tuzla/Bosnia in 1996. Cf. The Washington Post

April 4, 2008 Posted by Pit | language notes | , , , , , | 1 Comment

coprolites

= fossilized faeces, cf. BBC

April 4, 2008 Posted by Pit | language notes | , , , , , | No Comments Yet

What a pile of shit can tell you:

Fossilised faeces found in a US cave may help solve the riddle of when and how humans came to the Americas.” cf. BBC

I keep wondering if this might even solve the riddle WHY people came to the Americas. And what a remarkable imprint they left!

April 4, 2008 Posted by Pit | miscellaneous, notes and musings from a big country | , , , , , , , | No Comments Yet