Chrysti The Wordsmith: Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary

Greetings and welcome to Christie the wordsmith. Every dedicated verb of war needs to spend some time in Mrs Burns a dictionary. The cover blurb calls it a collection of 6000 of the weirdest words in the English language. Mrs Byrne aka Josephus Heifetz editor of Mrs Burns dictionary is a compulsive word collector who spent ten years snooping through specialized dictionaries and other arcane texts for rare and wonderful lexical oddities. Here's just a sampling from the pages of Mrs. Burns dictionary sero Mancy is fortune telling with melted wax dropped in water lukewarm Elena's is an adjective that means pertaining to a light complection with dark hair and eyes. If you love forests your nym awful us. If you have an inordinate affection for funerals your Atef a file lurker Larry is the act of poisoning water to troat. TR O A T is to cry out like a riding buck. Do you like to say the word hell over and over. If you do says page 88 you suffer Hey dry Herriot

Mrs Burns dictionary even has a word for those who have been divorced five times Penta peptic. Of course these represent just a fraction of the lexical Archana In this collection of 6000 of the weirdest words in the English language. Mrs. Burns dictionary is a playground for Logo leps that's the term that means word maniac. From Montana State University in Bozeman. I'm Christie the wordsmith. CHRISTIE The wordsmith is sponsored by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Zoot enterprises a high tech firm in Bozeman Montana offering challenging careers and innovative solutions for the financial services industry. Pseud web dot com.