Attention logophiles. Looking for some new, obscure words to drop into your conversation? Have you ever needed to look up words like brompnea, quincunx, or kerfuffle? Are you the kind of person who would write a piece of music entitled Triskaidekaphile? Then have I got a site for you!

The site is called World Wide Words. It is written by Michael Quinion, who writes books about words and provides citations and advice for the Oxford English Dictionary. He focuses on new words that have entered the English language and older words that are dropping out of use.

So, if you would like your vocabulary to be cutting edge or so obscure and archaic it makes your eyes water, absquatulate from your couch and head on over to his site. You’ll read a few new words, add them to your patois, and suddenly Bob’s your uncle!

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