Today's word is surprise

Today's word is cover

Today's word is inscrutable

Today's word is better

Today's word is name

Today's word is done

Today's word is description

Today's word is house

Today's word is warning

Today's word is job

Today's word is throw

Today's word is wait

Today's word is only

Today's word is nine

Q&A!

Artist, film-fan and witty gentleman Paul D. Selman has interviewed me about My First Dictionary on his blog.

Today's word is almost

Today's word is soundly

Today's word is remember

Today's word is forget

Today's word is variety

Today's word is consult

Today's word is nostalgic

Today's word is reasonable

Today's word is liven

Today's word is burden

You can’t argue with democracy: Burden won last Sunday’s lexical face-off with a cumbersome 76% of votes to pocket’s 12%, meaning it’s the former that’s officially added to the dictionary today. What lessons can we take from this? Well, you apparently prefer vicious humour over vulgar, cruelty to crassness, and swearing definitely isn’t the way to go. How highbrow... I’m impressed!

There’s no pleasing 5% of people, who didn’t care for either of the suggested definitions. Meanwhile, another 5% put down their box-cutters long enough to point out that they were too busy cutting themselves to care. Now that’s dedication. Keep up the good work, self-harmers... Someone’s just bound to notice you soon! Thanks to everyone who voted. Regular dictionary service resumes tomorrow.

Today's word is porch

Today's word is sulk

Poll!

Today’s word must be “indecision” (although I’m not sure). In any case, I’ve ended up with two different definitions to accompany the same illustration – and I’d like you to vote, if you will, for the one you think should go into the dictionary. Use the poll to the right, which closes on Friday, when the losing word will disappear into a wormhole, never to be seen again.*

*Until next month, when I run out of ideas and probably have to reuse it.

Today's word is propitious

Today's word is puppy