Umberto Eco's book on lists is one of those books you wish you had written yourself. In honor of his genius work on a topic I know so very well, here is the beginning of a list I wish I had started long ago:
Favorite words --
glib
scumble
abecedarian
deipnosophist
twee
I used to keep so many lists of good words and I fell out of the habit sometime (somehow!) in graduate school. Back to this. Add it to my New Years Resolutions.
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