I just thought I'd share this Sunday afternoon email I received from my roommate:
Merry Christmas
I, like many of you, have nothing better to do than sit around home and riffle through old things while sequestered under the pretense of "family time" OR maybe that's just me... In an endearing bonding moment between my father and I, he presented me with an old book titled "Mrs. Byren's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words."
Since I know you all check your e-mail I decided to spread some Christmas cheer by means of strange vocabulary.
Xenomancy (zen-o-man"se) n. fortunetelling by studying the first stranger that appears.
Onolatry (o-nol e-tre) n. ass-worship
Flapdragon (flap'drag"en) n. a game of catching candy from burning brandy (we should try this)
Randle (ran'del) w. a nonsensical poem recited by Irish schoolboys as an apology for farting at a friend.
Vinification (vin"i-fi-ka'shen) n. the conversion of fruit juice into alcohol by fermentation (we could try this, but it might turn out poorly)
Wiskerino (hwisk-er-en'o) n. a beard-growing contest (done and done)
Zumbooruk (zum-boo'ruk) n. a small cannon fired from the back of a camel. (why didn't I think of that)
Ciao,
Karen
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